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Bentley Continental GT
The Bentley Continental GT launched in 2003 as the car credited with saving Bentley as a going concern — built on a shared platform with the Volkswagen Group's other flagship sedans following VW's 1998 acquisition of the brand, it was priced dramatically below Bentley's traditional models and, for the first time in decades, sold in genuinely high volume. Its combination of a hand-finished leather-and-wood interior with genuine grand-touring performance was the car's whole pitch: a twin-turbocharged W12 engine, all-wheel drive, and a curb weight north of two tons that somehow still delivered a sub-4.5-second sprint to 60 mph, proof that "luxury" and "fast" didn't have to be a trade-off. Three generations in, the Continental GT has kept that original formula — a coupe (and later convertible) built to cross a continent in a single comfortable sitting at well over 150 mph, hand-stitched leather and real wood veneer on every surface a driver or passenger touches, and a build quality overseen at Bentley's historic Crewe factory, the same site the marque has operated from since 1946. Two decades after its debut, the Continental GT remains Bentley's best-selling model and the car most responsible for turning a niche, near-bespoke coachbuilder into a profitable, mass-luxury manufacturer — without, by most owners' accounts, losing the hand-finished feel that made the brand's name in the first place.
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Rolls-Royce Phantom
The Rolls-Royce Phantom nameplate dates back to 1925, but the modern era began in 2003, when BMW relaunched the brand with an all-new Phantom built from the ground up at a purpose-built factory on the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, England — the first car fully engineered and assembled under BMW's ownership of Rolls-Royce. Every Phantom is still effectively hand-built, with a body-in-white aluminum spaceframe and an interior finished to order through the marque's bespoke commissioning program, where buyers can specify anything from a hand-painted coachline to a starlit headliner made of hundreds of individually placed fiber-optic lights meant to mimic a night sky. Its rear-hinged "coach doors," a design carried over from the pre-war Phantoms, close themselves with a discreet motorized assist, and the Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament — introduced in 1911 and still hand-polished stainless steel or, on request, frosted crystal or gold-plated — remains the single most recognized emblem in the luxury car world. Decades after Rolls-Royce stopped chasing performance-car headlines, the Phantom has stayed the reference point for what "the best car in the world" is supposed to mean — the vehicle of choice for heads of state and the standard every other ultra-luxury sedan is still measured against.
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