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The Bentley 8 Litre was a large inline 6-cylinder super-luxury car made in various configurations by Bentley Motors Limited at Cricklewood, London. Announced 15 September 1930, it was also the last completely new model by Bentley before the company's financial collapse and forced sale to Rolls-Royce Limited .
Although in general, prices of collectible cars have slightly recessed as a result of the recent recession, [36] prices for most high-end collector cars have held their value or continued to rise. [4] Since the 1990s recession, values of the most desirable cars have risen by at least 200%. [33]
Bentley resurrected the nameplate in 2007 with the Brooklands Coupé, a 2-door, 4-seater hardtop coupé version of the Bentley Azure. It was made between 2008 and 2011 in limited numbers. These cars were named after Brooklands, a banked race track in Surrey, where Bentley obtained some of its greatest triumphs in the 1920s and 1930s.
Manufacturers made 15% to 20% profit margin on an SUV, compared to 3% or less on a car. [102] When gasoline prices rose above $4 per gallon in 2008, Americans stopped buying the big vehicles and Big Three sales and profitability plummeted. The 2007–2008 financial crisis played a role, as GM was unable to obtain credit to buy Chrysler.
Even BMW's own Rolls-Royce, whose combustion cars exclusively offer 12-cylinder engines, it less reserved than Bentley. Yet times have been tough amid a cost-of-living crisis in the U.K. and ...
The Bentley Brooklands Coupé is a two-door hardtop coupé version of the Bentley Azure convertible (itself related to the Bentley Arnage).As a hand-assembled car made in very small numbers, employing traditional coach-building techniques and craftsmanship skills in wood and leather, the Brooklands Coupé is the true successor to the discontinued Bentley Continental R and T. [citation needed ...
Still, Bentley sells more cars than costlier brands like Rolls-Royce, which sold just over 6,000 vehicles last year. That was an all-time record for Rolls-Royce cars priced at a minimum of around ...
Back in the fall of 2022, Bentley Motors CEO Adrian Hallmark told Yahoo Finance he had “never seen spending patterns” like this before with his high-end clientele, and the famed British ...