TL;DR

• In 1930 an Englishman raced his Bentley against France's fastest train, beat it by the width of the Channel, and sat down to wait.
• Bentley has booked six straight profitable years at a 14% margin; Aston Martin lost £324 million last year — two completely different ways to stay alive.
• What you pay millions for isn't a car. It's a hundred years of lineage.