Bentley
Founded by W.O. Bentley in Cricklewood in 1919 and forged at Le Mans — five wins between 1924 and 1930, delivered by the gentleman-racer Bentley Boys — Bentley has embodied effortless British performance for over a century. The Rolls-Royce takeover of 1931 began seven decades of shared engineering, ended by the 1998 split that took Bentley into Volkswagen Group ownership and produced the Continental GT, the car that rebuilt the company. Today it builds the Continental GT in hybrid form, the Flying Spur and the Bentayga at Crewe, while the collector market runs deep at both ends: Cricklewood-era W.O. cars and Blower continuations at the summit, and the R-Type Continental, S-series and Turbo R eras each commanding devoted followings.
Bentley 3 Litre
W.O. Bentley's founding car — the four-cylinder sports tourer that won Le Mans in 1924 and 1927 and established the marque.
Bentley Speed Six
W.O.'s favourite — the six-cylinder Bentley that won Le Mans in 1929 and 1930 and outshone the Blower on the track.
Bentley 4½ Litre Blower
Tim Birkin's supercharged 4½ Litre — the most famous Bentley of the vintage era and a Le Mans icon despite never winning outright.
Bentley 8 Litre
W.O. Bentley's last and grandest car — a 100 mph luxury chassis that intended to beat Rolls-Royce on its own ground.
Bentley S1 Continental
The last of the coachbuilt post-war Bentleys — the 4.9-litre inline-six 'C-series' Continental on the S-series chassis, bodied to individual order by H.J. Mulliner, Park Ward, James Young and (rarely) the great Continental European carrossiers.
Bentley Turbo R
The car that turned Bentley back into a driver's marque.
Bentley Continental R
The first two-door Bentley in six decades — and the last hand-built car from Crewe.
Bentley Continental GT (Mk1)
Twin-turbo W12 grand tourer — the first Volkswagen-era Bentley and the founding modern Continental.
Bentley Mulliner Bacalar
The first coachbuilt Bentley in over eighty years — a two-seat, roofless, W12 barchetta built by Mulliner in a run of just twelve cars.
Bentley Mulliner Batur
The second modern coachbuilt Bentley — an 18-car W12 coupé plus a subsequent Convertible, and the last hurrah for the twin-turbo W12 at Crewe.