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Since this video was posted prices have collapsed even further in New Zealand. People just dont want them, the examples on Trade Me sit for months and eventually are withdrawn, even examples now going for silly cheap money and they still dont sell. I guess the the fuel economy and the cost to run, when compared to a modern car, no one is prepared to take the risk. In reality there are only a tiny number of enthusiasts and a very large number of classics across the all the car makers. So what I am saying when you buy one of these you are pretty much stuck with it.

I think it’s a bargain considering the pleasure it brings. Take out the new head gasket, it’s a couple of grand a year to enjoy a gorgeous Bentley. Bargain if you ask me

❤ new to your channel, love it ! Greetings from Spain!

Great review. I’ve always fancied owning a Rolls Royce or a Bentley. That doesn’t seem too bad at £1600 per year. Almost a bargain I’d say! I have a 2004 Porsche 911, all the receipts for that average out at about £2000 a year over 120k miles, including,tyres and so on, as well as a lot of suspension and infotainment upgrades which weren’t strictly necessary but add massively to the driving experience.

Thank you for this video! It confirms my theory that maintaining a great car can be affordable if you have good independant specialists, good availability of parts AND if your car model is so mature that the weak spots are well known by now and specialists know how to fix them without blindly throwing lots of OEM parts at them. I don't think this would work for a Bentley in my native Germany as it does for you in the UK - so much as though I like those barges, I'll pass...

Very interesting as it is a lovely car. My thoughts, a main Bentley dealer will obviously charge Bentley prices, but a lot of the parts are used in other manufacturers cars, which are exactly the same product, same quality, but at at cheaper price (some other specialists will even know this). Also I was taught that if you need to change, for example one wheel bearing you change both on the same axle, same for shockers, rear brakes, front brakes, so then you don't get a similar failure only a few months down the line and have to pay twice, get it done at the same time and save some money I am not a car engineer, I am into electronics but I raced a drag bike in the 1970's so I know a little Rob

Fantastic presentation! I haven't seen your channel yet, but the immediate selling point is "the Internet is full of egos". I want to hear an objective presentation just as screened here. Thank you so much! Too bad the Internet is full of egos, and not of quality information. Well done, Sir!

Yhese are really trash. My Bro-in-law had a 2009 Arnage, mulliner T. Cost ~300k, every year he kept the trash cost ~$25K yo keep it running. Filled with electrical issues which are unfixable. The wiring harness was not configured correctly, steering rack leaked oil, head lights fogged, the Mulliner mags has small cracks in the magnesium and leaked out. The magnetic suspension and the air bags always leaked. Just a Total POS! Sold it to CarMax for 50K.

Fix the n/s bank on my Bentley turbo R . Replace head gasket £560 non franchise garage

so therefore beautiful Engliash cars are uneconomical?

The paint looks epic. I wonder what detailing costs have added to the total cost of ownership because I consider it vital to keeping a car of any age looking fresh and pampered.

I have an old Peugeot Boxer based Camper, which costs roughly the same as this annually. Similar mileage too. Nobody says to me …. “Must be a money pit” or such stuff. All to do with folk’s preconceptions.

I have 2 4.5 Chimaeras, one of which I've owned since 2009 and the other which has just been fully restored after many years. I love the whole experience. The Marcos is a very good car, but the Chimaera is simply the best value for money driving experience you can get. Very fast (especially with an Emerald ECU), comfortable, practical (big boot), handles well (especially with CORE sports racing suspension), sounds amazing and is extremely reliable (one breakdown in 15 years). There's a very good reason why TVR sold 6000 Chimaeras and Marcos only made 137 Mantaras. But I'd like to own a Mantara.

Doesn’t seem too bad. What do these bad boys go for these days?

has not discouraged me from getting a 2nd hand Rolls. just look at it, if you were my neighbour, I would have an excuse every day to look in your garage

Well, tyres for a Tesla Model Y are around £270 each, so that's something. To be honest, buying an old one like this and doing the work yourself would probably divide those bills by a factor of three. However, what kills it for me is the truly shocking fuel efficiency.

You nailed it.

If Honda built it , suspension failures 0 , head gasket failure 0 , fuel pump failure 0 . What a joke , appreciate it’s a luxury super car but where’s the quality ??

4.6is owner here and fell in love with it straight away. Like you was meant to be a stop gap for a year or so but I dont think I will ever sell it now. So much fun to drive and being the 4.6 is very rare especially in my part of the world. Few common issues over the last 3 years like window reg and door handle but nothing major I have not been able to fix myself. Looking forward to more years of great motoring with this car and over time getting it mechanically perfect and fully restored. Overall its actually pretty mint but I am fussy.

So an average of £1,684 per year. That doesn’t seem too bad to me. Over the same period of time I have owned 5 Range Rovers (not the sport but the full fat ones) and I have kept meticulously records on the costs and my average yearly costs for servicing and repairs ( and there are a lot if repairs on the earlier L322 ones) was closer to £3,000 per year. That figure was slightly inflated due to my last L322, being the Queens spec car (green with the same interior etc) and my intention to keep it as immaculate and standard as possible. That car almost broke me financially everything went wrong and even using an independent specialist, the costs were eye watering. So, I think that a budget of £2,000 per year to keep a luxury car in good condition isn’t too surprising.

Seems like it's worth budgeting roughly £3k-£3.5k per year for any very heavyweight luxo-barge.

I don't believe that it took over two weeks (96 hours) of full-time labour to change a head gasket. That is simply not possible. Someone was taking the p***.

Indicator Stalk - not stork. Stork is a bird

Really surprised how reasonable the servicing is compared to my Ferrari.

Just bought one, 1992 230TE, 7 seater, 31k 1 previous owner. FSH. mint condition inside. exterior are in good condition. what's it worth?

My W210 E55 AMG came with all the paperwork from the previous owner, he bought it new and had it 16 years. There were bills for over £70k but he was putting it into a central London main dealer for absolutely everything and £8k of that was for a paintwork and rust repair. 🙄

Stork..stalk...

Oooh That Aston. Perfect colour!

Not too bad considering the class of car this Bentley is. A timeless beauty

Lovely car, but the colour makes it look rather staid. I used to live opposite Mulliner Park Ward Coachbuilders on Bath Road, Turnham Green W4 a long time ago.

What? £175 for a fill-up?! My F56 Mini Cooper S takes just over £65 from virtually dry!

We have a beautiful Continental R. In the main it's been very reliable and last year we ventured through Spain & Portugal on a 3k mile trip. I was really surprised because the locals just loved it and even the underground car park attendants kept their eye on it. All those people knew we were enthusiasts but it was great for us to share the car with them. We are not rich well to do people, just people who wanted something a little out of the ordinary. This year it's doing my sons wedding so it comes with a great deal of happy memories, what more could you want.

Less than £2,000 a year in servicing and repairs. Not to bad for such a lovely car, in my opinion.

The head gasket is not an anomaly, it's a known problem and the one stopped me from buying one. If anything I am surprised it didn't blow earlier.

They are not a “hidden secret”. Many of us look at and perhaps lust over them…and, are perhaps (almost) seduced by the seemingly low purchase price that such cars can be had for. However, there is a simple and glaringly obvious reason that they are relatively cheap to buy, for such an amount of car. The reason is, 99% people realise that, despite whatever excuses or ‘man maths’ some people try to apply, that is a very, VERY expensive car to run and maintain! The figures presented here do nothing to dispel that. Most people, who pay for things like their car, out of their own earned money, perhaps have families to pay and provide for etc. They not even going to consider really buying such a car. Therefore, you’re left with, at one end of the spectrum, very young people with no or few other commitments than to themselves. I would suggest that these days very young people in such a financial position and who can just buy and maintain something just “for a bit of a laugh” are almost vanishingly rare. At the other end of the spectrum, you may have the retired Golf Club Gerald types, who similarly have no other financial commitments anymore. Thus, the pool of potential buyers for such cars is very small. For most of us, realistically, the ownership costs are…..well…totally unrealistic! Hence, they remain interesting ‘curios’ that we might fantasise about for a few minutes whilst browsing the internet or watching a RUclips video. But, nothing more. “The entry price to the nightclub is cheap….it’s the price of drinks at the bar where you get stung.” A great and very informative video. Thanks 🙂

Thank you for posting this rundown. It is very helpful to me.

I've owned a Bentley Continental R for 10 years. Ive owned a lot of luxury and performance cars. But the Bentley has cost WAY more to maintain than I was expecting. It's more like running an aircraft than a car. But they are like nothing else on the road. BUT some of the specialists are VERY expensive, that head gaskets bill being a prime example.

This was an exceptional video about an exceptional car 👌🏽

These are some of the most beautiful cars ever made. If I was after a modern classic, this would be up there, definitely.

£40425.00 over 24 years breaks down to about £1684.38 per year or £33.00 per week, rain or shine. Not bad for a car that is not used commercially. I can speculate that if it was used a lot more the cost would go down, although it may seem counterintuitive.

How do you gets parts? There are gobs of these in USA that are parked because they cant get parts, especially on these, many electronics that control transmission shifting. Even in the newer GT coupes that are based on the VW Phaeton have issues getting fixed. If we cant get parts over here how come you guys can over there?

Here's the problem I have with most cars like this......they don't get used enough. The sitting around is killing the unit. Not enough thermal cycling causes the gaskets and seals to let go. Give me a car that gets used every day with a service history.

A 7 Series BMW Masquerading as Brittish 😂 Come in Suckers. An Indian neighbor of mine 24.years ago Had an Arnage/Azzure/Aston Volante/ Lexus. The Lexus was by far his favourite Auto. Reliable/ Refined. He was a great Guy. Just fogot about paying tax. Ooopps.

Back in the seventies my friends were sitting around my kitchen table talking about what was acceptable as annual maintenance costs for our cars. We were all young Canadian boys and none of us had what I'd call a nice car. But the consensus was that if your car dinged you for a thousand bucks a year , you were in the sweet spot. That was then and since that time inflation has really skewed our notions of relative value. Your Arnage cost about 1500 pounds annually in maintenance. Call that $2000 dollars in age appropriate currency. I'd say that for the sheer pleasure of owning a bus like that , 1500 pounds puts you in that sweet spot. The odd head gasket job might make you swallow your tongue but you have to just pay up or lose your shirt. I think that fancy car has been (from a very narrow perspective) a cheap luxury.

What a stunning drivers car you have! For everyone commenting negatively, it's okay to not be a car enthusiast. You can go to your driveway and take out your humdrum econo car that gets good gas mileage and is driven by a CVT. There's nothing wrong with commuter cars, they're driven by commuter NPCs 😉 But seriously, for enthusiasts - true enthusiasts who have a love for the car(s) they drive, they see the cost of purchase and add a number atop that. That's what's required to not just purchase the car but keep it running. When you get a used car, you're buying into all of the previous owners problems and mistakes. Just do your homework by watching videos like this to get an idea of what the average cost of ownership might be. And remember that the cost listed here was for the LIFETIME of the vehicle, the cost over 24 years by numerous owners. If you know what you're getting into, it's a good idea to keep an amount set aside and like I said, add to the purchase cost of the vehicle as it's just the entry fee. Be aware of what common issues are by reading ownership forums, watching repair videos, etc. Get to know the car. For me and I'm sure many other enthusiasts that's part of the joy of the experience. Getting to learn about the car, it's faults and how to correct them. ALL used cars will come with a price that's more than the cost of purchase, to keep them running. Unless you're buying a CPO car, you're getting someone else's problems that might need mitigation. Whether it's your run of the mill Japanese car or South Korean car, or one of the reliable econoboxes from America or Europe, all cars will cost money to keep on the road. And while many people may get away with just doing oil changes, you'll often come across people who buy these cars who are of the mindset that they don't want to pay for maintenance costs and will skimp on the oil changes and cause major headaches for the next owner. Oil changes are the key to the health of your engine, for all makes and models. For example, I have a 97 BMW 540i, with the 4.4l V8 that's found not just in other BMW's but also Range Rovers and the Bentley Arnage even(The Green Label series) and the internet loves to talk about timing chain guide failure on these engines. But that's usually at about 150-200k miles, and even then it's not a guarantee that the failure will happen if the car had religiously maintained oil changes. Some people are on 250k-300k miles on original guides. But like the head gasket failures of the Bentley 6.75L V8, it's a one and done type of repair. I did mine when I bought the car, because it was at 197k miles and didn't have it documented amongst it's fairly detailed service history. But it was preventative, and now I don't have to worry about it for another 150-200k miles. So while the BMW V8 is infamous for these issues, it's not as bad as the internet makes it out to be. There's another person who commented on this video who as a previous owner of 2 Bentley Arnages said he would gladly buy another one, but specifically the Green Label series for it's BMW V8 which he said, and I quote was "Exquisitely reliable" Everything is relative, just know what you're getting and be happy with it. And if someone else is happy to pay for their car, why put them down just because you don't have one? You choose to drive an econo car, that's fantastic for you. Enjoy your car and let others enjoy theirs, don't get in another man's wallet and judge how he spends his money 😂😂💀💀

£40 a week. Not bad.

Oh my lord! Firstly id like to congratulate you on a simply gorgeous car! I'd like to maybe own one some day! As the owner of a 2005 Aston Martin DB9 i can sympathise with the running costs. Ive had it only 6 months and have only driven it on odd occasions but its fantastic. However the history file that came with it makes ahem interesting reading! Servicing is on a par with your Bentley but some of the invoices are staggering.thankfully had a pre purchase inspection done which showed up a few things which were rectified at the dealers expense so fingers crossed im good for a while. MPG on the Aston is marginally better than yours at an average of 19.7 mpg! But,like your Bentley the smiles per mile are immeasurable. Thanks for sharing.👍👏👏👏♥️

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If you buy one of these you're probably best befriending a retired Bentley mechanic who repairs and maintains them at home just for the love of it and doesn't charge because he's having so much fun.

Splen-did! Only a black-on-wood steering wheel would make it perfect (to me😊)