Bentley Classic Cars: Arnage & Continental
Bentley Classic Cars is a British automobile manufacturer which was found by Walter Owen Bentley in the year 1919. It was initially known as W.O. Bentley was involved in manufacturing rotary aero-engines during First World War. The first famous was Bentley BR1. Since 1998, Bentley is owned by Volkswagen Group, Germany. The company is located in Crewe, England with other manufacturing plants located in Crewe. Bentley has been in the market for very long time and is known for manufacturing vehicles with cutting-edge technology. The company was found by W.O. Bentley and is brother who purchased a French Motor Company which was later renamed as Bentley and Bentley. The logo of Bentley is Flying B which was designed in the year 1920 and their first production vehicle was introduced in 1921.
Bentley Classic Cars entered into Indy 500 in the year 1922 and took the fourth position in Le Mans in 1923. Despite of manufacturing and designing beautiful vehicles, the company was not able to make profits out of their luxurious vehicles so in 1931, Rolls Royce helped them financially and came to the rescue. The first Bentley was manufactured and launched in 1933 under Rolls Royce brand. In 1939, fortunes changed for Bentley and they opened a new manufacturing plant especially for producing Bentley cars. In the year 1998, Volkswagen purchased Rolls Royce and Bentley Company and after 70 years, Bentley was separated from Rolls Royce Company in 1992.

Bentley Classic Cars is still involved in manufacturing high-performance luxury vehicles that provide comfort and safety like Bentley Arnage & Bentley Continental.
Bentley Arnage is one of the super luxury and grand flagship sedans of Bentley Company that offers prodigious power and old-world lavishness. The Arnage is available in three different trim levels such as high-performance Arnage T, Arnage R and stretched-wheelbase Arnage RL. All Arnage models are powered by 6.75 liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine which is good for producing earth shaking 738 pound feet of torque and 500 horsepower.
The Bentley Arnage is equipped with six-speed automatic transmission with rear wheel drive system that sends power to rear wheels. It goes from 0 to 60mph in time range of 5.3 seconds. The RL and R models come with supercharged engine that generate 645 pound feet of torque and 450 horsepower. It is also known as British luxury quarter-million sedans that comes with luxurious interior equipped and outfitted with high quality materials like copious amounts and creature comforts of leather and wood. The standard features of Bentley Arnage include reclining rear seats, parking assist, three-zone automatic climate control system, Bluetooth and navigation system. Overall it is quite luxurious, but lacks driving dynamics, newer engineering and higher levels of prestige and posh of its competitors like Maybach and Rolls Royce.
Bentley Continental was initially manufactured and introduced in the year 1991. But this new ultra-luxury model is available as four-seat coupe that comes with 6.75 liter V8 engine which is good for producing 590 pound feet of torque and 400 horsepower. It comes with standard features and equipments which include shortened wheelbase, specially tuned engine, firmer and lowered suspension and wider track.
The Bentley Continental comes with 18 inch alloy wheels and despite of its 5401 pounds of hefty weight, it goes from 0 to 60mph in the time range of 5.7 seconds which is quite impressive. There are some standard safety features which include limited slip differential, antilock disc brakes with four-wheel Antilock Braking System and Automatic Ride Control System which offer computer control of suspension dampers for optimizing ride handling and comfort. Those who are looking for bulbous heavy presence, Continental is the best choice.

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