Great Cars: BENTLEY

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A long time ago, Bentleys were racing cars. In 1930, a Bentley won the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race for the fifth time, roaring along at 130 miles an hour and overtaking a Mercedes to claim victory. The next year, Bentley was absorbed by Rolls-Royce, which eventually made the Bentley into a Rolls with a different grille. But the memory of those distant glory years never faded, and a few years ago Bentley began reaching for its own identity as a sort of Rolls sports sedan. With stiffened suspensions, more horsepower, more rubber and a few gentlemanly sporting cues -- what Bentley literature called ''the spirit of the racetrack,'' it sought to lure the well heeled who wanted a little fun. While it didn’t lure too many out of their Ferraris, Bentley did attract a few Hip Hop stars. Now in the hands of BMW, the world will see if Bentley can once again evoke the spirit of the cars that won Le Mans five times and then carted the rich and titled for seven decades. It’s looking promising - in 2003, Bentley came in first at LeMans.
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@wilkinstokarev5705 Жыл бұрын

Bentleys never ceases to amaze me

@jaideeprai230 3 жыл бұрын

Early generation Bentleys define quality, technology, panache, refinement, endurance, engineering design & excellence. Most beautiful & appealing automotive works of art & technology. ✊✊✊✊

@SquillyMon 4 жыл бұрын

Could you IMAGINE being part of the "Bentley Boys" racing, partying...living. That must have been some good times indeed.

@knut-hinrichqwalter2463 4 жыл бұрын

But You had to be titled or very rich or both !

@muhammadalkreem9566 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping the spirit of Bentley Alive🥊

@yl9154 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting this Great Cars series on-line!

@BoopShooBee 5 жыл бұрын

The only thing I like about luxury cars is that their production and preservation gives talented craftsman a chance to show off their skills.

@tylernail2146 6 ай бұрын

I wish the successful everyday man could own one and not just the Uber rich

@egmjag 3 жыл бұрын

I was more familiar with the Rolls Royce brand in the 70s than Bentley. I still have a Rolls Royce Dinkey toy that I used to admire as a kid. I became more familiar with Bentley in the 80s after reading about Karl Lagerfeld's collections of Bentleys that he had in each of his mansions. That's when it first piqued my interest. I then sat in one about 25 years ago at a car show. About 7 years ago as I was walking along a busy street, I heard the roar of two engines that sounded unfamiliar and unlike typical sports cars. I turned around and saw two Bentleys racing each other in Seoul, Korea. That's not something that you see in most city streets. I finally had the pleasure of driving a Bentley during one of their special events a few weeks ago. I chose the Flying Spur out of all of their models and what a ride it was! I got to drive it for half an hour along the beach. All seats have massagers, so you can get a massage while driving or as a passenger in any of the other seats. One of the most impressive characteristics of the model I drove is its acceleration. I drove a Porsche, Jaguar and BMW many years ago but the nicest car I drove a few months ago was a Maserati. Not anymore. The Flying Spur is a dream. I literally felt like I reliving one of the many pleasant dreams that I've had. The car doesn't even lurch back the slightest bit when you accelerate. The steering wheel doesn't move right or left the slightest upon quick take off. The car is like a solid piece of steel that does't make you nervous when accelerating. Truly an amazing experience. The braking wasn't as impressive as I expected but it also didn't disappoint. English cars truly are the epitome of luxury and class that make German cars seem like Toyotas and Hondas. My dream car was an Aston Martin Lagonda 36 years ago. Aston Martin designers use Fibonacci numbers, which is why the car looks perfectly balanced, proportional, and among the most beautiful of sports cars...if not the most beautiful. But I now prefer the Bentley's design. It's very refreshing to see such a beautiful car in a sea of boring, ubiquitous designs. Some like the Mercedes Benz look unappealing and foreboding.

@chrisj197438 5 жыл бұрын

A Bentley is a beautiful car. I love the older models personally.

@sparty94 4 жыл бұрын

"bentleys are cars for those that don't want to display their wealth".

@cityandsuburb 6 жыл бұрын

A very nice way to spend time... Glass of good single malt, comfortable armchair, cigar & Bentleys on T.V.... I could think of many poorer ways to lose thirty minutes....!

@aureliobrighton1871 2 ай бұрын

I am german. And the only thing I can say is, all those british (and italian) essence-of-culture products should not have been even near to domestic or american companies. Leave alone the grotesque fact of Bentley by VOLKSwagen. India might be another cup of tea ;). To me all that turned to just well made luxury mass objects like any other. Thanks.

@johnnymason2460 Жыл бұрын

Early Bentley cars were great cars. Even Jay Leno understands that. The 8 Liter Bentleys were the best prewar luxury cars ever built(it's a shame only 100 of those cars were ever built). Today Bentleys are great performance luxury cars. It's a shame Bentley is going all electric. The public deserves better than this.

@redthorn-gj7zu 6 жыл бұрын

Nice cars highly price and beautiful cars classic

@davidmaher1730 Жыл бұрын

Interesting article.

@barkebaat 4 жыл бұрын

12:53 - What could possibly go wrong ?

@ukaszb7647 Жыл бұрын

Komentarz dla zasięgu algorytmów KZfaq-Konieczny!

@icemanroyal 5 жыл бұрын

the hats!

@jeremythompson9895 5 жыл бұрын

How is driving a Bentley NOT flaunting your wealth? They're some of the most expensive cars in the world

@KingRoseArchives 5 жыл бұрын

Understated when compared to some. But you're right. Not exactly an econo box.

@user-ss2ly1ir6j 4 жыл бұрын

@bootnsoot Like a damn Lambo...

@jakekaywell5972 4 жыл бұрын

@Sebastian Duligher How is he an idiot?

@Rog5446 6 жыл бұрын

Philip Brooks said that Bentley built two rotary engines for aircraft. They were not rotary, they were radial.

@woodthorpe100 6 жыл бұрын

There was a rotary Bentley engine. The cylinders rotated round the crankshaft.Check out the Le Rhone engine it was a rotary also

@Rog5446 6 жыл бұрын

Just checked out the Le Rhone engine. The pistons are reciprocal, therefore it's a radial. Just because the engines rotate, this does not make it a rotary. The pistons have to rotate in the combustion chamber to be a rotary engine.

@webleyboxer1 6 жыл бұрын

"Rotary engine" originally referred to the rotating cylinder type engines - with reciprocating pistons. The usage for Wankel engines etc is fairly recent and unconnected. It's not wrong to call the Le Rhone and Bentley aero engines "Rotary's" and they are considered distinct from "Radial" engines despite having cylinders in a radial pattern.

@khaccanhle1930 5 жыл бұрын

@@Rog5446 the first engines to be called "rotary" were arranged in a radial pattern, but the whole engine rotated around along with the propeller. The Wankel came much later. This is a case of someone knowing enough about a topic to be dangerous but not competent.

@tanthiennguyen9308 9 ай бұрын

Ich möchte eine Familie besuchen mit Lächelnd & Geschenke dabeihaben..................!

@gilesellis8002 5 жыл бұрын

Chassis no. RB 0008, 1934 James Young AXR 1, 3½ litre; The family car throughout Childhood

@burnotto1663 4 жыл бұрын

BC 38 CZ was min childhood car

@adrianosler1682 4 жыл бұрын

better than a rolls period

@mgithaiga1 5 жыл бұрын

We don't see these cars in kenya, shame!

@joecostner1246 4 жыл бұрын

in Kenya, you're so funny

@charlieproctor6533 4 жыл бұрын

@@joecostner1246 but you see Obama all the time

@ardalla535 4 жыл бұрын

I had a dog named Bentley. He didn't look nearly this good.

@shanehnorman 5 жыл бұрын

No reference to the mighty 1930 8-litre, development of which was a far bigger factor in the company's demise than building 50 blower cars.

@KingRoseArchives 5 жыл бұрын

Probably right but the blowers were so much fun.

@2Truth2you 6 жыл бұрын

Adios Bentley!

@tanthiennguyen9308 9 ай бұрын

Wann kann ich glücklich beim Familien Spielend bitteschön.......................................................?

@71EMG 6 жыл бұрын

Bentley is in the hands of VW - Rolls-Royce is owned by BMW.

@rsr789 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that news from 1998.

@EricH928 6 жыл бұрын

Soon there will be only one car company.

@cityandsuburb 6 жыл бұрын

But..... Rolls & Bentley actually produced a tatty product under British management, I know this to be true because a good friend worked for Duncan Hamilton in the eighties & I witnessed many of those Marques passing through his showroom in Bagshot. Most would have nothing more than 200 miles on them, my chum would go over them to ensure everything was as it should be. He pointed out both poor engineering & poor finish. Hamilton used to offer AMG conversions for clients - the Mercedes product at that time was head & shoulders above our best offerings. Under German management, the Bentley & Rolls motors are superb, thank God.... The workforce is unchanged, so...... The German management don't have bullshit like 'a key for the executive bathroom' & like affectations, harking back to the 'them & us' labour-relations of the past...

@wholeNwon 6 жыл бұрын

Congrats! How did you figure that out?

@touraneindanke 5 жыл бұрын

Ed Gehringer smart how did you found them out? lol

@colinp2238 4 жыл бұрын

A Bentley demands to be driven, well my story is that as I was passing a Bentley I heard it pleading with me to drive it. Well I jumped in and drove it off, milord.

@steventheo69 4 жыл бұрын

Is that Carson from Downton Abbey narrating?????

@allwinds3786 4 жыл бұрын

Good presentation, but why Beethoven, I would think that Holst or Vaughan Williams

@user-ss2ly1ir6j 4 жыл бұрын

Or Hess or Mengele, both accomplished composers in their own right

@12121149 5 жыл бұрын

Speed Six had a chopped top,way before there were chopped tops,just sayin'

@DiscretionPlease 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting documentary, but not much about the 8 Litre or 4 Litre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_8_Litre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_4_Litre

@KingRoseArchives 6 жыл бұрын

Hard to wedge all of the different pieces of the story into 25 minutes. Thanks for the links.

@tanthiennguyen9308 9 ай бұрын

Vielen Dank allen Mitarbeitern an Kompetenz Arbeitsplätzen Zufrieden haben können bitteschön Vielen Dank Opas + Omas....Väter + Müttern.....Onkeln + Tanten....Brüdern + Schwestern..... Cousanna + Cousinne + Nichten und Neffen Gesundheitlich nicht Schlafend.................................!

@mogaeromax 5 жыл бұрын

Attention producers of videos.Music under narration is unnecessary,it is also ANNOYING!!! Thank you.

@Loop44 4 жыл бұрын

get better speakers/headphones

@loddude5706 4 жыл бұрын

@@Loop44 Whoosh!

@jakekaywell5972 4 жыл бұрын

Music and narration together is an essential component of any video of this nature. I would not consider one to be complete without it.

@Hithere-ek4qt 3 жыл бұрын

@@jakekaywell5972 then you are a fool.

@jakekaywell5972 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hithere-ek4qt Ok then.

@hassm4223 5 жыл бұрын

whats the song from 0.58 to1.28 ? thanks

@tanthiennguyen9308 9 ай бұрын

Ein Gesundheitlich Herz mit Baby Gesichte ohne Lösungen haben können bitteschön...............?

@somjuenpinsagurn6260 4 жыл бұрын

Foreigner's ask what is Englishness look no further.

@13stalag13 6 жыл бұрын

The picture of what is supposed to be a Camel, is actually a Nieuport 28. You'd think they could at least get a picture of a Camel, and not an aircraft the Bentley rotary engine was NOT mounted in.

@hassm4223 4 жыл бұрын

whats the song name at 1.02 ? thanks !

@Hithere-ek4qt 3 жыл бұрын

get a life, no one cares. We are here for the cars, not some bullshit sound track.

@tanthiennguyen9308 Жыл бұрын

Zylinderförmige

@EricH928 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but if you buy a Bentley you ARE flaunting your wealth.

@wholeNwon 6 жыл бұрын

It's a matter of degree. Much worse to be seen in a RR. But you're right...bad form. The wealthiest people I know wouldn't be caught dead in either but then again none are footballers or professional wrestlers.

@touraneindanke 5 жыл бұрын

NO than your just flaunting good taste. Or else you buy something good and pimping it for 20.0000 or even more thats discusting thats flaunting

@wholeNwon 5 жыл бұрын

It seems that English isn't your first language.

@touraneindanke 5 жыл бұрын

wholeNwon i do try, we where almost German you know. By the way thanks for saving us ✨❤️

@wholeNwon 5 жыл бұрын

touraneindanke Were, not where. Where are you?

@tanthiennguyen9308 9 ай бұрын

Hacken Sie meine Füsse beim Rollschuhen lernen....................!

@RJ4962 6 жыл бұрын

modern Bentleys designed and made in Germany assembled in the UK...that makes them German and no longer British.. :(

@wholeNwon 6 жыл бұрын

Replacing unreliable British designs with unreliable German designs.

@tanthiennguyen9308 9 ай бұрын

Was verstehen Sie unten Wirtschaftlich & Wissenschaftlicher Bedeutung auf der Weltmarktführer beweisen haben können bitteschön......................................?

@Hithere-ek4qt 3 жыл бұрын

The new Bentley's are UGLY!!!

@tanthiennguyen9308 9 ай бұрын

Werde ich eine Frauen noch Kopfschutzen für Menschheit Qualifiziert Lebensmitteln brauchen........?

@DeHirvilammi 4 жыл бұрын

BENTLEY CAR IS A POOR MANS ROLLS ROYCE

@grahamparr4710 4 жыл бұрын

SYDNEY HI anyone who can afford a Bentley is not a poor man.

@DeHirvilammi 4 жыл бұрын

@@grahamparr4710 BUT THEY CANT BUY ROLLS LOL

@barrierodliffe4155 4 жыл бұрын

@@DeHirvilammi They might want to buy a Bentley in preference to a Rolls Royce For instance I would take a Bentley Continental any day rather than a Rolls Royce Ghost. You need well over 100,000 pounds for the Bentley but what a car.

@jeffmullinix7916 6 жыл бұрын

Stiff lip Brits think loosing a race is winning a race . That isn't the way it goes wigs . The first car crosses the finish line wins . The only time a Bentley ever won a race is when a faster car hard broken down or wrecked .

@Rog5446 6 жыл бұрын

So Bentleys were great cars then! Designed to finish and finish first.

@FredBTs 6 жыл бұрын

Bentley’s won Le Mans 4 years in a row.

@FredBTs 6 жыл бұрын

Jeff Mullinix Also a Brit is probably going to be Formula One champ for the 18th time (the US once) more times than any other country. Brits have also won 47 Grand Prix motorcycle championships, the US 17 times. When it comes to world class car and bike racing the Brits have won far more than Americans. Last but not least a Brit holds the land speed record, 763 mph. The US is the land where they have World Championships but don’t allow other countries to compete, yep US teams always win the World Series and the Super Bowl!

@webleyboxer1 6 жыл бұрын

That is the point of endurance racing though.

@craigyirush3492 5 жыл бұрын

The whole point of an endurance race like Le Mans is to not break down. If you win b/c your opponents don’t finish, there’s nothing wrong with that.