en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_Mulsanne_(2010)
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The interior is upholstered in leather, and the dashboard contains the owner's signature.
The signature used on the W.O. Edition is W.O. Bentley’s signature, not the signature of the car’s owner.
Full reasoning
Bentley’s official description of the W.O. Edition says the decorative signature used on the car is W.O. Bentley’s. In Bentley’s launch material, the marquetry/display piece is described as being “finished with W.O.’s signature,” and Bentley also says a “W.O. Bentley signature badge” appears on the car’s lower bumper.
That means the article’s wording is wrong: the signature is not the owner’s signature.
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- Bentley News 2018: THE MULSANNE W.O. EDITION BY MULLINER: A UNIQUE CAR TO MARK AN EXTRAORDINARY MILESTONE
The piece is finished with W.O.'s signature. ... A discreet W.O. Bentley signature badge is displayed on the lower bumper, while special centenary badging adorns the self-levelling wheel centres and door treadplates.
Each individual Mulsanne is hand-built and undergoes a meticulous process spanning approximately 200 hours (16 days).
Bentley says a Mulsanne took over 400 hours to build, not about 200 hours.
Full reasoning
Bentley’s own heritage material for the Mulsanne states that “Each Mulsanne took over 400 hours to build”. That directly conflicts with the claim here that a car took approximately 200 hours.
Because Bentley is describing its own manufacturing process, its official model-history page is strong primary evidence on this point.
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- Bentley Newsroom: colleague event Mulsanne
Each Mulsanne took over 400 hours to build, with over 70% of this time spent upon the sumptuous interior.
The assembly area covers an extensive 521,111 m2 (5,609,190 sq ft), serving as the centre for all aspects of car production.
The 521,111 m² figure is for Bentley’s entire Pyms Lane site, not the Mulsanne assembly area.
Full reasoning
Bentley’s official Facts and Figures page says the site at Pyms Lane covers 521,111 m², and explains that the whole site contains design, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and sales & marketing operations.
So the article has taken a whole-factory/site figure and incorrectly attributed it to “the assembly area.”
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- Bentley Newsroom: Facts and Figures
The Bentley Motors factory is a fully integrated site - all aspects of car production from Design, Engineering, Manufacture, Quality, and Sales & Marketing take place in Crewe. The site covers an area of 521,111m2, with 166,930m2 indoors.