Bentley Arnage

Among the 62 Bentley entries in the MotorJury library, the Bentley Arnage holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1998. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Bentley Arnage properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Chevrolet Chevrolet Silverado, the Ford Ford Focus, the Peugeot Peugeot 206 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Bentley Arnage reads like this: the record lists its engine as 4.4 L BMW M62 twin-turbo V8 engine / V8 (1998–2000) / 6.75 L Rolls-Royce–Bentley L-series V8 engine / L-series Turbocharger / turbo/twin-turbo V8 (1999–2006) / 6.75 ; kerb weight is recorded at Green Label: 5120 lb / Arnage R: 5699 lb / 2007 facelift models: 2585 -; drive goes through 1999–2006: 4-speed GM 4L80-E transmission / GM 4L80-E automatic transmission / automatic / 1998–2000: 5-speed ZF 5HP30 transmission / ZF 5HP30 automatic / 2006–2009: 6-speed ZF 6HP; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Bentley story

Within Bentley's own catalogue the Bentley Arnage sits alongside the Bentley 3 Litre, the Bentley 3.5 Litre, the Bentley 4 Litre, the Bentley 4¼ Litre. The record names the Bentley Brooklands / Bentley Turbo RT as its predecessor and the Bentley Mulsanne (for Arnage R/T (SWB) / Arnage R/L (EWB) and Arnage "Final Series") / Bentley Flying Spur as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Steve Harper under Graham Hull (1991). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Crewe, England (Bentley Crewe).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Bentley Arnage was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.