Maison 63 of 100 · Automotive
Bentley
The reading
WO Bentley’s race cars became Crewe’s drawing rooms. Mulliner personalization, hand-stitched hides, a W12 that is being retired with ceremony. The grand tourer for people who found the Phantom too formal.
The house
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1919
- Atelier
- Automotive
- Ownership
- VW Group
- Signature
- Continental GT / Flying Spur / Bentayga
- Register note
- Crewe coachwork This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Its place in the register, counted
Of the fifteen houses filed under Automotive, it is the 5th. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 48th of a hundred. The register files nine maisons to the United Kingdom, the same number it files to the United States, and this is one of them. It is one of three Volkswagen Group houses in this register: Porsche and Lamborghini. The Automotive room draws on seven countries in this register, the United Kingdom among them. No figure is attributed to it here. Seventy-three of the hundred are in the same position, by rule and not by oversight.