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Want to cool car? Not a problem - you just need to know what to look for. Here are the classic Bentley and Rolls-Royce models that are sold at a surprisingly low price.

Last September, in London, one lucky one was given 1.1 million dollars for Bentley R-Type Continental Fastback Sports Saloon 1955. The perfect condition, classic smooth lines of the case and a powerful six-cylinder engine undoubtedly justify such a cost. But there are no such money for everyone.

Good news: You do not have to give the last shirt to get a classic Bentley.

The sophisticated buyer can meet in mid-price - 31 thousand dollars for Arnage and less than 25 thousand per Brooklands, reports Bloomberg with reference to Hagerty data. The maintenance of vintage Bentley will no longer, and the car itself is hardly high in price, but at the same time will never depreciate.

Once driving, you will feel yourself the richest man in the world.

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On the price tag of the standard Bentley R Continental (such as this instance of 1954) will be born with six zeros. Newer Bentley models are much less

"Not so little cars Rolls-Royce and Bentley can be purchased at the lowest price," says Jonathan Klinger, a representative of Hagerty. "To the one who disassemble in the auto industry, one name Rolls-Royce or Bentley will say everything."

To date, they "properly" are estimated in the automotive market, says Klinger.

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Rolls Royce Bentley Arnage 2002

This means that such rare models like Silver Seraph Rolls-Royce (production from 1998 to 2002) and Bentley Arnage (from 1998 to 2009) can be bought no more toyota crossoverBut get a car with a unique personality and style.

"An experienced buyer can observe the car market and for five years with expecting an increase in the value of its Arnage," says Klinger. - Moreover, we are talking about Arnage - over the next two years it makes sense to trace the fluctuations in its price. "

Or, for example, a convertible coupper Rolls-Royce Corniche, which was produced from 1971 to 1995. Corniche came to the shift Silver Shadow and made a revolution in the British car industry, presenting the driver V8 engine and self-regulating suspension.

Silver radiator grille with a mandatory figure "Ecstasy Spirit" on the hood, wide dashboard With elements of polished wood, thin steering rim, solid, but elastic seats and modern technology in the interior (radio, stove, air conditioning) - thanks to the elegant parts of Corniche not only beautiful, but also universal.

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Rolls-Royce Corniche

average cost Corniche first generation in perfect condition - only 34.3 thousand dollars; If the condition is simply acceptable, then the price will not be above 25 thousand.

Anthony James, an artist from Los Angeles, a few years ago acquired a budget Corniche 1981. Since the purchase, he drives it every day:

"I bought Corniche because it was distinguished among other cars - a real elegant Briton. Moreover, its functional characteristics are not lagging behind. "

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Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible

There are cons: car service Corniche level can exceed the car itself. James, fortunately, there is an indispensable friend - a reliable mechanic who helps him for a symbolic fee, but it was so lucky.

Klinger learned that Bentley dealers from Los Angeles take 35 thousand dollars for the repair of one turbocharger of the new CONTINENTAL model. The spare part in the online store will cost approximately 1.5 thousand.

Wishing to become the owner of modern classics - Rolls-Royce or Bentley - it is necessary to require the seller a detailed service history. Avoid mistakes - do not neglect the repair and do not take a "killed" car, if you do not want to resurrect it yourself and are not ready to give member the mechanics.

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Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph

But most importantly - be patient. The cost of the latest Corniche and Arnage models over the past few years increased by about 1 thousand dollars a year, however, Hagerty warns that the situation at any time can change and the indicators will start falling. So it is worth waiting suitable carAnd not to throw to the first one in an attempt to squeeze out of the attached tools at the maximum. These models will not go anywhere. Klinger says:

"If you are looking for a comfortable luxury car, then this is the best that can be found for little money. These prestigious stamps are at the peak of luxury - it was, there will be always. "

Prepared Tia Aryanov

On the first floor of the supermarket your house there is a department of "exclusive" goods. Clock, vases, figurines. As a rule, all this is done in China, but things are so richly covered with lacquer with an affordable luxury, so sit in the glitter of affordable luxury ... Of course, they are not so cheap so that anyone will buy them, but still much cheaper than things from the real antique shop.

After the Rolls-Royce Phantom was created under the BMW patronage, we needed years to get out at least on the planned level: instead of the "limited" annual circulation in a thousand copies, for a long time could not be sold and eight hundred cars. And here Ghost appears - also Rolls-Royce, but almost twice as cheaper - and sales take off in two and a half times.

And after all, also exclusive: about thousands of cars are produced in Goodwood, and the lion's share goes to China.

But one turned out to be with us.

Of course, it would be interesting to compare Ghost and Phantom among themselves, but we were lucky even more. Just a few days in Moscow turned out to be Bentley Mulsanne: in the evening he will go to England back to England, and now it is gently descended from the tow truck on the asphalt of Dmitrovsky landfill.

And one more Bentley - the CONTINENTAL Flying Spur Speed \u200b\u200bsedan - got to the polygon with his own way. Let him not so new, but this is the most that there is a direct competitor "Little" Rolls Roisu.

How longly looks "continental" Bentley next to Mulsanne! Mulsanne, as the British would say, it's The Real Thing - a real thing! Five S. even meters, almost three tons of steel, glass, natural wood and leather. Maybe not a handsome man, but he seems to create a gravitational field around him - attracts.

But if you need to make an indelible and at the same time a lightning impression, then Ghost is out of competition. Huge wheels, classic silhouette, "reverse" rear doors. Rolls-Royce! And who will squeeze at first sight that in front of you just ghost for thirteen million rubles, and not Phantom for twenty? Especially since Bentley Mulsanne is not so effective for seventeen.

Ghost - in detail. In these old-fashioned metal keys on the steering wheel, which are responsible for cruise control and for "music" ...

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And in how the IDRIVE interface selector is disguised: "Hot" buttons and control logic are saved

Steering wheel, deflectors, light control blocks and "climate", devices ... Family traits and details "under the olden" in the interior, but Ghost still looks unusual modern for

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From the surname light control unit disappeared slot for the ignition key - to get it out of his pocket

Frame of family watches in shape is unobed with a block of keys of the electromechanical "handler", which to the left of the central display

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Landing in Rolls-Royce - already ceremony. You click the button on the keychain - and the spirit of ecstasy is rising above the radiator grille. You can drag both chrome-plated door handles on yourself - and the salon will swing, like an expensive folio. Snow-white leather, dark veneer, light carpets ... Have I long gave trousers in dry cleaning? And sit down to go ahead or back?

The doors swap an angle to 83 ° and fixed in any position. In the ends of the front doors, branded umbrellas are hidden

On the one hand, Noblesse Oblige: Owning Rolls Royce is like to sit behind. But the British assure that Ghost is the driver of all ever released Rolls Royces! And therefore ...

Ceiling with flickering stars, like a phantom, on Ghost, it is impossible - only a glass panel for 18 thousand dollars

The messenger and shedding rear sofa. Adjust the height of the pillow can not be adjusted, and by default landing here is the most vertical. Like both other cars, Ghost in principle is designed for three rear passengers

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Rolls-Royce Chair is the most soft, profile is the most free. Set of adjustments of the seat standard, but change the location of the upper attachment of the seat belt

"Seven" windows control unit dressed in chrome

"This is elementary, Watson!" The round handle is set in the intensity of climate control, and two sliders are an approximate air temperature in the upper and lower part of the cabin

Exit to the street, as on the stage, is only after looking into the mirror. It is a pity, the button can not open the door - only shut

Individual monitors are convenient, but the angle of tilt tables is too dependent on the angle of inclination of the front chairs.

Inflectors of blowing and cigarette lighters - metal, but the lid under which the input video connections are hidden, - from the chrome chrome plastic

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I thought for a long time: our uncle Vanya was already taken by the place behind the big and thin battle - and without the Shadow of the Pietetheat for a couple with the siborist Andrei Mokhov led Ghost to the dynamometer.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed. The central console of the younger Bentley is the simplest, change the distribution of air streams only through the menu. Mulsanne is all clearer - there is only an obstacle to the uncomfortable joystick multimedia system. Rolls-Royce has a good half of the console, the blowing deflectors occupy, but the screen of the multimedia system is the biggest

Bentley Mulsanne. The central console of the younger Bentley is the simplest, change the distribution of air streams only through the menu. Mulsanne is all clearer - only complaints about the uncomfortable joystick of the multimedia system. Rolls-Royce has a good half of the console, the blowing deflectors occupy, but the screen of the multimedia system is the biggest

Rolls-Royce Ghost. The central console of the younger Bentley is the simplest, change the distribution of air streams only through the menu. Mulsanne is all clearer - only complaints about the uncomfortable joystick of the multimedia system. Rolls-Royce has a good half of the console, the blowing deflectors occupy, but the screen of the multimedia system is the biggest

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I look at the rest at the Bentley Playground. They were the time of the century, they were considered POLS-Royce, which were not seen and charge, right?

Ecstasy's spirit is also at ghost - at the time of parking the figure hides in the hood

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Mulsanna is ordinary doors. And he conquers when you find yourself inside. Beige leather, wide wooden plane front panel, additional dials on the center console ... The most cozy, most English interior! And in terms of performance - is hardly the best of all that we managed to see. And after all, the driver here is more convenient: you sit down, almost like a crossover (relative to the ground, the chair is high), and the seat itself turns out to be unexpectedly dense. I like almost everything - and a small grip steering wheel, and a classically located selector "Machine", and a large pedal node, and a clear organization of buttons on the center console, and two large color displays. I like even visibility, despite the dimensions. Is that these strange, as if inverted, the scale of the instruments ...

But before reviving the hood of a 6.75 l of canonical volume of the canonical volume, look into another Bentley.

Time is inexorably. And for eight years, the continental interior with two cockpits and did not lose the relevance, but also the infertility Volkswagen knobs-buttons did not have time to turn into antique fittings. And it is unlikely to turn. Few ergonomics flaws We know: too low landing, tiny mirrors, uncomfortable steering wheel switches and confusing climate control logic. But - a dense armchair, comfortable steering wheel And clear devices!

The past century for the creators of Bentley and Rolls-Royce passed under the flag of the unknown confrontation in a very narrow, but meaningful segment of elite cars. This struggle only spurned both manufacturers, but by the end of the XX century, both companies were on the verge of bankruptcy. The world of automotive giants could not afford the loss of two vehicles on the noise of automakers. Then Rolls-Royce was under the wing at BMW, and Bentley, in turn, moved to another German auto giant - Volkswagen. But on this, their confrontation did not end, which we will tell you about.

Bentley Flying Spur 2014 can be bought for almost 10 million rubles.

Let's see what here we have. And we have on the test - Bentley Flying Spur 2014, which has become lower and wider, acquired a silk gloss, softer suspension and stabilizers transverse stabilityWhat is literally proud of the representation of Bentley. He began to resemble the Valya Rolls-Royce more, and then they came again in the fight for leadership in the Laksheri segment.

It is in this colorful color of Rolls-Royce Ghost 2014 that is an absolute stop-aiser on the streets.

Of course, it is important to pay attention to the price tag to which it is difficult to look items. Without looking for a floating course, comparable in dollars. So, Rolls-Royce Ghost. Base? Some 267.300 dollars ( or 13.183.000 rubles at the rate of the Central Bank - approx.CarLeader.). Hmm, and Bentley Flying Spur? 200.500 dollars ( or 9.888.000 rubles at the rate of the Central Bank - approx.CarLeader.), already better. But here we remember about endless sets of options, without which the car becomes quite mediocre, as far as it may be so for such money. So, for Bentley with options you can pay up to 50 thousand dollars. But here, anticipating our interest, Rolls-Royce unobtrusively tells about its package of options, giving almost 120 thousand US dollars ( or 6 million rubles as newLexus.Ls.- approx.CarLeader.), and breaks Bentley in the race for the highest price tag!

Of course, both cars are masterpieces of modern automotive industry. But here it was not without reminiscent of themselves here and there, the particles of oak plastic, which even Toyota herself would be given. Not to mention the low-end controller of the media system for the rear passengers in Bentley, inappropriate to the VW navigation menu.

Some little things B. new Bentley. annoy.

Both machines are driven by 12-cylinder bi-turbocharged motors with a huge power reserve, but let's take a look at their differences. In Luxury Ghost 2014, an engine is installed in 563 hp From the BMW 7 series, whereas the Volkswagen concern who unexpectedly appeared from the bodies of the Volkswagen assembly, Flying Spur has a capacity of 616 hp.

The key impression of cars depends on several factors. First, with less power, the automatic transmission in Ghost works without complaints, while Bentley cannot realize the entire herd of horses due to strange automatic transmission settings, which sometimes loses orientation when driving too active and does not make it possible to achieve 4.3 seconds to hundreds. Secondly, the distribution of efforts in Roll-Royce falls on rear wheels, while system full drive Bentley makes its own adjustments to the car habits.

When testing cars on the comfort indicators, Rolls Ghost, confirming its ghostly nature, showed a smaller level of noise inside the cabin compared to Bentley, as well as a third less transmission of vibrations and shaking into the salon from irregularities on the road.

All these subtleties are unlikely to influence the perception of the car. But we checked their external attractiveness using a dough on a busy street, and that's what he showed: Royce had twisted more attention and even forced people to turn around and get cameras, whereas his competitor Bentley for a quarter million dollars did not make a similar impression. Of course, we can say that any car, being painted as Ghost, will attract fairly attention, but the fact remains a fact - in order to show its status, the Rolls-Royce Ghost will be more suitable.

Photo Gallery: Bentley Flying Spur 2014 VS Rolls-Royce Ghost 2014 (+7 photos)

German daimler is preparing to leave the segment of the most expensive luxury cars. The concern will learn the production of elite representative limousines under the MAYBACH brand in 2013, he told his chapter Dieter Zetsche (Dieter Zetsche). Tsetse actually recognized defeat in the fight against the German competitors - BMW and Volkswagen. It is they who belong to the Rolls-Royce and Bentley brand - recognized premium grants. In addition to them, the place in the elite segment was found only for manufacturers of luxury sports cars.

Struggle forRolls.- Royce andBentley.

In 1998, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, known for the same name, was put up for sale. She also belonged to another legendary British brand - Bentley. Cars were even produced at one factory in English Cru. The fight for Rolls-Royce included BMW and Volkswagen. As a result, the top of the manufacturer of "folk cars" won. According to the German magazine MANAGER MAGAZIN, the purchase cost auto hydricant from Wolfsburg at 1.44 billion german marks.

However, it turned out that VW acquired only the plant itself, as well as the Bentley brand. The rights to the Rolls-Royce brand and the brand logo for 120 million brands - got the BMW concern. In other words, one autohygoant bought the rights to the release of limousines, the other - who belonged to them first. As a result, German autocontracens have agreed that Volkswagen will collect Rolls-Royce limousines in the CU as long as BMW does not prepare its own production site, and then focuses only on the Bentley assembly.

Rolls-Royce Phantom remains the personification of "luxury on wheels"

Rolls.- Royce fromBMW.

Especially for the release of limousines Rolls-Royce Concern BMW built new factory In English Goodwood. The Phantom model Bavarian Avtohygigant had to be created practically from scratch. Of course, she inherited a number of traditional traits for the prestigious brand - for example, a vertical radiator grille and a corporate icon - "Ecstasy Spirit". But a significant part of the aggregates and nodes are now produced at BMW plants. So, on Phantom, which appeared in the market in 2003, 12-cylinder engines collected in Munich. Body details Prepare in the center of BMW in Dingolfing.

The new Rolls-Royce remained the personification of "luxury wheels". The model is characterized by very solid sizes. The length of the basic version is 5.83 meters, flagship - 6.09 meters. Limousine, which is only available to order, costs several hundred thousand euros. On the Phantom database created a compartment and convertible models.

Rolls.- Royce "Total" for 250 thousand euros

In 2009, Rolls-Royce expanded the model line by releasing the Limousine Ghost. It is almost half the meter shorter than Phantom, but has common features with the "elder brother." For example, the rear doors are also opened against the movement. Ghost is focused on buyers at the age of slightly forty, which themselves do not mind ride behind the wheel of a luxury limousine. Part of the aggregates and the Ghost platform inherited from the elongated "seven" BMW and it costs much less than Phantom. Limousine prices begin with 250 thousand euros, reports DPA with reference to the chapter Rolls-Royce Torsten Müller-Ötvös. However, this "affordable" model is collected manually taking into account almost any wishes of customers.

In 2010, 2711 Rolls-Royce limousines were sold. This year, according to Müller, the demand only increased. For comparison: Concern Daimler sells only about two hundred cars for Maybach per year.

Svether Elizabeth second on the background of the "Royal" Limousine Bentley State Limousine

Bentley. from " folk car"

Very successful B. last years The Volkswagen brand Bentley has developed and remaining under the control of the Volkswagen concern. In terms of sales, it is significantly ahead of its former parent company. Only for the first nine months of 2011, almost 4800 Bentley cars were purchased. Best sales go in China. This year, the inhabitants of the PRC acquired over thousands of Bentley. True, the model line of the brand is much wider than the Rolls-Royce.

In 2002, the British Queen Elizavete the second to the anniversary of the Edema on the throne was presented released specifically for her Bentley State Limousine - modern limousine, the design of which is made in retro style. A car that reaches a length of 6.22 meters, cost a donor of several million euros.

Sports

Executive flagship Bentley - Model Mulsanne, released in 2009 - After leaving the market, Maybach will remain the main competitor to Rolls-Royce. Prices for the car, the length of which exceeds five and a half meters, starts approximately 300 thousand euros.

IN concern Volkswagen. Love to emphasize the sporty character of Bentley. Therefore, a special role is given to models with a body of a cabriolet and a coupe. For example, the latest novelty is the second generation of Bentley Continental GT. The car celebrated the premiere at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main. Sports character possess representative cars. So, Continental Flying Spur, which develops a speed of 322 km / h is considered the fastest serial limousine in the world. In addition, the management of the brand is thinking about the release of the luxury crossover. According to Bentley Chapter Wolfgang Dürheimer, the model may appear on the market in 3-4 years.