# @bentleymotors on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpDqDNgQhL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64619447-bentleymotors-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-27T16:17:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bentley Motors (@BentleyMotors) — https://gondola.cc/BentleyMotors

## Caption

The Continental T never cared for subtlety. Shortened wheelbase, swollen arches, and a turbo V8 that shoved Bentley firmly out of the old‑school comfort zone. Even the cabin dared to break ranks - engine‑turned aluminium from door to door, punctuated by a red starter button that seemed to wink at the past while provoking it.​

​For Darren Day, newly arrived in Crewe in 1994, it became a dream first project. One brief, one car, everything from exterior stance to interior detail. And with Jim Orr’s instruction - “Go and create a beast” - the direction was set.​

A trip to Pebble Beach sealed it. The early racers, the big dials, the aluminium, the starter buttons: all attitude, all intent. Darren channelled that into a Bentley shorter, stiffer, louder in character. Autocar would later call it the greatest Bentley in half a century. Customers agreed - far beyond the ten cars originally imagined.​

​Inside, Darren found his calling. Bolder colours, new materials, a fresh way of thinking about Bentley cabins. That instinct carried him forward.​

​Thirty‑one years on, he leads Bentley Interior Design. The team is larger now, the tools more advanced, but the creative freedom remains the same.​

Illustrations by darrendaybentleydesigner

​#Bentley #BentleyStories

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