BENTLEY CONTINENTAL FLYING SPUR: BUYER'S GUIDE
Median Price: £30,812 • Highest Price: £179,700 • Lowest Price: £7,900 • Sell-Through Rate: 73%
Source: Bring A Trailer
How much is a Continental Flying Spur worth?
In our experience, we've seen plenty of Continental Flying Spur's go under the hammer and based on analysing every sale you can expect to pay £30,812 for one in average condition - that places it amongst the most expensive 40% of collector cars across our database.
As Bentley's go, a Continental Flying Spur is on the lower end relative to other Bentley models. In fact this model is £3,607 below the median Bentley price of £34,419.
What is the maximum to pay for a Continental Flying Spur?
Across the 231 Continental Flying Spur's we've seen sell, the highest price ever recorded for this model is £179,700. It was sold by Collecting Cars in the UK on 01 Feb 2023.
What is the lowest to pay for a Continental Flying Spur?
The lowest sale of all time for this vehicle is £7,900, Mecum sold this car in the US on 08 Jun 2024.
What is the background of the make / model?
Bentley produced this model between 2005 and 2023.
Bentley was founded in 1919 by W.O. Bentley and quickly established a reputation for building high-performance luxury cars. The iconic "Bentley Boys" dominated motorsport in the 1920s and '30s. The company was acquired by Rolls-Royce in the 1930s. Today, Bentley is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG and continues to produce luxury cars known for their power, style, and craftsmanship.
How common is a Continental Flying Spur?
According to data from the DVLA, the UK licensing authority, in 2022 there were 2,098 licensed vehicles alive and kicking on UK roads. There were also 437 vehicles that are SORNd - in other words not currently registered for the road. Note: that data is for this model and all of its sub-models.
Building on that, we've also seen plenty of these go under the hammer at auctions around the world, 316 to be precise. It's among the 4% most common collector cars to sell at auction.
Of those 316 times the model has gone to auction 231 have sold. In other words, this model sells on 73% of times it goes to auction - that's below the average sell-through rate we traditionally see.
How does the Continental Flying Spur compare to other cars?
We know from reviews of this model by our 42,000+ strong community how this car performs across multiple variables. Those variables stack up to give a TCVScore which is a relative score of how good a car is across 5 variables in comparison to all other cars.
For the Continental Flying Spur, it scores a 58 out of 100 - that places it in the top 50% of all cars in our database.
How the car scores across all variables is below:
Styling: 4/10
Cool Factor: 5/10
Practicality: 6/10
Handling: 6/10
Speed: 8/10
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Why this article was created
Well, we've got one of the largest databases of sold classic car prices in the world so we thought we ought to help and put that data to good use. To be clear though, this article is not intended to be a full tour of every nook and sill of the Continental Flying Spur, rather it's meant to act as an introductory guide and overview of the market for this model.
It is here to provide you guidance on how much you should and shouldn't be paying for one based on the 316 we've seen previously.
If you're after more detail, we've got you covered. Click the button below to be taken to a the price guide for this model so you can see every single sale, price trend over time and lots more.
How this article was created
This article was created by looking back at sales of Continental Flying Spur since the beginning of our database in 1992. We've scanned over 30 auction houses and results from over £15 billion of sold cars around the world to understand the where the market is at for this car.
The Classic Valuer takes that data and analytics which enables it to generate these articles at scale, for further information regarding the Continental Flying Spur please visit the price guide linked below.
About The Author
Giles Gunning
Giles is CEO of The Classic Valuer - one of the world's largest databases of sold classic cars in the world going back over 30 years covering over 11,000 models. Giles and The Classic Valuer are regularly referenced in key classic car publications including Classic & Sports Car.
Giles grew up around the iconic historic motorsport venue at Goodwood and enjoys his 1972 Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior around the Sussex roads. His primary car goal is to purchase back a selection of his grandfather's car's including his 1931 Riley Brooklands.
