101 Years of Bentley History... In 20 Minutes 

Thanks Keir!

I've never owned one Keir, but thanks to you and all that work there for producing awesome vehicles, cheers Ant.

Pride of the town 👍🏼

Greetings to Crewe! I was in your plant a few times over the last years and it was amazing everything. Greetings from an engineer of a certain middle/ northern German car manufacturer that you as a Bentley employee definitely know but not necessarily love since the acquisition. I wish I would work around your guys cars more often! The last thing I did with Bentley was configuring and planing the commissioning in the production for the ECUs and it was fun doing all those special functions you usually don’t have in the „regular“ cars. Oh and it’s lovely how much time you have in your production line, so not such a headache to optimize the time the ECUs need until their fully programmed and working haha. Talking about multiple seconds more time instead of fighting for tenths and hundreds of seconds is a really relaxing thing!

Was a cool vid, bro. Enjoyable and educational (in the best sense).

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Ha, this 'brand' is no more. It was bought by Volkswagen and destroyed. It was destroyed immediately back when VW bought it. Volkswagen just takes other Volkswagens and puts on a "New-Beetle'd" vaguely Bentley-like shape on it, with those typical ridiculous blobby round headlights VW puts on anything 'retro' they do. Bentley is not actually designed or made by anything British, it's totally controlled by VW's Germans and integrated into the overall VW system, using platform sharing and maximum utilization of purely VW parts. "Volks-Bentleys" on front-wheel-drive-based VW platforms, with VW engines, VW everything are not Bentleys in the slightest.

@@pistonburner6448 that is perhaps true. But I see it differently. I see the spirit of the brand alive through the great design, the elegance, the performance and the sumptuous luxury while VW provides the engineering and the relative reliability that make it an actually feasible choice for even the most rational of buyers.

​@@nagylevi3827 Design dictated by the underpinning VW front-wheel-drive-based platforms or often whole complete Volkswagen cars which are only rebadged, designed by ze Germans of Volkswagen, based on orders by ze German bosses of Volkswagen. (Note, I have nothing against Germans, this is directed at VW and also their lie of Bentley having anything at all to do with the UK anymore) The performance? It's understeer. It's front-heavy horribleness, as the car is doomed from the very start because of the VW platform which places the engine in front of the front axle etc. Not to mention all the steering parts, chassis, suspension is all Volkswagen stuff so of course it's some of the worst in the car world. Putting in a big VW engine with lots of turbo boost giving it an ok 0-100km/h time does not mean "performance" nor anything Bentley. There is absolutely no elegance in mass-produced, calculated, made-to-order-for-the-marketing-team Volkswagen stuff. Literally even the design is just Volkswagen "New Beetle'ing" it. Even the way Bentley has marketed itself in motorsport after VW bought it is simply rotten! They made that travesty of a GT3 car in which they changed literally everything about it to be the opposite technically and conceptually to what the road car was, and then had the gall to market their road cars with it! That massive rule-bending monstrosity was a huge joke on the circuits but underneath the joke was even worse. By changing literally everything including the engine block, engine concept, drivetrain, driver position, body, absolutely every bit of the car and then still pretending it has anything to do with their way of making cars was pathetic. VW didn't realise the irony of having to do the exactly the OPPOSITE of what the cars they really sell in order to perform well! VW provides reliability??? Now you're just taking the piss... Also note that VW does not excel in any area of engineering, it literally only focuses on minimising cost by having joint platforms and parts sharing plus using marketing and corruption to increase their production volumes for the sake of profitability. I really mean it: VW is not great at any aspect of engineering automobiles, none. They have bought in some tech, and most of their stuff comes from suppliers. Even that they usually manage to ruin and water down in their pursuit of ruthless profitability and making everything tasteless, bland stuff. I mean in a way that's a given as anything starting off with their front-heavy platforms is impossible to save or get to be any good, but even the details they manage to make worse and more bland than they should be. Every aspect: they only care about their own formulas, low cost of production and above all marketing. They consistently make the most un-ergonomic user interfaces for the driver. So what if they buy in the most expensive thin veneers (from the same suppliers as to their other cars) to place on top of that same Volkswagen stuff? And then pretend to "manufacture" it in Britain when in fact most of the car is made in Germany or Eastern Europe, and there is very little simple assembly done in Britain. For much of their history they've straight up made the whole cars in Germany...no wonder since for most of their history the car has been exactly the same Volkswagen with just a handful parts and badges switched. Why bother, when there are so many other far more authentic brands, with an ounce of backbone and principle? And whose company is not owned by evil, corrupt elitists who really hate people like you, absolutely despise you and only want to pump you dry of your money so they can live their hedonistic ultra-luxury lifestyles and bribe our politicians to go against our interests, hurt us just so VW can make more money. That in addition to their straight-up crimes which have killed scores of people, and that's only the ones they've been caught for! (Sure, most other car companies have been found guilty of lesser crimes such as corruption in 3rd world countries, but there is a difference to what VW has done and their style of doing things overall.) Bentleys are for people who have absolutely no clue about cars, don't care about driving, have absolutely no style, and who gullibly believe all that baloney VW puts in their marketing. Bentley is a Volkswagen marketing product, everything about it is just purely calculated marketing and produced as cheaply as possible with ZERO thought given to authenticity.

Yeah and that's the issue! People say they want content more like this, but it took three days to film and gets me less views than talking in my study for an hour! I will keep at it never the less

Totally agree Tristan

Aston Martin: Line 10 - Founders set up company, goes bust. Line 20 - Enthusiastic new owner buys company, goes bust. Line 30 - GoTo line 20.

Gone are the days of pottering down Pymms Lane and having a look. The council of Cheshire East have been destroying Crewe for decades.

Fairplay installing a guard house and gate. Got to keep the riff-raff from mingling with the rich folk.

@Mike Younes It is a special breed of riff raff down the West end of Crewe. 😄

Ze Germans succeeded in the end to make landing and invade.

Corruption is Volkswagen's main modus operandi.

Thanks Scott!

Thanks Ed - I just need people to watch the things to justify the work!

If you like that then let me tell about about the legendary history of Tesla! 👇 .

He works very very hard! And has made every bit of the production/post production process extremely efficient... But mainly just works very very hard!

Yep, he is a hard worker alright!