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Whereas Bentley represents the opposite of that – it’s a tarted-up VW (I think the Continental is based on what used to be the phaeton?).
Bentley are part of VAG, but so are Lamborghini and Bugatti, the first generation Continental GT used the Phaeton platform and a revised Bentley version of the W12, but they’re built by Bentley in Crew, not Dresden, or wherever Phaetons were/are built, a platform is just that, a basic chassis that a wide variety of cars can be constructed on, it’s the way most modern cars are designed.
The next iteration of Bentley cars will, however, share the new modular Porsche Panamera platform
And aren’t Rolls Royce just tarted up BMW’s? One thing Bentley Porsche and Audi have in common is a proud racing heritage, I don’t think many Rolls Royce cars won a Grand Prix or Le Mans...
FWIW, given the money I’d love a Continental GT, I think they’re beautiful cars, but the Phaeton has its appeal as well, a car that looks like a Passat, but with a 600-odd bhp W12 engine and luxury fittings.
You can get good knife bargains in TK Maaaaax. Which, if I were yunki, I’d use to very neatly slash into the leather in the back seats before stealthily sliding a Yule log into the foam underneath, neatly closing the wound afterwards - tidying up with something from their by-the-till-knick-knack section.
No RR don’t have a racing heratige, but a heratige of extremely luxurious cars. Why would yo want to drive fast in an RR? In any case you’re supposed to be driven in an RR and not get involved in the manual labour of actually driving. People who buy bently’s buy them because they can’t afford an RR. RR bought Bentley back in the day to bring in a product line with racing heratige, but it was just a marketing exercise as they were based on the RR cars which were not particularly sporty. The more expensive RR cars are bespoke and don’t share platforms with BMW. The slightly less expensive and more ‘entry level’ models might do.
whos to say these cars are expensive? Bentleys and their like depreciate like a stone. My next door but one has one, a very nice example too, but it’s ten years old and cost him less than £20k, so less than a brand new specc’d up Ford Focus. He shops at Aldi and occasionally Tesco Express. Not sure he shops at TK Maxx though. He mostly wears Barbour type pretentious country clothing. Wax jackets and flat caps....you get the picture.