Everyone knows Bentley as a high-end luxurious GT, sedan, or SUV, with automobiles just like the Continental, the Flying Spur, and the Bentayga, however Bentley has been round for 101 years, and whereas at a sure second in historical past, a Bentley was roughly a rebadged Rolls Royce, the advertising and marketing behind that concept was that you’ve got a driver should you personal a Rolls Royce whilst you drive a Bentley your self, and customarily talking the Bentley counterpart was a extra sporty model of the Rolls Royce model, however issues have modified significantly over time, Rolls Royce being acquired by BMW AG whereas Bentley went to Volkswagen Group.
Traditionally a Rolls Royce can be marketed in direction of a extra ‘aged’ group of individuals which were rich for generations, whereas a Bentley can be extra acceptable for the youthful ‘new cash’ people, however that additionally has modified with the Rolls Royce Ghost and Culinnan, a lot of that are being owned by so-called new cash now too, and whilst you can spec a Bentley Flying Spur or Bentayga as a really traditional magnificence, you may get very sporty with carbon fiber and the likes, however what was Bentley like 100 years in the past?
Let’s check out this 21-minute overview of the historical past of Bentley: