Bentley Continental
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Bentley has used the Continental name on a number of automobiles since 1952
From 1952 to 1965 always for cars with more powerful engines than used in standard cars installed in lowered chassis provided to coachbuilders for distinctive and distinguished body shapes of specially lightened construction
Bentley Continentals were close-coupled two-door saloons intended for high speed touring and slightly less for comfort. They were named Continental (as with some Rolls-Royces before them) because at the time (until the 1960s) there were no high speed roads of any length on their home territory.
From 1965 and the introduction of the T series with its unitary construction Continental chassis were no longer made available to coachbuilders
post-coachbuilder cars
post-Vickers cars
From 1952 to 1965 always for cars with more powerful engines than used in standard cars installed in lowered chassis provided to coachbuilders for distinctive and distinguished body shapes of specially lightened construction
Bentley Continentals were close-coupled two-door saloons intended for high speed touring and slightly less for comfort. They were named Continental (as with some Rolls-Royces before them) because at the time (until the 1960s) there were no high speed roads of any length on their home territory.
From 1965 and the introduction of the T series with its unitary construction Continental chassis were no longer made available to coachbuilders
- 1952 Bentley Continental Mark VIBentley Mark VIThe Bentley Mark VI was the first post-war luxury car from Bentley.Announced in May 1946 and produced from 1946 to 1952 it was also both the first car from Rolls-Royce with all-steel coachwork and the first complete car assembled and finished at their factory...
- 1952–1955 Bentley Continental R-type
- 1955–1959 Bentley Continental S1Bentley S1The Bentley S was a luxury car produced by Bentley Motors Limited from 1955 until 1959.Bentley 's first true complete redesign of their standard production car after World War II and their last standard production car with an independent chassis.These cars were given a new V8 engine in late 1959,...
- 1959–1962 Bentley Continental S2Bentley S2The Bentley S2 was a luxury car produced by Bentley from 1959 until 1962. The changed designation S2 was to mark the new V8 engine and the improved air conditioning which could now be run from it...
- 1962–1965 Bentley Continental S3Bentley S3The Bentley S3 is a four-door luxury car produced by Bentley from late 1962 until 1965.The S3 was very similar to the S2. The most-visible difference was a four-headlamp layout that paved the way for the radically new Bentley T1 in 1965. The interior was modified with individual seats for front...
post-coachbuilder cars
- 1984–1995 Bentley Continental
- 1991–2002 Bentley Continental RBentley Continental RThe Bentley Continental R is a large, expensive, luxury coupé made by Bentley from 1991 to 2002. It was the first Bentley to feature a body not shared with a Rolls-Royce model since the S3 of 1965, the first to use the GM 4L80-E transmission, and the quickest, most expensive, and most powerful...
- 1994–1995 Bentley Continental S
- 1996–2002 Bentley Continental T
post-Vickers cars
- 2003– Bentley Continental GTBentley Continental GT-Flying Spur:The four door Continental Flying Spur saloon was first displayed at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. The Flying Spur utilizes most of the technical underpinnings of the Bentley Continental GT, and was introduced to European and North American markets in the summer of 2005...
- 2005– Bentley Continental Flying SpurBentley Continental Flying Spur (2005)The Bentley Continental Flying Spur is a four-door variant of the Bentley Continental GT coupé. The Bentley Continental Flying Spur was introduced in 2005....
- 2006– GTC Bentley Continental GTC
- 2009– Bentley Continental Supersports
See also
- BentleyBentleyBentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later...
- Bentley S3Bentley S3The Bentley S3 is a four-door luxury car produced by Bentley from late 1962 until 1965.The S3 was very similar to the S2. The most-visible difference was a four-headlamp layout that paved the way for the radically new Bentley T1 in 1965. The interior was modified with individual seats for front...