California man is giving up and selling his 2002 Bentley Arnage T as he's realized 'there's no such thing as a cheap Bentley'

This guy bought a 2002 Bentley Arnage T for about $19,000, but now he’s getting rid of it.

The small sum of $19,000 for an Arnage doesn’t sound like a bad deal, but it kind of was.

Mainly because, as the owner pointed out, there is no such thing as a cheap Bentley.

And wait until you hear how much this car cost him after just a year.

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It was cheap to buy, but not so cheap to run

YouTuber Nick Roshon bought a 2002 Bentley Arnage T for $19,000.

The car itself was a little over $17,000, but then he had to add shipping, taxes, and so on.

It was the cheapest Arnage T he could find at the time, which sounds great, until you learn that he’s actually already spent about $34,000 on it.

And that’s why he’s selling it at auction with no reserve.

“The most expensive thing you can do is buy a cheap Bentley,” he said in the video.

And he’s not wrong.

‘There’s no such thing as a cheap Bentley’, and here’s why

British TV presenter James May once wrote that when you buy a used luxury car, the keyword is ‘luxury’, not ‘used’.

Translated, a used luxury car is still a luxury car, and they’re never cheap.

“Most people think: ‘It may be old, but it’s still a Bentley’, but it’s the other way around. As in, it may be a Bentley, but it’s old,” he once wrote in a newspaper column.

The adage ‘If you can’t afford maintenance and fuel, you can’t afford the car,’ applies to an old Bentley just as much as it applies to a new Bentley.

You can buy it for peanuts, and everything will be just fine up until the moment something goes wrong, which it will, because most old cars are unreliable.

There’s a reason why so many of these cars end up being scrapped in large graveyards or abandoned in old barns.

And it’s also the reason you can sometimes find examples in good condition for a few hundred dollars.

There’s no point signing a four-figure check for a car if you then have to spend twice as much on routine maintenance about two months later.