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The Ultimate Guide to Bentley: Performance and Luxury Combined

When it comes to blending eye-watering performance and butt-coddling luxury, few companies excel like Bentley. From huge engines and loads of power to exotic wood and quilted leather, this iconic brand has mastered the art of creating vehicles that are both exhilarating to drive and indulgent to be in.

Engine Revving: The Heartbeat of Bentley

The sound of a revving engine is music to many car enthusiasts' ears. For Bentley, it's not just about power – it's an experience. With engines that deliver, you'll feel the rush of adrenaline as you take your vehicle out for a spin.

Luxury Redefined: Where Comfort Meets Performance

Bentley's commitment to luxury extends far beyond the driving experience. Exotic wood and quilted leather are just two examples of the opulent materials used in their vehicles. Every detail, from the stitching on the seats to the subtle scents wafting through the cabin, is designed to create an atmosphere that's both soothing and sophisticated.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(engine revving)- From huge engines and loads of powerto exotic wood and quilted leather,few companies blend eyewatering performanceand butt coddling luxury,as well as this one does.(engine revving)This is everything you need to knowto get up to speed on Bentley.(lightning crashes)(whimsical music)Before we get into it, Iwanna thank Surfshark VPNfor sponsoring this episode.In the ocean of online content,there's a lot of websitesand little crab guysthat take your info withoutyou even knowing it.But you can swim under theirradar using Surfshark VPN,a virtual private network.You can stop websitesfrom tracking your infoand selling targeted ads to you.Plus, with Surfshark'shack lock ID protectionyou get an alert withsome little jerk manta rayis trying to break into your email.One of my favorite features of Surfsharkis that you can see contentnot available in your area.How many times have youtried to watch the new seasonof Whale Migration andthe video is blocked?For me, too many times to count.If you want both protectionand freedom online,click the link in the description belowand use code DONUTMEDIA.It not only gives you a whopping83% off the regular price,but also a whole monthof service totally free.Surfshark offers a 30day money back guarantee,so there's no risk totry it out for yourself.Thanks again, to Surfshark.Support the brands that support Donut,it's how we make all this contentthat you guys get to watch for free.You guys may be wonderingwhy I have a microphone in this episode.Turns out, watch the news.We're not slowing downat all, Donut everyday.Hit that subscribe button and that bellso you don't miss anything.Now, with that out ofthe way let's get in.If you've made enoughmoney to buy a Bentleyor to call your second studio album"Beer Bongs and Bentley's" nice,everyone knows that youhave officially made it.Few cars offer as muchspeed, power, and luxuryin one package but most of the good stuffactually happened earlyon in the brand's history.In the early 1900's, Walter Owen Bentleyand one of his brothers owned a companythat sold French DFP cars inCricklewood, North England.English people are thebest at naming stuff.Cricklewood.This looks like a good pieceof land, it does, it does.What should we call it?(twig snaps)(gasps)Cricklewood.If you wanna know whata DFP car is, Google it.I just ain't got time,'cause this is up to speed on Bentley.Now Walter had previouslyworked on locomotivesand motorcycles so he reallywanted to build his own cars.The engineer side of his brain thought,"Why not make pistons outof lightweight aluminuminstead of heavy old iron?"Genius.He came up with his own aluminum alloy,fab some new pistons,and installed them inone of the French carshe should have had up for sale.It worked out really, really well.He set speed recordsand won a ton of raceswith it at local tracks.Then there was a big war,and everyone stopped doingstuff for fun for a while.I'm sure you guys can all relate.But, WO had made a bigenough name for himselfthat the British governmentasked him for helpwith the war effort.They used Bentley pistons inWorld War I bi-plane enginesand when the war was over,Walter was awarded an NBE.That's a fancy British title.It's like a knight or somethingand he also got enough moneyto start a new business.The Bentley Motor Company.So Walter set out to makea fast car, a good car,the best car.Formal Royal Flying Corpsofficer named Clive Gallopdesigned a three liter,four cylinder enginefor the first Bentley that wassuper advanced for the time,it had four valves and twospark plugs per cylinder.It had a dry simp oil system,that's race car stuff.And an overhead cam shaft.The first Bentley threeliter was delivered in 1921and they became known forbeing extremely reliant.(engine revving)They raced in local hillclimbs, and at Brooklands,the world's first purposebuilt banked race track.By 1922, they were alreadyrunning in the Indianapolis 500.They started 19th and finished 13th.Not too shabby for theirfirst 500 mile race.But Bentley thought thatracing for 24 hours straightwas ridiculous but after seeing a customerplace fourth in a Bentleyin the 1923, 24 Hours Of Lemans,they entered a factory teamfor the next seven years straight.(whimsical music)Now as we've mentionedin previous episodes,back in the day it was pretty commonto only supply the drive chain,the chasse, and the badgewithout a car body.Then the buyers wouldcommission a custom bodyfrom a local coach builder which meantthat cars from one manufacturerdidn't all look the same.Now Bentley could look like anything,so the badge was the only waythat you'd know what it is.Now apparently, taking abadge from a more expensiveor cooler car and puttingit on your not as cool carwas a thing that people did in the 1920'sjust like they do today.It's okay that it's not a real M3,but there's no such thing as an M3 28IS.Just like a Type R badge.So with that in mind, theBentley badge was designedwith a different numberof feathers on each wing.Bentley figured thatpeople who made fake badgeswouldn't notice this, so theforgeries would have the samenumber of feathers on eachside and be easy to spot.Yeah, it's a Bentley.In 1925, Captain Woolf Barnato,a wealthy diamond mine heir,bought his first Bentleyand started winning races in it.When Bentley struggled to make ends meet,Woolf invested his owncash into the companyand ended up takingcontrol of the whole thing.He and a handful of otherindependently wealthy racerscame to be known as The Bentley Boys.They were Woolf Babe Barnato,Sir Henry Tim Birkin,Glen Kidston, J.K BenjyBenjafield reporting for duty,John Duff, and Sammy Davis baby.How cool is that?Four of them lived in apartmentsright next door to each otherin a fancy part of Londonwhere they threw partiesthat lasted for daysand parked their Bentley'sall together in one corner.That's awesome!That's the coolest thingI've ever heard in my life!Just like me, and Nolan,and Jobe, and Jeremiah,and Joey, and Joe and all the Donut guysjust parking all ourcars next to each otherand just like, "Oh man, what day is it?""I don't even know, party day."The general public imagined the friendssipping Mo Weezy together at clubs,betting on the ponies,playing the stock marketand honing their bets on weekends.Which is exactly what they did.It was the Great Gatsby lifestyleeveryone wished they had,and the Bentley Boys were a major partof building up the Bentleybrand's prestigious reputation.Benjy Benjafield and Sammy Davismanaged to score thecompany's most dramatic winat the 1927 24 Hours Of Lemans.The entire Bentley teamand several other carswere involved in one huge crash.While the others were taken out,Benjy and Sammy's old number seven Bentleywas still drivable andthey nursed it to the endin first place.Bentley has then won for thenext three years in a roweven sweeping the top four places in 1929.Now compared to the racyBugatti's at the time,Bentley's were huge, they still are.But their engines were also twice as bigand you know what they sayabout bigger engines, right?They make over power baby.Wait, why do you have a microphone?Watch the news.Walter Bentley didn't like the ideaof using force inductionto make more power,he's actually the guy who came upwith the muscle car fanboy's favorite phrase,"There's no replacement for displacement."People were puttingheavier and heavier bodiesonto his chasse too,which is why Bentley builta six and half liter in line sixand called it the Speed Six.But Bentley Boy, TomBirkin wasn't having it.He was old school boost creeping,he wanted a lighter weight,super charged four cylinder.The super charged Bentleywas the company'sequivalent of a drag car.Fast as hell, but it wasunreliable for endurance racing.Ask Nolan what that's about,you add boost to your car and you ruin it.So turned out that back thenthere still wasn't areplacement for displacementbecause Walter's Speed Sixeswon both the 1929 and 1930Running's Of Lemans, but despite thatthe blow Bentley was the mostpopular model at the time,probably because there was afreaking root super chargerhanging off the nose likea whiny silver booger.In all, Bentley's won Lemans five timesout of eight attemptsbetween 1924 and 1930.After the fifth win,Walter claimed he'd learnedeverything they needed to knowabout speed and reliabilityand retired the team from racing.I mean, you might as wellgo out on top, right?Walter capped off 1930 withthe Bentley eight liter.A massive in line six cylinderthat was guaranteed todo 100 miles per hourno matter what coach work was on it.It made about 220 horse powers,which was huge power at the time,when other high performancecars barely made 100.And they cruised smoothly and quietly.His personal eight literwas restored in 2006and every Bentley CEO gets the keys to itas a reminder of the company's philosophy.It was WO's masterpiece,but only 100 were madebecause the Great Depressionwas in full stridewhen it came out.Nobody was buying anything expensivebecause nobody had any freaking money.Woolf was too scared tokeep dumping his own cashinto the business, sothe Bentley Motor Companywas put up for sale.Pretending to be anothercompany in disguise,Rolls Royce bought Bentleybecause they wanted to eliminatetheir biggest competitor.One entire Bentley Motor Company please.Wait a second, are you Rolls Royce?What?No, it's Royce Rolls.All right, one Bentley forthe tall gentleman up front.Production was suspended for a few years.It moved from Cricklewood tothe Rolls factory in Derby.All the cars made before the takeoverare called Cricklewood Bentley's.I'm sure Jay Leno has a million of them.Cars made from 1933 to 1939are called Derby Bentley'sand they're basically badgeengineered Rolls Royce's.They were advertised asThe Silent Sports Carand were still really, really good though'cause I mean, Rolls Royce,Rolls Royce doesn't suck.Car production around theworld pretty much stopped againfor World War II and pickedback up in a newer factoryin Crewe, which is whereBentley's are still made today.A while after the war ended,long time Rolls Royceengineer, Ivan Evernden,decided to distance new R type Bentley'sfrom their corporate silver dawn sickle.He developed the high performance1952 R type Continentalwith a long, low body and testedit in an actual wind tunnelso air could be optimized.Ivan wanted it to besomething that you could drivecomfortably across theentire continent of Europeat over 100 miles per hour.But there were no tires availablethat could handle the weightof such a big luxuriouscar at those speeds.Regular models weremade out of heavy steelso fancy pants coachbuilders, H.J Mullinerhad to use aluminum,extensively to make it work.The car didn't even come with a radiobecause it would be too much added weight.The R type Continental sold for almostseven thousand British pounds,which was over three timesthe average cost of a house.So how do you makethe best grand touringcar around even better?You add two doors and call itthe S Series Continental Flying Spur?Exactly, thank you.No problem baby.Now, passengers could envelop themselvesin backseat bouginess without awkwardlyclimbing past the front seats like pleas.What am I gonna do?Touch my driver in front of everybody.The S Series Continentalswere the last Bentley'sto be sold as bare chasse andbe bodied by someone else.The T Series that debutedin 1965 and ran into 1980was made fully in house.It was just a Rolls Royce Silver Shadowwith a different grill and badge on it.By the 70's, the re-badged Bentley'swere barely 5% of RollsRoyce's productionsso they tried to revive the brandby playing up it's racy pastand building performance models again.All right, nice that's good plan.The new Mulsanne was named afterthe famous Lemans straight awayand they gave it and thenew Brooklands modelsturbo charged 6.7 five liter V8's.The second gen Brooklandsmade the most tourof any gas powered productionV8 with 770 pound feet.(engine revving)Bentley's sales shotback up to surpass Rollsexcept it didn't reallymatter because the two brandswere both now ownedby an engineering company called Vickers.(whimsical music)In 1998, Vickers soldboth luxury car brandsto Volkswagen because yeah, duh.Volkswagen owns everybody,but here's the thing,Rolls Royce also makes airplane enginesand due to some prior airplaneengine's business with BMW,BMW ended up with all ofRolls Royce's trademarksand ultimately the entire brand.Now Volkswagen managedto hold onto Bentley,but they really wanted bothas if they didn't alreadyown enough car brands.In a bid to revive Bentley'sbrand performance heritageagain they went back tothe 24 Hours Of Lemansfor the first time in 70 years.(engine revving)A Speed Eight prototypecame in third in 2001and two Speed Eights tookfirst and second in 2003.Right after the win, the sleeknew Bentley Continental GTcame out and launched thebrand's highest sales ever.It was a grand touring coupe,who's styling was obviously inspired byearlier Continental designs.It was still all hand built,but since it was basedon the VW Phaeton Sedanit can now be mass produced.With the six liter, twin turbo W12,masses of people wanted them produced.Sales shot up from just 800total Bentley's per yearto nearly seven thousandContinental GT's per year alone.(engine revving)2007 was the first year that Bentley soldmore than 10 thousand cars.Okay, so super niche branddoesn't make a lot of cars.Volkswagen buys them, allof a sudden this one modeloutsells pretty much theentire number of carsthey've ever sold ever.Sound familiar?Check out this episode ofUp to Speed on Lamborghini.I'll put the link inthe description below.A whole line of Continental GT variancespun off from that success,including the new Flying Spurand Mulsanne editions andsales are still going strong.For buyers who didn't want a Mercedes ANGor Italian Exotic, the newBentley models were just right.A touch of British class,with a bunch of refined power baby!Refined power baby!Nowadays, SUV's are what everybody wants,especially rich people.So the huge Bentayga is nowBentley's most popular model.They're among the top ofthe performance luxury gamewith huge powerful enginesand hand built craftsmanship.There's a ridiculous number of waysto customize a new Bentley.From choosing your own twotone leather and wood trimall the way down to thecolor of the carpet binding.I had to look up what carpet binding was.And for the ultimate Bentley freak,there's the WO editionMulsanne by Mulliner.Bentley brought the legendaryBritish coach builderin house to make special editions.When Walter WO Bentley'spersonal eight literwas restored in 2006,the engine was rebuiltand the original crankshaft was set aside.And to commemorate 100 years of Bentley,they sliced it up in 100 cross sectionsand laid them into theback seat beverage traysof 100 new Bentley Mullsanne's.If you wanna know what it cost,you won't find out on the websitebecause if you need to knowthe price before you buy ityou can't freaking afford it dude.Now if you have two milliondollars lying aroundto dole out on one of 12Bentley Bacalar Roadstersthen you're a lucky dude.It has wood trim made fromtrees that weren't cut down.They simply got tired of livingand fell of their own accordand then hung out in an English peat bogfor five thousand years.I saw one at Geneva, it's sick.Now that's what I call some good wood.(crickets chirping)Now Bentley sells andmakes more cars todaythan they ever have,but if you can afford any of their modelsyou'll still have a very rareand very, very special car.Thank you so much for watchingthis episode of Up To Speed.We gotta give you guys some stuff to watchif you're stuck at home.Go ahead and hit that subscribe buttonso you don't miss anything.We got Wheel House on Monday,on Tuesday, we got Bumper to Bumper,Wednesday we have Money Pit,Thursday, got this showit's called Up To Speed,Friday, my brand newshow called the D List,Saturday we have a show called Versus,and then 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