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The two-door performance Bentley such as the Continental GT 2019 model has opened up the market to a different clientele.

Investing in a Bentley means spending the equivalent of a U.S. starter home on a car. The hand-built luxury vehicles still carried cachet in other areas, but sadly, in the U.K. the company kept losing sales. As its second corporate owner helped it discover new confidence in itself, Bentley began to release one vehicle after another that shook off the shackles from its first corporate owner and fitted itself for a crown from its second corporate owner. Just as the company seemed to re-establish itself with three original vehicles in its line, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The plans of the company, like those of many, went on hold. The plans to introduce the first of the company’s hybrid vehicles went on hold. Its entire development halted. Its plan to go electric got put on hold. Just to keep pace with its orders, the company had to transform its production process. Unlike other car makers, Bentley uses no

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Bentley: The Best in its Class