Bentley

Bentley is another of the marks of automobiles of I beat prestige and mainly deluxe dedicated to a very concrete market, it dates of 1919 and it arrives later to our days many ups and downs. We find model as the Arnage or the Azure.

Bentley Motors Limited is a factory of automobiles of great luxury domiciled in Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 3PL, England.

The mark was founded in 1919 by the English designer Walter Owen Bentley that manufactured deluxe sport automobiles and it won five times the 24 Hours of Him Mans among the two world wars. The Great Depression of 1929 took to the crash to Bentley, but the mark of the Winged B (emblem created by the industrial designer Gordon Crosby) it was acquired by Rolls-Royce in 1931. From 1998 it belongs to the Group VW.

In the 2004 the British mark of great luxury Bentley manufactured 7,686 automobiles, a remarkable rise with regard to the 1,017 of the 2003. With these numbers it overcomes the combined sales of their two more important rivals: Rolls-Royce and Maybach. The success of Bentley has been to point to the disregarded segment that there were among the ends of range of the deluxe vehicles of series (Mercedes Benz Class S, BMW Series 7, Audi A8 and similar) whose prices reach its maximum around the US $100 thousand, and the made scarce heights in that the Rolls-Royce and Maybach move whose prices begin in US $300 thousand. His cornet in this tendency has been the Continental GT coupe with a price among US $150 and 200 thousand. He/she hopes to reinforce this position with the new Continental Flying Spur, a derivative sedan of the GT that will be sold by some US $170,000.

The Bentley Motor Co. it belongs to the Group Volkswagen that has invested 400 million Eurus in renovating the factory of Crewe, England, where the ranges are manufactured: Continental (coupé, sedan and convertible) with motor W12 of 6.0 liters (318 maxim km/h in the coupé); the sedan Arnage (250 km/h) of bigger and more luxurious chassis and a basic price of 250,000 Eurus; and the new convertible Azure, derivate of the Arnage.