{"id":817156,"date":"2024-02-19T01:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?page_id=817156"},"modified":"2024-03-23T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:58:30","slug":"bentley-vickers-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/all-brands\/bentley\/bentley-vickers-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley (The Vickers Era Years) Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vickers Era Bentley Cars<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">1980 &#8211; 1998<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Managing director of the time, David Plastow, promised members of the Bentley Drivers Club a Bentley resurgence; and so it was to prove. In 1980, Rolls-Royce merged with Vickers. Building up the Bentley marque was a key strategy to improving the company\u2019s performance. The Bentley Mulsanne, launched in 1980, was another badge-engineered car \u2013 sharing much with the Silver Spirit \u2013 but at least the name, redolent of Bentley\u2019s Le Mans history suggested better things to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-91137\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Full Model List <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-48430\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Models In-Depth<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-70424\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Image Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1991_Bentley_ContinentalR1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bentley Models from 1980 &#8211; 1998<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, sans-serif\">The renaissance proper began in 1982, when the Mulsanne Turbo was launched. This 140mph Bentley \u2013 nicknamed \u2018Crewe\u2019s Missile\u2019 \u2013 accelerated faster than some Ferraris and yet still had all the refinement and civility one expected from a Bentley. Bentley sales were booming. Soon Bentley, not Rolls-Royce would become the dominant marque at Crewe, The Eight, which followed in 1984, had a chrome mesh radiator, like a racing \u201920s Bentley, and used stiffened suspension.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, sans-serif\">The Mulsanne Turbo was replaced by the Turbo R (for Roadholding) in 1985 and was a defining moment in Bentley\u2019s history \u2013 it was even faster and more refined but, most significantly, represented a breakthrough in dynamic handling.&nbsp;When launched in 1991, the Continental R became the first unique-to-Bentley coup\u00e9 since the S3 Continental of 1965. This in turn spawned the Azure of 1995, the first all-new Bentley convertible for 30 years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, sans-serif\">A year later saw the launch of the shorter, wider and faster Continental T coup\u00e9 (derived from the R) with its 6.75-litre engine ultimately to develop 420 bhp and a claimed top speed of 170 mph.&nbsp;The all-new Arnage saloon was launched in 1998 and initially used a BMW-derived 4.5-litre twin turbo V8, although the Crewe-produced 6.75-litre V8 would remain in production in the Azure and Continental R and T models.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MF905686-Edit.webp\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vickers Era Bentley Cars 1980 &#8211; 1998 Managing director of the time, David Plastow, promised members of the Bentley Drivers Club a Bentley resurgence; and so it was to prove. In 1980, Rolls-Royce merged with Vickers. Building up the Bentley marque was a key strategy to improving the company\u2019s performance. The Bentley Mulsanne, launched in 1980, was another badge-engineered car \u2013 sharing much with the Silver Spirit \u2013 but at least the name, redolent of Bentley\u2019s Le Mans history suggested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":817164,"parent":354531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-817156","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bentley (The Vickers Era Years) - Bentley&#039;s Renaissance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Managing director of the time, David Plastow, promised members of the Bentley Drivers Club a Bentley resurgence; and so it was to prove...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/all-brands\/bentley\/bentley-vickers-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bentley (The Vickers Era Years) - Bentley&#039;s Renaissance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Managing director of the time, David Plastow, promised members of the Bentley Drivers Club a Bentley resurgence; 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