drove around the world in eighty days in a three and a half liter a bentley that says in its day the three and a half liter was described as combining the power of an express train with the tranquility of a sailboat today you might say it combines the reliability and sportiness of a bentley with the uncompromising quality of a rules and he has the numbers to prove it of the two thousand four hundred twenty two darby bentleys ever built some seventy percent are still around today that alone makes the car a classic but there s more as a remodeled rules royce this bentley is one of the first representatives of what s now known as platform strategy so for christophe the bentley three an athlete is definitely a milestone an automotive history. in the post-war era rolls royce took badge engineering to the extreme. except for the emblems and hood ornaments most bentleys