Start with what the Bentley S3 is: a 4-door sedan (car) / saloon / 2-door coupé / 2-door drophead coupé with 6.2 , built from 1962 to 1965, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Bentley S3 is a four-door luxury car produced by Bentley from late 1962 until 1965, as the successor of the Bentley S2.
The hardware
The engine is 6.2 . On the scales it comes to 1918 kg. 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: 3124.2 mm / LWB: 3225.8 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Bentley line-up the Bentley S3 has a clear place: it replaced the Bentley S2; it handed the line to the Bentley T1; the factory was Crewe (Bentley Crewe), United Kingdom. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Alfa Romeo Giulia, the Ferrari 250 GTO, the Pontiac GTO. Its Bentley stablemates include the Armoured Arnage and the Bentley 3 Litre.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Bentley S3 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.