{"id":392355,"date":"2021-01-07T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=385714"},"modified":"2024-02-19T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:21:34","slug":"bentley-sells-more-than-ever-in-101-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/bentley-sells-more-than-ever-in-101-year-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley sells more than ever in 101-year history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2020 might not have been the easiest year for car manufactures, but it seems that didn&#8217;t stop Bentley from achieving record sales with a total of 11,206 cars delivered in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley Motors, located in Crewe, the United Kingdom, increased global sales by 2% over 2019. Reaching an all-time record number of sales since the British marque was founded 101 years ago, and this while the production line was halted for 7 weeks from March 2020, after which they were only running at 50% output.<\/p>\n<p>The Americ market grew by 4%, still maintaining the biggest market share for Bentley, but China increased sales by 45% taking second place while sales in Europe declined by 18% in third place. The Asia Pacific region held onto fourth place with a 6% increase, while the United Kingdom took fifth place with 22% fewer sales compared to 2019. It might sound strange, but only 735 Bentley were sold in the Middle East last year, while 852 were sold in that region in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-385721 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that the beautiful Bentley Continental GT and the GT Convertible reached a full year of sales in 2020, contributing no less than 39% of overall sales. The magnificent-looking, brand new Flying Spur boosted sales allover the world, especially when the V8 version was revealed in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-385720 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bentayga sales still remain strong, mostly thanks to the introduction of the all-new luxury SUV evolution that was slightly delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Bentley Bentayga remains the best-selling model in the Bentley lineup, taking 37% of global sales on her own, and things don&#8217;t seem to be slowing down for 2021 either as Bentley plans to introduce the Bentayga Hybrid, one of nine new models they intend to unleash onto the market in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-385719 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-385718 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-385717 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/record_sales_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 might not have been the easiest year for car manufactures, but it seems that didn&#8217;t stop Bentley from achieving record sales with a total of 11,206 cars delivered in 2020. Bentley Motors, located in Crewe, the United Kingdom, increased global sales by 2% over 2019. Reaching an all-time record number of sales since the British marque was founded 101 years ago, and this while the production line was halted for 7 weeks from March 2020, after which they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":392535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464,255],"tags":[508,465],"class_list":["post-392355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bentley","category-news","tag-record","tag-bentley"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bentley sells more than ever in 101-year history<\/title>\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\/bentley-sells-more-than-ever-in-101-year-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bentley sells more than ever in 101-year history\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2020 might not have been the easiest year for car manufactures, but it seems that didn&#8217;t stop Bentley from achieving record sales with a total of 11,206 cars delivered in 2020. 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