Highlights
- Very low mileage of 24,770 miles
- Just two registered keepers from new
- MOT to April 2025 with no advisories
- Full Bentley service history to 24,250 miles
- Very high factory specification
The Appeal
The last Bentley to feature the firm’s in-house 6.75L V8 and the first fully independent new saloon since the 8-litre 90 years previously. Two good reasons to want a Mulsanne, but, of course, there are many more.
These twin-turbocharged limousines were fitting additions to the firm’s lineage of big saloons that could match supercars for looks and performance. This one must be amongst the high specification and lowest mileage available. It has covered less than 25,000 miles in the hands of two-keepers over 13 years. Despite the sparse use, the service history has been kept up to date with regular visits to Bentley, most recently 500 miles ago. It is a mark of the condition that the car has never had a MOT advisory.
The car has been in storage since 2021 but has been recently MOT’d. The current test runs to the end of April 2025 with no advisories.
This is a very highly specified Bentley with miniscule mileage. For those seeking the best in high performance sporting saloon luxury, is there really an alternative to a Bentley Mulsanne?
The History and Paperwork
- First registered 12th May 2011
- Factory specification indicates this was originally a factory Press Car
- One previously registered keeper
- Current keeper since 27th March 2012
- Special order Light Sapphire Blue now under a professional black wrap
- Re-registered with DVLA as black in September 2018
- Very high specification list detailed below
- Full Bentley service history as shown in photographs
- Last serviced by Bentley in 2021 500 miles ago
- In storage since 2021
- No MOT advisories through its history and no fails
- Current MOT to 30th April 2025 with no advisories and 24,770 miles showing on test
- Supplied with Bentley trickle charger, car cover and factory handbook
- Was recently purchased by an Austrialian client but due to the age cannot import to Australia
- Car has been marked for export with the DVLA in September this year but never left (remains in professional car storage)
- DVLA will require notifying and a new V5 logbook requested by the buyer
Factory standard specification:
- Order number 191862 version 2
- Supplied by bentley glasgow
- Light sapphire blue paintwork
- Linen hide interior with french navy secondary colour
- Bi-functional headlight with gas discharge lamp led supplementary main beam
- Headlight-range adjustment
- Jewel fuel filler cap )
- Body interior dark stained burr walnut (also wrapped black finish to compliment exterior)
- Additional cradle to rear for telephone privacy handset
- Heated, single-tone, hide trimmed steering wheel (4 spoke)
- Veneered picnic tables
- Electrical 'Naim for Bentley' premium audio system
- Battery charger (UK adaptor)
- Electric seat adjustment for both front seats, 14 way with 2 memory positions
- Front and rear seat heaters, separately controlled
- Front passenger seat adjustment from the rear
- Navigation system European with colour screen
- Power adjustable lumbar support to front and rear outer seats
- Radio (row) (rao 8aj) rear seat entertainment package
- Six disc dvd player
- Tyre pressure control
- Press car
- Powertrain 21" two-piece 5-spoke alloy wheel - painted
- 4-corner air suspension with electronic shock absorption control
- Space saving spare wheel
- Tool kit with jack
factory fitted options:
- Steering column cowl - match to secondary hide
- Flying 'b' radiator mascot
- Front licence plate bracket, large
- Left exterior mirror - convex
- Armrests for both front seats - fixed armrests to driver and passenger doors
- Drilled alloy sports foot pedals
- Electrically operated roll-up sun screen for rear window and for rear side windows
- Front and rear seat-mounted head-thorax airbags
- Seat ventilation & massage function to front & rear seats
- Separate power seats to rear, 10 way adjustable with 2 memory positions
- Veneered ipod drawer & minor gauge panel
- Wide vertical fluting to hide seat covering (sib n1a) without inlay to fascia & door waistrails
- Adaptive cruise control system
- Ambient interior mood lighting
- Anti-theft alarm system, passenger compartment control, backup horn and towing protection
- Rear view camera
- Safety steering column with electric axial and inclination adjustment with easy entry function
- TVtuner in addition to DAB radio
- Trunk lid power closing release from inside (electrically), includes power latching
- Vehicle tracking system - full fitment
- Windshield wiper intermittent control with light/rain sensor
- 21" tyre 265/40 105y
The Condition
- Factory supplied in Light Sapphire Blue
- Professionally wrapped in black in 2018
- Some marks to note to black wrap in photographs
- These include scuffs to front and rear bumpers, wing mirrors, doors and two wings
- Bodywork generally well kept with some deterioration to note in photographs
- Aluminium doors show light corrosion to some panels at top and bottom
- Fitted with four new tyres 500 miles ago in 2021
- Alloy split five spoke wheels in fair conditionally
- Alloys would benefit from refurbishment
- Factory space saver tyres with tool kit in boot
- Linen and French Navy interior in very good condition due to very low mileage
- High specification car with raft of factory options detailed above
- Burr walnut veneers professionally refinished in black as shown
- Some minor marks to note to interior and carpets as shown in photos
- Underside presents well with no advisories on current or previous MOTs
- We are advised that the air conditioning will require regassing
The Mechanics
- 6,752cc twin turbo Bentley hand-built V8 engine
- 8spd automatic gearbox
- Full Bentley service history to 2021
- Last serviced 500 miles ago
- Dry stored since 2021
- No reported running or driving issues
- No mechanical or running gear advisories on current MOT
The vendor tells us:
“Driving exceptionally well on tyres having covered less than 500 miles. Certainly driving as you would expect for a car having covered less than 25,000 miles.”
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