Royal Flush: Queen’s Bentley Mulsanne Ends up on British Auto Trader

Royal Flush: Queen’s Bentley Mulsanne Ends up on British Auto Trader

Royal Flush: Queen’s Bentley Mulsanne Ends up on British Auto Trader, We shouldn’t be afraid that somebody is aggravating to advertise the Queen’s above Bentley Mulsanne for a abundant markup. Vendors generally try to abstract a ample exceptional for cars that accept been endemic by somebody famous, and celebrities don’t get abundant bigger than HRM. So if you’re in the bazaar for a right-hand-drive Mulsanne and dig the actuality that Her Maj already sat on the aback seat, again you can buy this one, currently listed on the British Auto Trader website (unrelated to the U.S.–based autotrader.com), for £199,850, or $283,000 at accepted barter rates.

You’d be as mad as King George III to do so, of course. Although acclaim acclimated to back Queen Elizabeth to and from her assorted castles and palaces and with just 5000 afar recorded, this 2012 Mulsanne is, by our reckoning, about alert the amount of a agnate car in the U.K. afterwards a aristocratic pedigree. Alternatively it could be a able investment, depending on how abundant amount the bazaar places on its aristocratic connection—the above Cardinal Ratzinger’s Mark IV Volkswagen Golf awash for a boundless $244,000 afterwards he became Pope Benedict XVI.

The Mulsanne itself was aboriginal registered by Bentley Motors in 2012, suggesting it was loaned to the aristocratic domiciliary rather than sold, and it’s accomplished in an appropriately august adumbration of Barnato Green with magnolia trim. There’s no acknowledgment of any aegis upgrades in the online advertisement suggesting that, if fitted, they accept after been removed, but the car does accept fold-down walnut barbecue tables that could able-bodied accept been acclimated for the casual aristocratic snack. The car was acclimated for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and for a appointment to the Prime Minister at No.10 Downing Street. Short of Morris dancing while bubbler balmy beer through a affirmation of bad teeth, it doesn’t get abundant added British than that. The advertisement aswell says that the car’s digital aeronautics arrangement has been programmed to accept Windsor Castle as its home location, a appropriately august touch.

There’s annealed antagonism amid British carmakers to be apparent chauffeuring the Queen about, with Range Rovers generally acclimated as able-bodied as the far added busy Bentley State Limousine. Yet she has added bashful tastes if she takes the caster herself, accepting afresh been photographed active a decade-old Jaguar X-type wagon.

If you’re not assertive by the aristocratic affiliation but still wish a British-registered Mulsanne at a abundant savings, we aswell begin this 10,000-mile archetype for £120,000 on the Auto Trader site. See the aboriginal advertisement for the aristocratic car here.

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