Bentley Bespoke Le Mans Bentayga Apex Edition

This profile follows the particular Le Mans-liveried Bentayga Apex Edition delivered to Bentley collector Mark King and documented by the factory on 25 March 2025. Its Verdant green and Moonbeam finish matches his Le Mans Collection Continental GT. The SUV is one member of the twenty-car Apex programme, with its own supported commissioning story; it is not a second twenty-car allocation or an extra car beyond that programme.

Bentley Bespoke Le Mans Bentayga Apex Edition at a glance

An individual commission with a documented delivery story

Bentley’s March 2025 factory account identifies collector Mark King and describes the delivery of his Bentayga Apex Edition in Le Mans Collection livery and trim. That record supplies a specific individual-car subject, beyond the general Apex programme announced in 2024. The article follows the documented commission and its relationship to the owner’s matching Continental GT. It does not add unpublished chassis numbers, later ownership changes or a current location. The date is the factory delivery announcement, which should remain separate from an unsupported exact assembly date. This clear scope allows the individual car to be studied without republishing the generic Apex article under a new name or treating every Le Mans-themed Bentley as the same vehicle.

The count is inside the Apex programme

The factory explicitly describes the delivered SUV as one of twenty Apex Edition examples worldwide. Its separate record therefore overlaps the programme count. The car is not a twenty-first Apex, and its individual commissioning story does not establish a new one-car production series independent of the twenty-car allocation. This is the most important distinction for a rare-vehicle database. A programme record and an individual-car record can both be useful, provided their scopes are visible and their counts are not added together. This profile uses a documented individual-subject scope and links to the Apex programme. Readers can follow the relationship while the archive avoids presenting two records as evidence of two unrelated editions or inflating a total through duplicate counting.

Why an existing Le Mans Continental owner could commission it

At the Apex launch, Bentley offered a matching Le Mans treatment specifically to owners of Continental GT or GTC Le Mans Collection cars. That ordering relationship explains the delivered SUV’s specification. It was not an unrestricted claim that every Apex could automatically be called a Le Mans Collection car, nor a requirement that all twenty Apex examples use this livery. The individual commission sits within an existing programme and a documented eligibility route. Preserving that context makes the profile more meaningful: the design connects two cars in one collection through a supported commissioning process. The matching treatment is a relationship between separate vehicles, not a reason to merge their production limits or transfer one car’s chassis history to the other.

Verdant and Moonbeam connect the two vehicles visually

The SUV’s Verdant green exterior and Moonbeam racing stripe match the owner’s Le Mans Collection Continental GT. The official delivery photograph shows the cars together, allowing the relationship to be examined directly rather than inferred from separate listings. The tall SUV body and lower two-door grand tourer handle the shared colours differently. A broad paired view is particularly useful because it shows both the continuity of the brief and the difference in vehicle architecture. The caption identifies the Bentayga and its Continental companion as separate cars. This prevents a common archive error in mixed-car galleries, where a photograph of a related coupé can be incorrectly assigned as the SUV’s principal image without explaining the companion subject.

The interior continues a motorsport-inspired theme

Bentley describes Beluga hide and Dinamica fabric seat faces with Hotspur contrast stitching for the matching specification. These details connect the SUV’s cabin with the darker, competition-inspired colour arrangement of the Le Mans Continental. The interest lies in translating a theme between different passenger environments rather than claiming that the interiors are structurally identical. Individual photographs and build records can preserve the SUV’s exact layout and selected materials. This article does not transfer every commemorative object in the Continental to the Bentayga. Where the factory account discusses the coupé’s fascia emblems and rotating-display artefact, those details remain attributed to that separate companion car unless independent evidence identifies them in the SUV.

The V8 S foundation keeps the mechanical identity clear

The delivered vehicle uses the Apex programme’s Bentayga S basis. The factory gives the four-litre twin-turbocharged V8 a reference of 542 bhp, equivalent to 550 PS, and 770 Nm. It also identifies Bentley Dynamic Ride and rear-wheel steering, together with the programme’s carbon wheels, carbon-ceramic brakes and carbon body kit. This is different from the owner’s other Bentayga Speed mentioned in the same release. The broader ownership story should not cause the W12 Speed specification to be assigned to the delivered Apex. A clear profile names the actual derivative first, then records its individual livery and commissioning relationship. The distinction makes the car’s mechanical and visual identity understandable even when several Bentleys appear in one owner’s collection.

The wheel-and-brake saving needs the detailed launch scope

The Apex launch provides a useful technical breakdown: the four carbon wheels contribute twenty-four kilograms of unsprung-mass saving, and the carbon-ceramic brakes contribute more than twenty kilograms relative to iron discs. The combined programme reference is about forty-four kilograms. The later delivery account shortens this wording in a way that could place the full saving on the wheels alone. This article follows the detailed launch scope and labels the combined figure accordingly. That is a small editorial correction with a practical benefit: readers can understand what equipment the number covers, and comparisons do not accidentally treat it as a total-vehicle weight saving or an independently measured result for this particular customer car.

A Le Mans tribute is separate from the winning race car

The matching Continental’s theme commemorates Bentley’s 2003 Le Mans victory and refers to the winning Speed 8. The SUV’s commissioned appearance draws on that same themed collection, but it is a road-going Bentayga, not the competition car. A green finish and racing stripe communicate a connection without transferring a race result to the SUV. The archive should keep the winning car, the Le Mans Continental programme and this Apex commission as related subjects with different histories. That makes the design inspiration useful while preserving factual boundaries. The delivery photographs help establish the actual road-car pair, and the article explains the tribute in terms of the documented customer specification rather than a fabricated racing provenance.

The individual record adds a story without adding another allocation

This car is a strong example of how a small factory programme can lead to a specifically documented owner commission. The general Apex profile explains the equipment, design choices and announced twenty-car scope. The individual Le Mans profile explains which of those possibilities was selected, why the matching specification was available and how the factory documented the resulting car. The two articles use different images and different editorial focus, with the count relationship made explicit. For future updates, supported build records, dated condition photographs or publicly documented changes can enrich this file. The article does not assume that the original delivery story proves current ownership indefinitely. Its collector significance remains the traceable commission and its relationship to a wider Bentley collection.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a separate edition outside the twenty-car Apex programme?

No. It is one documented customer car within the Apex programme. The separate profile follows its individual commissioning and delivery history.

Who is named in Bentley’s delivery announcement?

Bentley names collector Mark King in its 25 March 2025 release.

What do the delivery photographs show?

The Le Mans-liveried Bentayga Apex Edition alongside the owner’s matching Continental GT, two distinct vehicles.

Does the SUV contain the Continental’s Speed 8 valve artefact?

The cited release attributes that rotating-display artefact to the companion Continental GT. It is not assigned to the SUV without separate evidence.

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Primary sources

• Bentley collector takes delivery of bespoke Le Mans Bentayga to complete a unique stable
• Bentayga and Mulliner reach new peaks with the Apex Edition

Identity, specifications and chronology are sourced to the dated manufacturer records. Design interpretation and documentation guidance are editorial analysis. Announced limits remain separate from completed production populations and individual-car records.

Photography and credits

Mark King’s Le Mans-liveried Bentayga Apex Edition at right beside his matching Continental GT, in Bentley’s March 2025 delivery imagery. Photo: Bentley Motors / Bentley Newsroom · Editorial reproduction only. Resized and JPEG encoded without cropping or content changes. Copyright Bentley Motors. Editorial reproduction only, excluding advertising, marketing and sales-related activity. Individual photographer not identified.

The documented Le Mans Bentayga Apex Edition and matching Continental GT in Bentley’s delivery gallery; two separate vehicles. Photo: Bentley Motors / Bentley Newsroom · Editorial reproduction only. Resized and JPEG encoded without cropping or content changes. Copyright Bentley Motors. Editorial reproduction only, excluding advertising, marketing and sales-related activity. Individual photographer not identified.