Bentley Motors Ltd

Bentley Motors Limited

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Engineering Manufacturing Distribution
Fate	Acquired by Rolls-Royce Limited (1931) Acquired by Vickers plc (1980) Acquired by Volkswagen Group (1998)
Founded	18 January 1919; 98 years ago (1919-01-18)
Founder	H. M. Bentley W. O. Bentley
Headquarters	Crewe, England, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Wolfgang Dürheimer (Chairman, CEO) Woolf Barnato (Chairman 1922–1929)
Products	Continental Flying Spur Continental GT Bentayga Mulsanne
Production output	9,107 vehicles (2012) 7,593 vehicles (2011)
Services	Automobile customisation
Revenue	€1,453 million (2012) €1,119 million (2011)
Profit	€8 million (2011) −€245 million (2010)
Number of employees	3,600 (2013)
Parent	Volkswagen Group
Website	bentleymotors.com
Footnotes / references

Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is a British manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs—and a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG since 1998.

Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded as Bentley Motors Limited by W. O. Bentley in 1919 in Cricklewood, North London—and became widely known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 2003.

Prominent models extend from the 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 model line—including the Continental Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and the Mulsanne—which are marketed worldwide, with China its largest market as of November 2012.

Today most Bentleys are assembled at the company's Crewe factory, with a small number assembled at Volkswagen's Dresden factory Germany, and with bodies for the Continental manufactured in Zwickau and the Bentayga manufactured at the Volkswagen Bratislava Plant.