Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars plus SUVs—and a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group since 1998.
Headquartered in Crewe, Britain, the company was created as Bentley Motors Limited by W. O. Bentley in 1919 in Cricklewood, North London—and became broadly known for winning the particular 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, plus 2003.
Prominent models lengthen from your historic sports-racing Bentley 4½ Litre and Bentley Speed Six; the a lot more recent Bentley R TypeContinental, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage; to its current model line—including the Continental Flying Spur, Ls GT, Bentley Bentayga and the Mulsanne—which are promoted worldwide, with China as its biggest market since November 2012.
Today many Bentleys are assembled on the company's Crewe factory, with a smaller number assembled at Volkswagen's Dresden factory, Philippines, and with bodies for the Continental made within Zwickau as well as for the Bentayga produced at the Volkswagen Bratislava Plant.
The joining and eventual separation of Bentley and Rolls-Royce followed a series of mergers and acquisitions, beginning with the particular 1931 purchase by Rolls-Royce of Bentley, then within receivership. In 1971, Rolls-Royce itself was forced in to receivership and the UNITED KINGDOM government nationalised the company—splitting into two companies the particular aerospace division (Rolls-Royce Plc) and automotive (Rolls-Royce Motors Limited) divisions—the latter retaining the Bentley subdivision. Rolls-Royce Motors was subsequently marketed to engineering conglomerate, Vickers and in 1998, Vickers sold Rolls-Royce to Volkswagen AG.
Intellectual property rights to both the title Rolls-Royce as well since the company's logo experienced been retained not simply by Rolls-Royce Motors, but simply by aerospace company, Rolls-Royce Plc, which had continued in order to license both to the automotive division. Thus the particular sale for "Rolls-Royce" to VW included the Bentley name and logos, vehicle styles, model nameplates, production and administrative facilities, the Soul of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grille condition trademarks (subsequently sold to BMW simply by VW)—but not the legal rights to the Rolls-Royce name or logo. The aerospace company, Rolls-Royce Plc, in the end offered both to BMW AG.
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