6,751cc Aluminum V8 Bosch Motronic Fuel Injection 241bhp at 4,000rpm 4-Speed Automatic Transmission 4-Wheel Independent Suspension 4-Wheel Power-Assisted Disc Brakes * Classic British Racing Green exterior * Immense Road Presence * Luxury and thundering V8 power * Clean CARFAX THE BROOKLANDS By the end of the 1980s, Rolls-Royce's re-branding of Bentley, begun in 1982 with the launch of the Mulsanne Turbo, had proved an outstanding success.

However, the sales graph that had climbed steadily upwards throughout the decade, reaching its peak in 1989, would plunge dramatically within just a couple of years because of the prevailing economic recession.

Rolls-Royce responded by rationalizing the Bentley range, dropping the normally-aspirated Mulsanne and Eight saloons and introducing the evocatively named Brooklands, the latter being in effect a Turbo R minus turbocharger but retaining the R's sports suspension and adaptive damping control.

THE CAR OFFERED Sporting a nationalistic scheme o...