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Vintage Bentley Sells for $1 Million at Brooklands Auction

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Auctions

Think Bentleys have big engines nowadays? then you should see some of the monsters they used to make back in their heyday. Like this, the 4½ Litre.

Now the 4.5-liter displacement by itself may pale in comparison to some Crewe's engines now, like the 6.75-liter V8 and the 6-liter W12. But the 4½ Litre had only four cylinders. And since its construction in 1931, this particular example traveled the world, held by owners in England, the United States, South Africa, Kenya and Japan. Now it's been sold in the inaugural auction by Historics at Brooklands for an impressive £670,500, equivalent to nearly $1 million USD.

Gallery: 1931 Bentley 4½ Litre Vanden Plas Open Tourer by Harrisons

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2006 Jaguar XJ Vanden Plas

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

It's not exactly snow-friendly but the 2006 Jaguar XJ Vanden Plas is one luxurious ride. An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette points out the highlights the features of this car including 18-inch alloy wheels, burl walnut veneers with Peruvian boxwood inlay, leather seating with contrast piping, 16-way power front seats and a DVD-based satellite navigation system. The interior features lamb's wool rugs, DVD screens in the backs of the headrests and fold-down picnic trays in the bag. It has a 400-horsepower, 4.2-liter V-8 engine and sells for $74,995. The author's main quibble with the car is that snow-handling, apparently the car has a tendency to fishtail.

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