When Bentley was staring down the barrel of financial ruin after being owned by Rolls-Royce for decades and then being caught up in a bidding war between Volkswagen and BMW, it needed a statement model to usher in a new era and, more crucially, to sell well to ensure its survival. The Continental GT was that very model, combining the solid underpinnings of its new VW AG owner with W.O. Bentley’s philosophy of human craftsmanship to create one of its most successful cars of all time.
