It may have been tortured wrangling of the high-level corporate kind which saw one of the most quintessentially British automotive marques end up in the hands of a German people's car maker, but few could argue that the Volkswagen Group has been a very effective custodian of the Bentley brand.
Few things illustrate that better than sampling the cars which bookend 20 years of the reborn Continental, something which we were recently able to do courtesy of Bentley Motors’ own 2004 example. As you can imagine, Bentley's own heritage car is as good as they come and indeed could almost pass for a fresh-off-theline example, which makes it a perfect illustration of just what a step-change the Continental was from previous Bentleys;
