The Bentley 4½ Litre is a British car based on a rolling chassis built by Bentley Motors. Walter Owen Bentley replaced the Bentley 3 Litre with a more...
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The Bentley 4 Litre was a motor car built on rolling chassis made by Bentley Motors Limited in 1931. The 4-litre chassis was conceived and built in a failed...
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The Bentley 8 Litre was a large inline 6-cylinder super-luxury car made in various configurations by Bentley Motors Limited at Cricklewood, London. Announced...
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The Bentley 3½ Litre (later enlarged to 4¼ Litre) was a luxury car produced by Bentley from 1933 to 1939. It was presented to the public in September 1933...
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The Bentley 3 Litre was a car chassis manufactured by Bentley. The company's first, it was developed from 1919 and made available to customers' coachbuilders...
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historic sports-racing Bentley 4½ Litre and Bentley Speed Six; the more recent Bentley R Type Continental, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage; to its current...
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Bentley Blower No.1 is a racing car developed from the Bentley 4½ Litre by Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin to win the Le Mans twenty-four-hour race. The car was...
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The Bentley 6½ Litre and the high-performance Bentley Speed Six were rolling chassis produced by Bentley from 1926 to 1930. The Speed Six, introduced in...
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Clive Gallop (category Bentley Boys)
developing the engine for the Bentley 4½ Litre. If Bentley wanted a more powerful car, he developed a bigger capacity model. The Bentley Speed Six was a huge car...
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limousine, whilst the 4.3-litre B60 was used until 1955 to power the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith and Silver Dawn and the Bentley Mark VI. The B60's bore...
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plaque marks the building in what is now Chagford Street. Bentley's first complete Bentley 3 Litre car began road tests in January 1920 and the first production...
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Straight-four engine (redirect from Inline-4)
larger engines have been used in the past, for example the 1927–1931 Bentley 4½ Litre. Diesel engines have been produced in larger displacements, such as...
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races and hillclimbs. Fitted with a supercharged single overhead camshaft 7-litre straight-6 engine producing 200–300 metric horsepower (150–220 kW) and over...
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Hot Rod - Gooding & Company". Retrieved 10 December 2015. "1928 Bentley 4 1/2 Litre Le Mans Sports "Bobtail"". Gooding & Company. Retrieved 10 December...
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started in the first half of 2008. The Brooklands is powered by a 6.75-litre Bentley L Series twin-turbocharged OHV V8 engine, producing 530 bhp (395 kW;...
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2022, the Bentley Bentayga Extended Wheelbase, intended to replace the Bentley Mulsanne, was released. It features a V8 twin-turbo 4.0-litre engine that...
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development vehicles and therefore Mark IV the first Derby 3½-litre and 4¼-litre Bentleys. Mark V follows naturally from that but Mark VI became the last...
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the reliable 4½-litre tourers, the chassis strengthened after the issues from the previous year. They were assigned to more of the “Bentley Boys”: Frank...
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was Bentley's first independently-built automobile since the 8 Litre, which W. O. Bentley conceived. Unveiled initially at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance...
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more-sporty Bentley model would use a special twin-turbocharged 354 PS (260 kW; 349 hp) and 420 lb⋅ft (569 N⋅m) of torque version of the company's 4.4-litre M62...
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Woolf Barnato (category Bentley Boys)
Bentley was able to design another generation of cars, the six-cylinder 6½ Litre. However, the supercharged 4½ Litre (the famous "Blower" Bentley),...
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Sarthe on 16 and 17 June 1928. Bentley director Woolf Barnato and Australian-born Bernard Rubin in a Bentley 4½ Litre gave the company back-to-back victories...
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VIII, later still Duke of Windsor, commissioned a Weymann body on a 4+1⁄2-litre Bentley which was to have a high waistline with shallow windows allowing...
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ultra-rare McLaren F1 LM), a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing, a 1929 Bentley 4½ Litre ("Blower Bentley"), one Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, a 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC...
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selected coachbuilders as the first Bentley Continentals (see below). The Mark VI 4+1⁄4-litre used an F-head straight-6 engine 4.3 L (4,257 cc/259 cu in) in size...
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The Bentley Hunaudières is a concept car built by Bentley for the 1999 Geneva Salon International de l'Auto. It is powered by a Volkswagen 8.0-litre, naturally...
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1929, using an Amherst Villiers supercharger bolted to the front of a Bentley 4½ Litre, to boost its maximum power in the production version to 175 brake...
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Volkswagen Group (Bentley). Famous and iconic British cars include the Aston Martin DB5, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Bentley 4½ Litre, Jaguar E-Type, Land...
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have since followed suit. Bentley returned briefly to the Le Mans circuit in 2001, 2002 and 2003, winning with the Bentley Speed 8, painted in a very...
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Tim Birkin (category Bentley Boys)
tracks until 1927 when he entered a three-litre Bentley for a six-hour race. For 1928 he acquired a 4½ litre car and after some good results decided to...
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