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march 26, 2021 - Bentley
Bentley celebrates manufacturing milestone of 200,000th luxury car
- 200,000th #Bentley since the birth of the marque in 1919, commemorated at the home of company in Crewe
- Over 75 per cent of 101 years of production hand-built at #Crewe factory in last 18 years
- Landmark vehicle is appropriately a Bentayga Hybrid – signalling Bentley's shift to electrification
- To mark the occasion, the oldest #Bentley in existence, EXP 2, stands proudly alongside the 200,000th car, with Bentley's longest serving colleagues witnessing the moment
- On-going success of best-selling Continental GT Grand Tourer and Bentayga SUV key to this historic achievement
- Current daily production, 85 cars per day, equals monthly production numbers of two decades ago
- Ambitious plans, targeting sustainable luxury mobility leadership, revealed last year in Bentley's ground-breaking Beyond100 strategy
- Company aims to be end-to-end carbon neutral by 2030 with entire model range switched to battery electric vehicles
(Crewe, 26 March 2021) Bentley Motors has celebrated the 200,000th luxury car built in the company’s illustrious 100-year-plus history. The Bentayga Hybrid, destined for a Chinese customer, met the oldest surviving #Bentley, EXP 2, and a number of long serving colleagues, as it rolled off the production line at the home of #Bentley in #Crewe this week. This crowns an extraordinary 20-year period in which the success driven by modern day models such as the Continental GT and Bentayga has truly changed the face of #Bentley Motors.
The manufacturing milestone is even more remarkable when considered that the 200,000th car is the latest in 155,582 vehicles built at #Crewe since 2003 – the breakthrough year the Continental GT was originally launched as the first model of the modern #Bentley era. Today, #Bentley is building 85 cars per day, the same output in one month two decades ago.
In comparison to Bentley’s modern era, in the year of Bentley’s first existence, 1919, through to 2002, the company built 44,418 luxury cars – 38,933 of them in #Crewe. Among that total were many iconic models of their time, including the #Bentley Blower, the R-Type Continental, Mulsanne, Arnage and Azure. Incredibly, records show that 84 per cent of all cars built for the UK market are still on the road today.
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200k - 1 - hero
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200k - 2 - current production
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200k - 7 - Continental GT collection
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200k - 8 - Flying Spur 40k
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200k - 9 - EXP 2 Cricklewood
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200k - 10 - 3-Litre production Cricklewood
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