{"id":817158,"date":"2024-02-19T01:34:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?page_id=817158"},"modified":"2024-03-23T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:58:22","slug":"bentley-the-modern-vw-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/all-brands\/bentley\/bentley-the-modern-vw-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley (The VW Years) Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Modern Bentley Cars &#8211; The VW Years<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">1998 &#8211; Present<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Vickers wasn\u2019t really in the business of luxury car building, and in 1997 announced it would sell off the Crewe factory and the car-making side of the firm. The cost of developing new models was becoming prohibitive. VW ended up acquiring the company and the rest&#8230; well, that&#8217;s history. Bentley has gone on to break production records almost every year, churning out modern and amazingly competent luxury GTs, and now even SUVs.<\/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\/634_GT_Pikes-3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bentley Models from 1998 to Present<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Vickers wasn\u2019t really in the business of luxury car building, and in 1997 announced it would sell off the Crewe factory and the car-making side of the firm. The cost of developing new models was becoming prohibitive. BMW&nbsp;expressed an interest, so did&nbsp;Volkswagen&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mercedes-Benz.&nbsp;At the last minute, Volkswagen AG made a big move and purchased the company from Vickers in 1998. BMW refused to lose the battle, and thanks to a pre-arranged agreement between Rolls-Royce PLC and BMW, the Bavarian company managed to acquire the license to use the Rolls-Royce name and logo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">In the end, Volkswagen AG agreed to build cars under the Bentley brand only, conceding the Rolls-Royce brand to BMW.&nbsp;Volkswagen wasted little time in differentiating the new Bentley era from the Rolls-Royce\/ Vickers era. The biggest investment program in Crewe\u2019s history went ahead with over \u00a3500 million spent to rebuild and re-equip the entire Crewe factory, re-engineer and improve the Arnage and develop new models. The first model produced was a thoroughly modern two door coupe and boy did the new Continental GT wow crowds and sell like hotcakes. It was followed by the four door Continental Flying Spur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">It wasn\u2019t until the Arnage was retired that, a brand new \u201cGrand Bentley\u201d was introduced, invoking the \u201cMulsanne\u201d name once again. Bentley models now have their underpinnings from VW group platforms, and very little remains of the pre-Volkswagen Era, except the Crewe factory HQ. Most recently, the Bentley brand has offered its first SUV and while enthusiasts hate it, the model sells well and will be a huge commercial success.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Bentley Cars &#8211; The VW Years 1998 &#8211; Present Vickers wasn\u2019t really in the business of luxury car building, and in 1997 announced it would sell off the Crewe factory and the car-making side of the firm. The cost of developing new models was becoming prohibitive. VW ended up acquiring the company and the rest&#8230; well, that&#8217;s history. Bentley has gone on to break production records almost every year, churning out modern and amazingly competent luxury GTs, and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":817167,"parent":354531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-817158","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 VW Years) Models - The Modern Bentley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Volkswagen AG made a big move and purchased the company from Vickers in 1998. 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