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The Bentley 4½ Litre is a British car based on a rolling chassis built by Bentley Motors. [1] Walter Owen Bentley replaced the Bentley 3 Litre with a more powerful car by increasing its engine displacement to 4.4 litres (270 cubic inches). A racing variant was known as the Blower Bentley.
W. O. Bentley wanted a more powerful car, so he developed a bigger model, the Speed Six. It was a huge car. Ettore Bugatti once referred to the Bentley as "the world's fastest lorry" ("Le camion plus vite du monde"). [3] [4] Bentley adhered strictly to his own assertion that increasing displacement is always preferable to forced induction: [5]
If you missed out on the 12-unit run of $2.1 million Blower continuation cars, the Blower Junior is your chance to get an 85 percent scale replica for a fraction of the price. Bentley Downsizes ...
The Bentley Boys were a group of wealthy British motorists who drove Bentley sports cars to victory in the 1920s and kept the marque's reputation for high performance alive. In 1925, as the marque floundered, Bentley Boy Woolf Barnato bought the company, leading to the creation of the famous supercharged Bentley Blower car.
Bentley sales continued to increase, and in 2005 8,627 were sold worldwide, 3,654 in the United States. In 2007, the 10,000 cars-per-year threshold was broken for the first time with sales of 10,014. For 2007, a record profit of €155 million was also announced. [41] Bentley reported a sale of about 7,600 units in 2008. [42]
A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
PROPAGANDA is a large collection of GPL-licensed [1] seamless desktop backgrounds included in various Linux distributions, and available via free download over the web.While no longer being produced or even officially hosted online, the collection consisted of approximately 15 volumes of largely abstract and surreal art, numbering over 1,000 images in total.