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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bentley Continental GT</span> Motor vehicle

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bentley Flying Spur (2005)</span> British luxury motor vehicle

The Bentley Flying Spur, known as the Bentley Continental Flying Spur before 2013, is a full-sized high-performance luxury saloon produced by Bentley Motors Limited since 2005. It is the four-door grand tourer variant of the Bentley Continental GT coupé.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bentley S3</span> Motor vehicle

The Bentley S3 is a four-door luxury car produced by Bentley from late 1962 until 1965.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bentley Continental</span> Motor vehicle

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rolls-Royce Motors</span> Former British car company (1973–1998)

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Flying Spur was a British tea clipper, built of teak and greenheart in 1860.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bentley Crewe</span> Bemtley Motor company office and factory

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<i>Andrew Jackson</i> (clipper)

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Rolls-Royce SZ and Bentley SZ refers to several Rolls-Royce Motors and Bentley Motors Limited automobiles produced between 1980 and 2003.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Volkswagen Group MSB platform</span> Motor vehicle platform

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Volkswagen Group W-12 engine</span> Reciprocating internal combustion engine

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