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£49,500 (Est: £50,000 - £60,000)

2001 Bentley Continental R Mulliner Wide Body Coupé

United Kingdom • 8 Nov 2025

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AI Listing Summary

This 2001 Bentley Continental R Mulliner Wide Body Coupe is a rare, right-hand drive model in Black Sapphire with a French Navy and Barley interior. With just over 53,000 miles and significant recent maintenance, it represents a well-cared-for example of Bentley's ultimate 20th-century luxury and performance blend.

Condition

8

The car presents superbly in Black Sapphire and has benefited from over £28,000 expenditure in the last few years. The interior looks simply fabulous in a combination of French Navy and Barley hides with dark blue carpets, dark blue Lambswool rugs and Burr Walnut veneers. The car has been subject to cosmetic improvement with a two week paint correction and detailing and further mechanical correction and preventative maintenance. It has very recently treated to an engine service by a Bentley Specialist where they reported ‘a clean bill of health’.

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Transmission:

Automatic

Chassis No:

SCBZB25EX1CH63540

Odometer:

52,192 miles

Reg Number:

Y932 BBA

RHD/LHD:

RHD

Introduced in 1991, the Continental R was the first Bentley in 26 years to not share a body style with a concurrent Rolls-Royce and was inspired by the highly collectible Continental R-Type of the 1950s.

The elegant two-door coachwork was styled by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley, a duo whose résumé included sports cars like the Aston Martin Virage.

Five years later, Bentley introduced a short-wheelbase version, dubbed the Continental T, that was equipped with an uprated engine developing 420bhp and an impressive 650lbs/ft of torque available at only 2,200rpm.

Bentley customers soon expressed interest in equipping the 'wide-body' Continental R model with the T’s more powerful engine, and the Continental R Mulliner was consequently introduced, as a completely new model, at the 1999 Geneva Salon.

The nomenclature was an homage to H.J.

Mulliner, the British coachbuilder responsible for the original R-Type’s breathtaking fastback bodywork.

The R Mulliner’s wide-body configuration of...