Bentley Heritage Storage Places Its Previous On Show At Crewe Manufacturing facility

Over the past 18 months, Bentley has labored to broaden its Heritage Assortment. It now options 42 vehicles – 34 road-legal fashions and eight race vehicles. Twenty-two will reside within the automaker’s new Heritage Storage situated on its campus in Crewe, UK.

The storage sits in what was as soon as the automaker’s “undertaking discussion board.” That is the place Bentley deliberate and developed the 2003 Continental GT. The brick constructing was constructed within the Thirties, that includes massive, ethereal home windows. That is the primary time Bentley has been capable of preserve its Heritage Assortment on its campus.

“Having now rebuilt the Assortment to totally chart our historical past, we’ve an ongoing dedication so as to add to it with every vital new mannequin we launch,” mentioned Mike Sayer, the top of Bentley’s Heritage Assortment.

The storage presently homes Bentley fashions courting again to 1919, nevertheless it’ll finally function vehicles inbuilt Crewe from 1946 onwards. Bentley will show Important Cricklewood fashions and Derby-era ones within the CW I Home, which the corporate plans to redevelop quickly. The gathering’s race vehicles will kind a 3rd and separate show. Bentley will use the Heritage Storage for inner briefings and exterior shows.

Those that get the chance to tour the storage will see vehicles just like the EXP2, the second automobile W.O. Bentley constructed, and the oldest mannequin on the earth. It’s going to sit alongside classic rides just like the 1929 Pace Six and the 1930 8 Liter. The gathering has newer metallic, too, like the primary Continental GT to roll off the meeting line in Crewe, the Continental GT V8S, and the 2019 Bentayga Hybrid.

Each automobile in Bentley’s Heritage Assortment is in full working order and in road-legal situation. In keeping with Sayer, the storage brings Bentley’s historical past to “vivid life,” permitting the automaker to “actively reference our previous whereas settling the course for our future.” Guests to the manufacturing facility will now have the ability to view Bentley’s historical past in its entirety, and the gathering will develop with every new mannequin. The long run appears to be like shiny for the model.