Bentley Mulsanne
Bentley's own flagship, designed from scratch at Crewe.
The story
The Mulsanne replaced the Arnage and shared its body with no other car. It kept the famous 6.75-litre V8, heavily reworked. Building one took about nine weeks, much of it by hand.
Inside
Leather that takes days to stitch, a ring of solid wood round the cabin and stainless steel fittings polished by hand.
In period colours
Tap a colour to respray the drawing.
Its V8 traced its roots to an engine first used in 1959.
Meanwhile, in 2010
A coalition government was formed, and a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland grounded flights across Europe.
Best-selling single of 2010: Love the Way You Lie by Eminem featuring Rihanna
Rivals of its day
Picked automatically: cars on sale at the same time with similar size, speed and price.
See the real thing
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Today's money: the launch price adjusted for inflation to 2026, using the Office for National Statistics price index.