Bentley Flying Spur

There's precedent for former royal vehicles selling for far more than their list price, including a Ford Escort purchased by Princess Diana in 1985, which fetched £650,000 at an auction in 2022.

The Times revealed last week that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's former Bentley Flying Spur was on sale at a Don Caster dealership for £125,000, but Woods said Queen Elizabeth's respect and popularity was likely to generate significantly more value.

I mean, I think we can agree it's generating more value than Andrew's, what have you.

Yes.

You, you acquire Kawhi Leonard from the Clippers in exchange for Brandon Ingram and Grady Dick, and it's highway, it's highway robbery.

And the only way I can describe it is, like, if you recei- if somebody gave you a Bentley Flying Spur in exchange for a C-Class Benz and a Kia K4.

That's what this trade is.

So, um, obviously-

And, and-

I'm not, not adverse to a Flying Spur

... yeah, stuff like that.

Like, I'd, a Flying Spur, now, I, I know this is the extent of my lack of knowledge.

Like, I don't know what options you can get in terms of propulsion for your Bentley.

Do they get...

Uh, yeah, that's a good question, actually

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A Bentley previously owned by Andrew has reportedly sold almost immediately after being advertised for approximately one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.

The Flying Spur, which Andrew used to attend Prince Philip's funeral, was listed by prestige car dealer Portland Autos in Bawtree.

Portland Autos acknowledged the attention surrounding the listing, writing, "One of our recent new additions seems to have made a bit of a stir online.

This is a fantastic car with a very interesting story.

I mean, just because I happen to say that, I clicked on Bentley and I can buy a, you know, cars under $20,000.

I can buy a 2006 Bentley Continental Flying Spur in Manassas, Virginia for $20,000.

See? See? There you

go.

I-- The only thing I ever bought that would, I would, I think I would consider, like, a status symbol was I got a, a Bentley, which is one of the cars that I sold last year.

It was a Flying Spur.

It was brand-new.

It was like three hundred and something thousand.

And this was...

So it was similar to a Bentley Flying Spur.

It had the W12.

It had all of the wild features and tech that the Bentley had-

And, you know, and that's both the standard Cayenne electric and the uh cayenne coupe um like you can see the especially the sort of like the front uh grill they have lots of like very intricate lighting elements they've made they've taken full advantage of that sort of like the reduced um cooling requirements that electric motors and batteries need um and and so on and they've really taken up that as like a blank canvas to have a lot of very intricate led lighting and So it looks, I think it looks good.

I don't think it's like quite as special as the other Bentley models, like the Bentayga and the Continental and the Flying Spur, because, you know, those from an exterior perspective, those models use, you know, special techniques, like in particular the Continental and the Flying Spur, they use special techniques like super forming and so on.

And this looks a little bit more, generic but you do have like they've said you have this split headlight design which is very you know like on trend at the moment and the main headlights have these two vertical uh drls which are supposedly inspired by the old uh what is it i think the old continental uh older continental models and the arnage and and so on um So I don't know, Sandeep, what are your thoughts on the exterior design? Is it too generic, or do you think it's sort of different enough for the Bentley brand?

I think the rear looks really good.

Yeah, agreed.

Bentley needs to compete on craftsmanship, and I think that's what they've tried to do.

I'm a bit disappointed that, unfortunately, unlike the Continental and the Flying Spur, there's no rotating display that can be hidden away entirely.

They have to have this fixed screen, which I guess makes sense, given the underpinnings of the car, of course.

WLTP subject to approval.

It was unveiled in London today, and the Torquale, I think I'm saying it right, not Torquale, like snorkel, Torquale, like a mountain range, apparently, becomes Bentley's fourth model line, alongside Continental GT, Flying Spur, and Bentayga.

Bentley designed, engineered, and will build in Crewe, England, the vehicle almost a decade after the discussion of its first EV began.

And of course, it is related to the Porsche Cayenne.

Yeah

... and the new f- the, both the Flying Spur and the Continental GT-

Have more of that front end

... don't have that.