2007 Bentley Continental Flying Spur

Offered with just one previous keeper (yup, just the one!), this stunning Bentley Continental Flying Spur is finished in Dark Sapphire Blue with a blue and magnolia leather interior, which has the benefit of being (unlike many examples you see on offer) both timeless and classless.

Showing just over 65,000 miles on the odometer, it is only being offered for sale as the owner’s car collection also includes a new Range Rover and he doesn’t need two luxury daily drivers. First world problems? Maybe, but the Bentley wasn’t used for the whole of last year and the owner appreciates that cars deteriorate most quickly when they’re just sitting there, no matter how carefully they’re stored.

So, it’s now out of storage, freshly MOT’d, mechanically refreshed and ready for its new owner. For most of the last few years, it’s sitting safely in his garage underneath an original equipment fitted Bentley car cover.

The Dark Sapphire Blue coachwork is still in fabulous condition having weathered the past dozen years much better than any of us have. The tight shut-lines, ripple-free panels, and complete absence of rust point to caring owners and diligent storage and use.

The four alloy wheels are shod with good tyres (two of which are new) and are looking stunning courtesy of a refurbishment in 2014. The wheels cost well over £750 to restore, which is a good indicator that the owner hasn’t been afraid to pay the going rate to a specialist to get the job done properly. The photos do show a faint shadow of accumulated brake dust, but we can confirm that as we now have the car, this is just falling off with a wipe. Please organize a viewing any time using the Contact Seller button.

The underneath is clean and tidy but a fastidious owner might want to ward off future ills by touching up the underseal, which has flaked off in a couple of places.

Oh, and there is a tiny dent in the nearside rear door and the car generally would respond well to a good polish. Still, that just means engaging the services of DentMaster followed by a weekend with a bottle of polish, a clay bar and big bag of microfibre towels. Or investing £100 with an expert valeter.

The interior is standard Bentley fare, which means considerably nicer than any hotel you’re ever likely to have stayed in. Blue and magnolia is a striking yet subdued combination and a really good valet would bring the interior back to the same state it was when it was first delivered back in 2007. And, despite being registered in late 2007 it is actually a 2008 model year car, which means that it benefits from built-in Bluetooth.

The magnolia leather (and there’s an awful lot of it) is all in good condition, being free of rips, tears and other damage. The leather has clearly been well cared for and remains as supple as a unicorn’s scrotum.

Oh, and don’t worry too much about the average fuel consumption figure you can see in one of the detail shots; 8.4mpg is the sort of figure you see after it’s been idling for a while as a result of the photographer faffing around. At least that’s what you can tell your other half if they notice it…

Of more relevance is the absence of any warning lights on the dashboard. Any warning light on a Bentley is going to be expensive, so it’s reassuring to see that this one is in fine fettle.

Speaking of which, the Flying Spur had a £2,000 brake service at the beginning of March, during which the rear brake calipers were freed off and the two electronic caliper motors and some brake hoses replaced.

It also had a new main battery, plus two new tyres in February 2019 and a set of tyre pressure sensors at the end of 2016. The latter cost around £500 and is a common fault, so it’s good to see that it’s already been taken care of.

The owner tells us that he isn’t aware of any mechanical faults with the car whatsoever but, on the negative side, the car hasn’t been serviced for a little while. It’s still well within the mileage guidelines but could do with being serviced on the grounds of time elapsed to be on the safe side.

Please see the invoices and bills that have been posted online for full details of the car’s service and repair history.

The online MOT history shows nothing of concern whatsoever and confirms the car’s low mileage. We love the government’s online MOT history check because there’s nowhere to hide. If a car’s a bad ‘un, then the MOT tester will notice it and record it for all to see – and as you’ll have noticed after double-checking the facts for yourselves (we know that you don’t take us at our word, preferring to adopt Ronald Reagan’s mantra of ‘trust, but verify’) there are no secrets with this car. It’s every bit as good as it looks.

The car comes with a number of expired MOT certificates plus a sheaf of invoices and bills to confirm the work that has been done to it in addition to the original leather owner’s wallet. The latter contains the fully stamped service history book (last stamp 2014) along with the other original contents such as warranty form, owner’s handbook, and the quick reference guide.

Please visit the documents section of the gallery of this listing where you will find photos of this and other paperwork to support our claim that this car has been maintained to a very high standard.

We’ve previously expressed our admiration for the Bentley Continental GT and we feel exactly the same way about the Flying Spur: it’s the car of a lifetime as long as you buy the right example.

But, there are dozens of cheap cars out there and very few bargains; there aren’t many cars that can bankrupt an unwary owner as fast as a Continental and most of the cars we see might have a low purchase price but they’ll end up being anything but cheap.

Not this one though. This is a cracking, low-mileage example that has been well looked after and serviced by people that know what they’re doing. As such, it’s exactly the sort of vehicle you want to buy if you’ve always promised yourself something with a W12 engine under the bonnet.

And what’s it going to cost you? Well, the vendor paid £72,600 for it ten years ago, during which time it’s lost the thick end of £50,000. That’s bad news for him but very, very good news for you because it’s highly unlikely that the price of good cars – and this is a good ‘un – is going to fall significantly in the medium-to-long term.

Viewing is always encouraged, and this car can be seen here at The Market HQ in Abingdon; to arrange an appointment please use the ‘Contact Seller’ button at the top of the listing. Feel free to ask any questions or make observations in the comments section below, or try our ‘Frequently Asked Questions’.

If needed, please remember we have a network of trusted suppliers we work with regularly and can recommend: Classic & Sportscar Finance for purchase-financing, Thames Valley Car Storage for storing your car, AnyVan for transporting it, and Footman James for classic car insurance.