The manufacturing stage is even more remarkable when it is considered that the 200,000 cars is the latest of 155,582 vehicles built at Crewe since 2003.
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From 1919 to 2002, the company built 44,418 luxury cars, of which 38,933 were manufactured in Crewe.
Bentley Motors celebrated the 200,000th luxury car built in the company’s history over 100 years. Bentayga Hybrid, intended for a Chinese customer, met with the oldest surviving Bentley, EXP 2, and a number of longtime colleagues as it left the production line at the Bentley house in Crewe this week. . This crowns an extraordinary period of 20 years, in which the success driven by modern models such as Continental GT and Bentayga has really changed the face of Bentley Motors.
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Bentayga HybriD met with the oldest surviving Bentley, EXP 2, and a number of long-serving colleagues as it stepped off the production line at the Bentley house in Crewe.
The manufacturing stage is even more remarkable when you consider that the 200,000th car is the latest of 155,582 vehicles built at Crewe since 2003 – the revolutionary year, the Continental GT was originally launched as the first model of the modern Bentley era. Today, Bentley builds 85 cars a day, the same production a month ago two decades ago.
Compared to the modern Bentley era, in the year of Bentley’s first existence, 1919, to 2002, the company built 44,418 luxury cars – 38,933 of them in Crewe. Among this total were many iconic models of their time, including Bentley Blower, R-Type Continental, Mulsanne, Arnage and Azure. Incredibly, records show that 84% of all cars built for the UK market are still on the road today.
A major investment program at the Crewe plant since 2003 went hand in hand with the success of the Bentley Continental GT, the ultimate luxury Grand Tourer. The 80,000 individual units, to order, were built in January this year.
Bentley President and CEO Adrian Hallmark comments: “This production of the 200,000th car is just the latest milestone in Bentley’s extraordinary journey since its inception in 1919. In 2003, the introduction of the Continental GT represented a momentary transformation for the brand, and this Bentley alone, accounted for 80,000 sales out of our total of 200,000 and created both a new segment and a contemporary image base for the Bentley business. ”
Bentley will switch to full electrification – PHEV or BEV only – by 2026, then switch to the full range of battery-powered electric vehicle models by 2030.
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Looking to the future, Bentley Motors’ ambitious plans for car production were unveiled in November 2020, with its innovative Beyond100 strategy. The company aims to be extremely neutral in terms of carbon emissions by 2030, the climate of the Crewe plant being positive thereafter.
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Bentley will move to full electrification – PHEV or BEV only – by 2026, then switch to the full range of battery-powered electric vehicle models by 2030. The industry-leading Beyond100 strategy will transform every aspect of the business as Bentley accelerates in the second century luxury car production.
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