Bentley
Redline stocks a range of used Bentley sports cars.
Used Bentley Models Available
To have look at our range of used Bentley cars available in our Showroom simply click on your desired used Bentley model, to be given our extensive list & details on the cars.
Here at Redline we strive to supply you with the best used vehicles at very competitive prices. Our stock is always updated with new and used Bentley sports & luxury cars. We don’t just have used Bentley cars for sale, we also have vehicles from leading performance and sports car manufacturers such as Jaguar, Lotus, Porsche, Aston Martin, Mercedes and more. >
We don’t just sell used Bentley cars, we can also offer part exchange and finance packages. So if you need to sell your used Bentley car, don’t hesitate to contact us.
History on Bentley
Competitive motorcycle racing on the Isle of Man gave W.O Bentley a taste for speed, but he couldn’t find a way to satisfy his hunger for the power. The power came around for the Bentley brothers when H.M Bentley acquired the UK agency for the French Doriot, Flandrin & Parant. This company was a producer of cars between 1906 and 1926. W.O Bentley entered into the Isle of Man racing tournament, and on his first run in the Aston-Clinton hill climb he broke the class record, this was with his wife Leonie sat in the passenger seat.
W.O Bentley went on a trip to the DFP factory in France, this is where he noticed one of the Directors using a aluminium piston as a paperweight. He adapted the engines using the revolutionary material and used them to triumph in his racing meetings one after another. These lightweight pistons quickly became the secret ingredient in the Bentley success with the other competitors in the racing industry that thought that aluminium was too weak to withstand any inferno of the engine block.
The Great War started not long after this, Bentley decided that the main market for him would be to try and create Rotary aircraft engines; they produced a engine called the Bentley Rotary 1. This engine was to power the Sopwith Camel, a First World War single seat biplane fighter to become a dominance of the air.
With the war ending in 1919 W.O Bentley had ideas to carry on with a production, but this time he didn’t want to do planes or motorbikes he wanted to build something that would satisfy his own extraordinary high expectations as a driver, a engineer, a competitor and a gentleman: he wanted to build the best car ever.
W.O Bentley wasn’t going to let this task beat him; he was going to build his car!
It had taken him a year of grit and determination in his garage in the cramped and confinement of the Mews to build a chassis light enough and strong enough to live up to the driving experience Bentley wanted to companion the new engine.
With production established in Cricklewood, London, two more prototypes followed as W.O. Bentley laboured passionately to produce the car of his dreams, “A fast car, a good car, the best in its class.” And another eighteen months elapsed before the first Bentley was finally sold to Noel van Raalte, a wealthy and influential playboy, on September 21st, 1921.
Bentley Sales of all the new cars that they were producing started on a major decline. The performance credentials that the Brand has fought so hard to win on the racetrack was now a distant and fading memory among luxury car buyers around the world. The Bentley brand name and the way they were producing the cars was in trouble as there was a major decline in all the sales of the Bentley cars. Bentley decided that they needed a new car to appeal to the wider market and the loyal partners that had joined in with the Bentley Drivers Club.
Bentley produced the T2 and the Corniche drophead coupe in the 70s. These cars didn’t do very well in the market, and the public were losing more faith in Bentley. Bentley needed to turn their fortunes around and they needed to do this fast!
1985 was Bentley’s year, they produced the Bentley Turbo R, this enabled the brand to re-establish themselves in the market.
Bentley launched a Limited Edition Bentley Arnage Limousine this was followed in 2005 by the Bentley Continental Flying Spur.
