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company (191931 Before World War I, W.O. TYLER had Source Products Your Way been in partnership with his brother H.M. Bentley selling French Source Products Your Way DFP cars, but he had always wanted to design and Source Products Your Way build his own range of cars bearing his name. In Source Products Your Way August 1919, Bentley Motors Ltd. was registered, and a chassis Source Products Your Way with dummy engine was exhibited at the London Motor Show Source Products Your Way in October of that year.[1] An engine was built and Source Products Your Way running by December, and orders were taken for deliveries starting Source Products Your Way in June 1920; however, development took longer than estimated, and Source Products Your Way the first cars were not ready until September 1921.[1 It Source Products Your Way was on a visit to the DFP factory in 1913 Source Products Your Way that W.O. noticed an aluminium paperweight and had the inspired Source Products Your Way idea of using the lightweight metal instead of cast iron Source Products Your Way to make engine pistons. The first Bentley aluminium pistons went Source Products Your Way into service in aero engines for the Sopwith Camel, in Source Products Your Way service during the Great War The company was always underfunded, Source Products Your Way and Bentley turned to millionaire Woolf Barnato for help in Source Products Your Way 1925. As part of a refinancing deal, which resulted in Source Products Your Way his effectively owning the company, Barnato became chairman. A great Source Products Your Way deal of 
Barnato's fortune was devoted to keeping Bentley afloat, Source Products Your Way but the Great Depression destroyed demand for the company's expensive Source Products Your Way products, and it was finally sold to Rolls-Royce in 1931 Source Products Your Way [edit] The Bentley Boy A group of wealthy British motorists Source Products Your Way known as the "Bentley Boys" (Woolf Barnato, Sir Henry Birkin, Source Products Your Way steeplechaser George Duller, aviator Glen Kidston, automotive journalist S.C.H. "Sammy" Source Products Your Way Davis, and Dr. Dudley Benjafield among them) kept the marque's Source Products Your Way reputation for high performance alive. Thanks to the dedication to Source Products Your Way serious racing of this group, the company, located at Cricklewood, Source Products Your Way north London, was noted for its four consecutive victories at Source Products Your Way the 24 hours of Le Mans from 1927 to 1930. Source Products Your Way Their greatest competitor at the time, Bugattiwhose lightweight, elegant, but Source Products Your Way fragile creations contrasted with the Bentley's rugged reliability and durabilityreferred Source Products Your Way to them as "the world's fastest lorries." In March 1930, Source Products Your Way during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised the stakes Source Products Your Way on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced and Source Products Your Way beat Le Train Bleu for the first time, to better Source Products Your Way that record with his 61/2-litre Bentley Speed Six on a Source Products Your Way bet of ?100. He drove against the train from Cannes Source Products Your Way to Calais, then by ferry to Dover and finally London, Source Products Your Way travelling on public highways, and won; the H.J. Mulliner-bodied formal Source Products Your Way saloon he drove during the race as well as a Source Products Your Way streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupe" by Gurney Nutting he took delivery Source Products Your Way of on 21 May 1930 became known as the "Blue Source Products Your Way Train Bentleys"; the latter is regularly mistaken for (or erroneously Source Products Your Way referred to) as being the car that raced the Blue Source Products Your Way Train, while in fact Barnato named it in memory of Source Products Your Way his race.[2][3 [edit] Car model The original model was the Source Products Your Way 3-litre, but as customers put heavier bodies on the chassis, Source Products Your Way a larger 41/2-litre model followed. Perhaps the most iconic model Source Products Your Way of the period is the 41/2-litre "Blower Bentley," with its Source Products Your Way distinctive supercharger projecting forward from the bottom of the grille. Source Products Your Way Uncharacteristically fragile for a Bentley, it was not the racing Source Products Your Way workhorse the 61/2-litre was. It became famous in popular media Source Products Your Way as the vehicle of James Bond in the original novels, Source Products Your Way but not in film; however, John Steed, in the television Source Products Your Way series The Avengers, did drive a Bentley Source Products Your Way * 192129 3-litr * 192630 Source Products Your Way 41/2-litre & "Blower Bentley * 192630 Source Products Your Way 61/2-litr * 192830 61/2-litre Speed Si Source Products Your Way * 193031 8-litr Source Products Your Way * 1931 4-litr [edit] Bentleys of the Rolls-Royce era Source Products Your Way (193198 1935 Bentley 31/2-litre Cabriolet S1 Continental Fastback Coupe' with Source Products Your Way Mulliner bodywork 1952 Bentley R Type: an evolution of the Source Products Your Way Mark VI, which was the first Bentley available from the Source Products Your Way manufacturer with a standard body Rare left-hand drive 1963 Bentley Source Products Your Way S3 Continental 1980 Bentley Mulsanne Rolls-Royce had bought Bentley secretly Source Products Your Way using a company named the British Central Equitable Trust; not Source Products Your Way even Bentley himself knew the true identity of the purchaser Source Products Your Way until the deal was completed.[1] A new company, wholly owned Source Products Your Way by Rolls-Royce, was formed as Bentley Motors (1931) Ltd. As Source Products Your Way W.O. Bentley was little more than an employee, he left Source Products Your Way to join Lagonda in 1935 when his contract was up Source Products Your Way for renewal. The Cricklewood factory was closed and sold, and Source Products Your Way production moved to the Rolls-Royce works in Derby When a Source Products Your Way new Bentley car appeared in 1933, the 31/2-litre, it was Source Products Your Way a sporting variant of the Rolls-Royce 20/25and although disappointing some Source Products Your Way traditional customers, it was well-received by many others. Even Bentley Source Products Your Way himself was reported as saying, "Taking all things into consideration, Source Products Your Way I would rather own this Bentley than any other car Source Products Your Way produced under that name."[1 After World War II, production of Source Products Your Way Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars was moved to an ex-wartime engine Source Products Your Way factory in Crewe, Cheshire. Bentleys increasingly became Rolls-Royces without the Source Products Your Way distinctive grilles and with a lower price tag, and by Source Products Your Way the 1970s and early 1980s, sales had fallen badly, with Source Products Your Way at one time less than 5% of production carrying the Source Products Your Way Bentley badge.[1 The parent company failed in 1970 following problems Source Products Your Way with aero engine development, and the car division was floated Source Products Your Way off to become Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. and remained independent until Source Products Your Way bought by Vickers in August 1980 In the 1980s, Bentley Source Products Your Way became a separate, high-performance car line once again, typified by Source Products Your Way the 1980 Mulsanne. The new sporting image created a new Source Products Your Way interest in the name and sales as a proportion of Source Products Your Way output started to rise. In 1986, the Rolls-Royce:Bentley ratio was Source Products Your Way 60:40, and in 1991, it was 50:50.[1 The Bentley factory Source Products Your Way in Crewe, Cheshire, is still known in the town by Source Products Your Way the name "Royce's." For more on Bentley Motors from 1931 Source Products Your Way to 1998, see Rolls-Royce and Rolls-Royce Motors [edit] Car model Source Products Your Way * 193337 31/2-litr Source Products Your Way o 193639 41/4-litr Source Products Your Way * 193941 Mark Source Products Your Way o 1939 Source Products Your Way Mark * 194652 Mark V Source Products Your Way Auto Loan Companies * 195255 R Type and Continenta Source Products Your Way * 195559 S1 and Continenta Source Products Your Way * 195962 S2 and Continenta Source Products Your Way * 196265 S3 and Continenta Source Products Your Way * 196580 T-serie Source Products Your Way o 196577 T Source Products Your Way o 197780 T Source Products Your Way * 197184 Cornich Source Products Your Way o 198495 Continental Source Products Your Way convertibl Source Products Your Way + 199295 Source Products Your Way Continental Turb * 197586 Camargu Source Products Your Way * 198087 Mulsann Source Products Your Way o 198488 Mulsanne L Source Products Your Way limousin Source Products Your Way o 198285 Mulsanne Turb Source Products Your Way o 198792 Mulsanne Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way o 198492 Eight lower-priced mode Source Products Your Way o 198595 Turbo R Source Products Your Way turbocharged performance versio Source Products Your Way o 19912002 Continental R turbocharged Source Products Your Way 2-door mode Source Products Your Way + 19992003 Source Products Your Way Continental R Mulliner performance mode Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way + 199495 Continental S intercoole Source Products Your Way o 199298 Source Products Your Way Brooklands improved Eigh Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way + 199698 Brooklands R performance Brookland Source Products Your Way o 199495 Turbo Source Products Your Way S limited-edition sports mode Source Products Your Way o 199597 Turbo R Source Products Your Way updated Turbo Source Products Your Way o 199597 Turbo RL updated Turbo Source Products Your Way R LWB (Long Wheel Base Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way + 1996 Turbo R Sport limited-edition sports mode Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way o 19952003 Azure convertible Continental Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way + 19992002 Azure Mulliner New Audi performance mode Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way o 19962002 Continental T short-wheelbase performance mode Source Products Your Way Source Products Your Way + 1999 Continental T Mulliner Source Products Your Way firmer suspensio Source Products Your Way o 199798 Bentley Turbo RT replacement for Source Products Your Way the Turbo R [edit] Volkswagen Group ownershi 2003 Bentley Azure Source Products Your Way Mulliner, Final Series In 1998, Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors were Source Products Your Way purchased from Vickers (the owner since 1980) by Volkswagen Group Source Products Your Way for ?430 million, following a bidding war with BMW. BMW Source Products Your Way had recently started supplying components for the new range of Source Products Your Way Rolls and Bentley cars, notably V8 engines for the Bentley Source Products Your Way Arnage and V12 engines for the Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph. VW Source Products Your Way believed that the Rolls-Royce name was included in the purchase, Source Products Your Way when in fact it belonged to Rolls-Royce plc, the aero-engine Source Products Your Way company, and was used by the automobile division under licence. Source Products Your Way It also emerged that BMW's aeronautical division had a joint Source Products Your Way venture agreement with Rolls-Royce plc and that the German company Source Products Your Way was able to terminate its supply deal with Rolls-Royce with Source Products Your Way 12 months' notice, which would not be enough time for Source Products Your Way VW to re-engineer the cars BMW and Volkswagen entered into Source Products Your Way negotiations, and an agreement was reached whereby Volkswagen would manufacture Source Products Your Way both Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars until the end of 2002, Source Products Your Way licensing the name from Rolls-Royce plc; on 1 January 2003, Source Products Your Way the right to build Rolls-Royce cars would transfer to BMW. Source Products Your Way BMW licensed the brand from Rolls-Royce plc and paid ?40 Source Products Your Way million to VW, but the deal did not include any Source Products Your Way manufacturing facilities, staff, or intellectual property on present or future Source Products Your Way models. BMW also agreed to continue its supply agreements, which Source Products Your Way gave VW the time it needed to reduce its reliance Source Products Your Way on BMW as a supplier. Bentley reintroduced the venerable Rolls-Royce Source Products Your Way V8 engine into the Arnage, initially as an additional model, Source Products Your Way and all BMW engine supply ended in Free Auto Price Quotes 2003 with the Source Products Your Way end of Silver Seraph production [edit] Modern Bentley The current Source Products Your Way Bentley lineup (from left): Flying Spur, Continental GT, and Arnage Source Products Your Way Queen Elizabeth II's Bentley State Limousine In 2002, Bentley presented Source Products Your Way Queen Elizabeth II with an official State Limousine to celebrate Source Products Your Way the Golden Jubilee. In 2003, Bentley's 2-door convertible, the Bentley Source Products Your Way Azure, ceased production, and the company introduced the Bentley Continental Source Products Your Way GT, a large luxury coupe. The car is powered by Source Products Your Way a W-12 engine built in Crewe Demand had been so Source Products Your Way great that the factory at Crewe was unable to meet Source Products Your Way orders despite an installed capacity of approximately 9500 vehicles per Source Products Your Way year; there was a waiting list of over a year Source Products Your Way for new cars to be delivered. Consequently, part of the Source Products Your Way production of the new Flying Spur, a four-door version of Source Products Your Way the Continental GT, was assigned to the Transparent Factory, where Source Products Your Way the VW Phaeton luxury car is also assembled. This arrangement Source Products Your Way ceased at the end of 2006 after around 1000 cars, Source Products Your Way now highly sought after. All car production reverted to the Source Products Your Way Crewe plant In April 2005, Bentley confirmed plans to produce Source Products Your Way a 4-seat convertible modelthe Azure, derived from the Arnage Drophead Source Products Your Way Coupe prototypeat Crewe beginning in 2006. By the autumn of Source Products Your Way 2005, the convertible version of the successful Continental GT, the Source Products Your Way Continental GTC, was also presented. These two models were successfully Source Products Your Way launched in late 2006 A limited run of a Zagato Source Products Your Way modified GT was also announced in March 2008, dubbed "GTZ. Source Products Your Way A new Bentley version of the Bentley Continental was introduced Source Products Your Way at the 2009 Geneva Auto Show: The Continental Supersports. This Source Products Your Way new Bentley is a supercar combining extreme power with pioneering Source Products Your Way FlexFuel technology (environmentally friendly). A muscular two-seater with distinctive exterior Source Products Your Way and interior styling that is unmistakably Bentley in its design, Source Products Your Way craftsmanship and performance. The engine derived from Bentleys current W12 Source Products Your Way power unit was re-engineered, re-tuned and re-mapped to achieve phenomenal Source Products Your Way supercar potency. 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds (0-100km/h 3.9 seconds). 621bhp Source Products Your Way (463kW/630PS). 800Nm (590 Ib ft) @ 2000 to 4500rpm. The Source Products Your Way Continental Supersports is the fastest, most powerful production Bentley ever. Source Products Your Way [4 Bentley sales continued to increase, and in 2005, 8,627 Source Products Your Way were sold worldwide, 3,654 of which were sold in the Source Products Your Way United States. In 2007, with sales of 10,014, the 10,000 Source Products Your Way cars-per-year threshold was broken for the first time in the Source Products Your Way company's history. For 2007, a record profit of 155 million Source Products Your Way was also announced.[5 * 1998 Source Products Your Way Arnage saloo * 1999 Hunaudieres Source Products Your Way Concep * 2002 State Limousin Source Products Your Way * 2003 Continental GT coupe Source Products Your Way * 2005 Continental Flying Spur Source Products Your Way saloo * 2006 Azure convertibl Source Products Your Way * 2006 Continental GT convertibl Source Products Your Way * 2007 Continental GT Speed Source Products Your Way coupe * 2008 Bentley Brooklands Source Products Your Way coupe * 2008 Bentley Continental Source Products Your Way Flying Spur Speed saloo * 2009 Source Products Your Way Continental GTC Spee * 2009 Source Products Your Way Azure * 2009 Source Products Your Way Arnage saloon, Final Serie * 2009 Source Products Your Way Continental Supersport The current board of management consists of Source Products Your Way Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen, Chairman and Chief Executive; Dr. Ulrich Eichhorn, Source Products Your Way Engineering; Stuart J. McCullough, Sales & Marketing; Douglas G. Dickson, Source Products Your Way Manufacturing; Christine A. Gaskell, Personnel; and Juergen Hoffmann, Finance [edit] Source Products Your Way Current Bentley racin In 200103, the Bentley Speed 8 enjoyed Source Products Your Way a successful racing streak in the Le Mans series [edit] Source Products Your Way Future car Since Bentley's induction into the VW Group, rumours Source Products Your Way of an SUV-style vehicle have repeatedly surfaced. These have been Source Products Your Way shot down by Bentley employees on the basis that the Source Products Your Way idea would not fit into their future plans and also Source Products Your Way the fact that the manufacturing facilities are already running at Source Products Your Way full capacity Borrowing hybrid technology developed by Bentley owners, VW Source Products Your Way Group is another focal point as the trend towards hybrid Source Products Your Way cars is expanding year on year The all-new Grand Bentley Source Products Your Way The "all new grand Bentley" that will be replacing the Source Products Your Way Final Series Arnage. To date, only a teaser image is Source Products Your Way available from Bentley. [6] The car is likely to be Source Products Your Way revealed next summer, most likely in August at the Pebble Source Products Your Way Beach Concours d'E'le'gance in the USA. The new car is Source Products Your Way expected for the 2010 model year and is said to Source Products Your Way take styling cues from the Bentley cues from the Bentley Source Products Your Way State