Welcome To Bentley

One hundred years ago it was merely one man’s surname; yet the word Bentley quickly came to define the sporting car, combining performance and comfort with sophisticated engineering. Today that rich tradition continues into a new era and for almost the whole of Bentley’s century, Motor Sport has been testing, analysing and reporting on the marque, its racing and its magnificent vehicles – we even road-tested the ground-breaking 3-litre in our very first issue in 1924.

Success on the track came immediately for Bentley, and during the 1920s the firm’s racers effectively dominated that most famous of races, Le Mans. But the marque achieved something else: a unique aura of fame grew up around the characters who raced behind that winged ‘B’ – the legendary Bentley Boys, as often seen in the society papers as the racing magazines. In subsequent years that glamour continues to gild the story.

Collating nine decades of authoritative Motor Sport articles on the marque, this Collectors Edition is packed with quality photography and incisive comment on the machines, the history and the remarkable characters who created and raced these cars. Read about the penniless baronet and the millionaire playboy who dominated racetracks pre-war, the triumphant racing return in the 2000s, and the superb range on offer today, with our informed opinion on every model we’ve driven across a century of greatness. Motor Sport has been with Bentley all the way.

To read more about Bentley’s illustrious history and the drivers who have helped to forge a legend, visit the Motor Sport archive.

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