Man bought the cheapest Bentley Continental GT for $6,000 and actually ended up being quite pleased by it
- This guy bought the cheapest Bentley Continental GT he could find
- It had no service records for the last 10 years, and the engine light was on
- It only cost him $6,000
Published on Feb 02, 2025 at 2:00 AM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Jan 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
This guy bought the cheapest Bentley Continental GT he could find in the UK, and he only paid $6,000 for it.
A 2005 model, the car has done 120,000 miles, which is not that much for a car that’s 20 years old.
Still, there were so many red flags that the buyer chose to ignore.
But all in all, he’s not regretting it.
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Why this Bentley Continental GT was so cheap
Matt Goodwin, an auto dealer and YouTuber, bought the cheapest Bentley Continental GT he could find in the UK, sight unseen, for £5,000 – equivalent to around $6,000.
The car was a collection of red flags.
The engine light was on, and there was no service history for the past 10 years.
And $6,000 for a Bentley is an automatic red flag anyway, nine times out of 10, that’s asking for trouble.
Fortunately for Matt, this was the exception.
Even though the engine light was on, the Bentley’s W12 idled smoothly and ran perfectly.
Obviously he discovered cosmetic issues that might need fixing, but that’s inevitable for a car that’s been on the road for over two decades and, apart from the gearbox, the Bentley was pretty much good to go as it was.
“I think I’m going to keep this, which I might, I think I’ll do a gearbox service on it,” he said.
The reason why some luxury cars don’t hold their value
Some luxury cars depreciate faster than milk because of two reasons.
One, because they’re unreliable and two, because they’re not cheap to fix.
Less than $10,000 or even $20,000 for a Range Rover or a Bentley or a Rolls-Royce sounds intriguing, but so many older models built by these (and other) automakers are notoriously unreliable.
In some cases, they’re deemed so unreliable they end up in a field because it’s just cheaper to ditch them.
That’s not always the case, though.
There’s a Bentley Continental GT available from Copart that’s done over 500,000 miles, and it’s still in good nick despite the fact it was also involved in an accident.
