Bentley: Anniversary model is a Bentayga
EDGE IS REQUIRED The 200,000th vehicle was built by Bentley this week in its 102-year history. It is a Bentayga Hybrid for a Chinese customer. There is no word on the price of the car. What sounds like little is nonetheless a success story, with more than three-quarters of all vehicles built just in the past 18 years [...]
What sounds like little is nevertheless a success story, because over three quarters of all vehicles have only been built at the Crewe plant in the last 18 years. There are 155,582 units. From 1919 to 2002, only 44,418 vehicles were built.
Most vehicles still on the road
Twenty years ago, 85 cars were built every month, and today just as many are built every day. And the British luxury brand is proud of another figure: 84 percent of all vehicles built for the British domestic market are still registered. Models from the luxury brand are also in high demand in Switzerland,
Every model in a hybrid version by 2023
Bentley is looking to the future and plans to offer a hybrid version of every model by 2023 and the first fully electric vehicle in 2026. It's all part of the plan to make Bentley the world's first luxury brand to be CO2 neutral from factory to showroom.