The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas.

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England.

** British luxury liner leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic

The British were among the first to revive the " Louis XIV style " as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.

In 1912, the Hersheys were to travel on the ill-fated British luxury liner RMS Titanic.

* Bristol Type 603S3 Britannia, a 1983 British luxury car.

From 1816 to the 1980's the British Guinea was no longer used a coin but prices for luxury items and professional services were often quoted in guineas, on the understanding that a guinea was equal to 21 shillings.

* Panther Rio, a 1970s luxury sedan made by British car makers Panther Westwinds

During the late 1970s and 1980s, the region was also known in the United Kingdom as the " Costa del Crime ", due to the trend for British gangsters to escape from legal trouble at home by moving there to live their lives in luxury.

Latterly the name became a top-end luxury model designation for cars from various subsidiaries of British Leyland and the Rover Group.

Also in 1957 / 8, Vanden Plas were asked by Leonard Lord to add luxury fittings to a batch of Austin A105 Westminster cars, beginning the practice of using the company's skills and name for badge-engineered ( and genuinely improved ) luxury versions of many of the BMC ( and later British Leyland ( BL )) cars such as the 1100 / 1300 range and the Allegro ( known as the Vanden Plas 1500 and 1700 ).

Having seen the opulence of American hotels in his many visits to the U. S., Carte decided to build the first luxury hotel in Britain to attract foreign clientele as well as British tourists who had travelled to London for theatre and sightseeing.

* Auto Express ' For: Huge performance, classic British luxury, modern safety aidsAgainst: Whopping price tag, hefty weight, Continental Flying Spur '

In July 1995, he was appointed as the designer of Givenchy by Bernard Arnault, owner of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, thus becoming the first British designer to head a French haute couture house.

Jaguar XJ is the designation that has been used for a series of luxury saloon cars sold under the British Jaguar marque.

In August 1764, fifty Boston merchants agreed to stop purchasing British luxury imports, and in both Boston and New York there were movements to increase colonial manufacturing.

The Zephyr and its luxury variant, the Ford Zodiac which appeared in 1953, were the largest passenger cars in the British Ford range from 1951 till they were replaced in 1962 by a larger mk2 Ford Consul, Zephyr, and Zodiac.

This category refers to the British luxury car marque, Bentley, owned by the Volkswagen Group since 1998.

The V10 is also sold to British luxury car manufacturer Bristol Cars.

In 2008, Tata Motors acquired the British car maker Jaguar Land Rover, manufacturer of the Jaguar, Land Rover and Daimler luxury car brands, from Ford Motor Company.

Two notable brands owned by SAIC itself are MG, a historic British car marque, and Roewe, one of the few domestic Chinese luxury car brands.

* Jaguar Cars, a British manufacturer of luxury and sports cars

The Jaguar XJ-S ( later the Jaguar XJS ) was a luxury grand tourer produced by the British manufacturer Jaguar from 1975 to 1996.

The 1983 Nova ( Opel Corsa elsewhere ) supermini, an addition to the Vauxhall line up, completed Vauxhall's regeneration, and it soon overtook Austin Rover ( formerly British Leyland ) as Britain's second most popular carmaker.

The venture came to an end in February 1994 when British Aerospace sold Rover Group to the German carmaker BMW for £ 800 million.

When Gola's sponsorship ceased, carmaker Vauxhall Motors — the British subsidiary of American combine General Motors — took over and sponsored the league until the end of the 1997 – 98 season.

The Rover 600 Series is a compact executive car produced by the British carmaker Rover Group under the Rover marque, from 1993 to 1999.

* Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley ( British ), Bugatti ( French ), Lamborghini ( Italian ), Škoda Auto ( Czech ), SEAT ( Spanish ), Porsche

* 1967 – Marcus Bentley, British voice actor

** Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator ( d. 1978 )

* August 14 – Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator ( b. 1907 )

The studio in charge of production, British Lion Films, was in financial trouble and was bought by wealthy businessman John Bentley.

* a 1965 British Bentley T-series model

From 1923 to 1979 Kingsbury Road was the location of the Vanden Plas specialist motor body works, body makers for Bentley and later part of Austin, BMC, and British Leyland.

Derek William Bentley ( 30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953 ) was a British teenager hanged for the murder of a police officer, committed in the course of a burglary attempt.

Famous and iconic British cars include the Aston Martin DB5, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Bentley 4½ Litre, Jaguar E-Type, Land Rover Defender, Lotus Esprit, McLaren F1, MGB, original two-door Mini, Range Rover and Rolls-Royce Phantom III.

The 1926 Bentley Speed Six Tourer is a famous British car of the vintage era.

During an argument with a constituent, B ' Stard declared that he believed he was helping British industry by driving a Bentley and having his suits handmade by British craftsmen.

He became friends with leading members of the British comedy scene including Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Spike Milligan, Willie Rushton and fellow Australian expatriate comedian-actors John Bluthal and Dick Bentley.

* Daddy ( 1917 film ) is a 1917 British silent film directed by Thomas Bentley

* W. O. Bentley, British car designer

Paul Benedict arrived as Harry Bentley, a loyal, kind, handsome, friendly British next-door neighbor, who worked as a Russian language interpreter at the United Nations.

1966 also saw the release of another British television tie-in, a two car set from The Avengers ( GS40 ) which featured figures of the stars of the show ' John Steed ' and ' Emma Peel ' and their respective cars ; the 1927 Bentley from the Corgi Classics range and a white Lotus Elan.

There are exceptions-the origins of Vickers Street precinct street names are unknown, while streets in the south-western corner are named after the " Bentley Boys ", a group of British racing drivers from the 1920s and 1930s, and their car designer Walter Owen Bentley.

Bentley refers to Bentley Motors Limited, a British manufacturer of automobiles.

* Edmund Clerihew Bentley, British author and humorist

* Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator

In 1874, Bentley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and he served as joint editor of the British Pharmacopeia of 1885.

The British team was led by David R. Bentley at the Sanger Institute and focused on chromosomes 1, 6, 10, 13 and 20.