June 18, 2013

Bentley Blowers take on the 2013 Mille Miglia

Bentley Blower driving on road

Bentley are heading to the 2013 Mille Miglia with two 4 1/2 litre Supercharged Blower Bentleys, one a former demonstrator the other run by Tim Birkin. It’s not just Jaguar heading off to the 2013 Mille Miglia with classic cars, Bentley are going too and they’re taking a pair of Blower Bentleys to pummel the [...]

Bentley Continental & Mulsanne Le Mans Limited Edition UPDATED

Photo Bentley Continental Le Mans Limited Edition

Bentley has created six limited edition Le Mans Continental and Mulsanne models to celebrate 90 years of Le Mans and Bentley’s Le Man Victory in 2003. Update: There was a bit of confusion over exactly how many Le Mans Limited Edition cars Bentley are producing. Some of you have emailed in and there’s a comment below asking [...]

Bentley SUV (Falcon) to be built in Slovakia?

Bentley SUV photo

Bentley says it has 2000 pre-orders for the Bentley Falcon SUV and that it is possible the Bentley won’t be built in Crewe but in Bratislava. Even though Bentley keep telling us that their SUV – which we expect to be called the Bentley Falcon – hasn’t yet been signed off for production, they are [...]

New Bentley Continental Flying Spur: Official +video

Video thumbnail for youtube video New Bentley Continental Flying Spur: Official +video

The new 2013 Bentley Continental Flying Spur has been officially revealed ahead of its public debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. Yesterday we had the first photos of the new Bentley Continental Flying Spur ahead of the official reveal by Bentley. But now the reveal is official. The new Flying Spur is, as we saw yesterday, subtly updated [...]

New 2013 Bentley Continental Flying Spur arrives early

2013 Bentley Continental Flying Spur image

The new Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed has arrived early, ahead of a reveal at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. Bentley has been teasing the new Continental Flying Spur ahead of its reveal, but they need tease no more after the first photos of Bentley’s junior limousine have arrived ahead of the new cars’ debut [...]

New (2014) Bentley Flying Spur teased (video)

Teasew sketch of new Bentley Flying Spur

Bentley has started the tease for the new Flying Spur which looks like it will debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in March. We’ve had spy video of the new Bentley Continental Flying Spur out testing and looking,  certainly at first glance, just like a Mercedes S Class. But that’s just Bentley’s take on the [...]

Bentley SUV (Bentley Falcon) to get completely new design – EXP 9 F scrapped

Blue Bentley SXP 9 F SUV image

Car & Driver are reporting that Bentley’s new Design chief - Luc Donckerwolke – is scrapping the Bentley SUV Concept and starting again. The Bentley vision of a luxury SUV (which we now think will be the Bentley Falcon when it arrives) debuted at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, and got almost as much criticism as [...]

What happened to the Bentley GT Speed Top Gear took rallying?

Photo of Bentley GT Speed after Top Gear took it on a rally stage

We asked Bentley what happened to the Continental GT Speed Top Gear took rallying in the first episode of Series 19. In the UK, we saw the first episode of the new Top Gear series air at the weekend (our colonial readers will have to wait a bit longer), and one of the highlights was James May and [...]

2013 Bentley Mulsanne get even more sybaritic

2013 Bentley Mulsanne image

The 2013 Bentley Mulsanne (2014 MY) comes complete with added luxury and new technology and debuts at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. There really is only one car that can be mentioned in the same breath as the Rolls Royce Phantom, and that’s the Bentley Mulsanne (although Rolls Royce would probably contend the Mulsanne is a rival to the [...]

Bentley SUV – the Bentley Falcon – close to production decision

Bentley SUV image

The Bentley SUV – expected to be called the Bentley Falcon – is close to being officially signed-off for production. Despite reporting back in October that the Bentley SUV and Lamborghini Urus SUV were on hold as VW looked at their potential, it became clear soon after that, despite the hiatus to decide if a pair of [...]