Start with what the Bentley Brooklands is: a 4-door saloon with 6.75 , built from 1992 to 2011, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. What it meant takes a little longer.
Where it came from
Bentley Brooklands is the name of two distinct models produced by British automobile manufacturer Bentley Motors. The first Brooklands was a full-size luxury saloon, launched in 1992 to replace the Bentley Mulsanne and in turn succeeded by the Bentley Arnage in 1998.
Bentley resurrected the nameplate in 2007 with the Brooklands Coupé, a 2-door, 4-seater hardtop coupé version of the Bentley Azure. It was made between 2008 and 2011 in limited numbers. These cars were named after Brooklands, a banked race track in Surrey, where Bentley obtained some of its greatest triumphs in the 1920s and 1930s.
Under the skin
The engine is 6.75 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a 4-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is SWB: 3061 mm / LWB: 3162 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
In the Bentley line-up the Bentley Brooklands has a clear place: it replaced the Bentley Eight / Bentley Mulsanne S; it handed the line to the Bentley Arnage; the factory was Crewe, England (Bentley Crewe), United Kingdom. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Renault Twingo, the GM (General Motors) Hummer H1, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Nearby in the Bentley catalogue sit the Armoured Arnage and the Bentley 3 Litre.
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Bentley Brooklands Coupé