The Bentley ‘Power on Ice 2012′ event offers the chance to drive the Bentley Continental GT W12 and Continental Supersports on ice in Finland. This time last year Bentley revealed that a convertible Continental Supersports had set a world record on ice in Finland of 205.48mph on the frozen Baltic sea in Finland, quickly followed by the announcement of [...]
Today sees the public debut of the Bentley Continental GT V8 ( and GTC V8) at Detroit, and the reveal of UK prices - £123,850 for the GT V8 & £136,250 for the GTC V8. We got the reveal of the new Bentley Continental GT V8 – and the Continental GTC V8 – last month, ahead of [...]
Bentley has seen sales in 2011 return to the levels of 2007, with sales up by 37 percent over 2010. China is now Bentley’s second biggest market. It doesn’t seem five minutes since Bentley were getting their highly skilled workforce to make furniture to keep them busy, so slow were sales as the recession started to bite. And despite [...]
A leaked price list for the Bentley Continental GT V8 and GTC V8 from Bentley in Berlin reveals prices for the new entry-level GT. Earlier this month we got the reveal of the Bentley Continental GT V8 ahead of its public debut at the 2012 Detroit Motor Show in January. And now we get the first idea of pricing. A leaked [...]
The Bentley Continental GT V8 debut is at the Detroit Auto Show in January, but Bentley has revealed their new V8 in GT and GTC guise this morning. The Bentley Continental GT V8, and for that matter the Continental GTC V8, are Bentley’s nod to the more constrained times in which we are living. Well, constrained [...]
Bentley has sent us a couple of videos this afternoon teasing the ‘New Sound of Bentley’. Is this the new V8 engine for the Continental GT? It makes a change for a car maker to tease us with sound rather than arty images, but Bentley has done that this afternoon with a soundtrack they’re calling [...]
It’s BBC Children in Need Day in the UK, and a 2012 Bentley Continental GTC has raised £240k at an auction organised by Bentley Manchester. The 2012 Bentley Continental GTC was only revealed at Frankfurt in September, and is currently getting its North American debut in L.A. But Bentley have already sold one to a generous UK buyer who [...]
Bentley boss Wolfgang Dürheimer has said the planned Bentley SUV will offer a W12 engine to show that the Bentley SUV is ‘The Boss’. Back in July we had the talkative Bentley boss Wolfgang Dürheimer musing that Bentley will produce the ultimate luxury SUV, with plans to take the underpinnings from sister company Porsche’s Cayenne and [...]
Bentley has revealed that it will build a range topping Bentley Continental GT2 with 650bhp and probably rear wheel drive. Bentley has revealed to Auto Express that now its got the regular versions of the Continental out of the way – the 2011 Continental GT and the 2012 Continental GTC – they’re going to head down the halo route for the new Conti and produce [...]
Bentley boss Wolfgang Dürheimer has confirmed that Bentley are planning a plug-in hybrid Bentley, but dropping E85. To be entirely fair to Bentley CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer, he hasn’t said that Bentley are planning a hybrid for reasons other than a green halo, but it seems very likely that’s the case. Especially as they are planning a plug-in [...]
Bentley has revealed the 2012 Bentley Continental GTC ahead of a debut at Frankfurt 2011 in September. On sale before the end of the year. Bentley are busy updating their cars, a process which started with the new Bentley Mulsanne and carried on with the 2012 Continental GT this time last year. And now, just [...]
We have a photo of an undisguised 2012 Bentley Continental GT V8 ahead of its debut at Detroit in the New Year. This isn’t the first time we’ve had a spy photo of the 2012 Bentley Continental GT V8, although last time it was the new V8 under a drop-top Bentley GTC. And the V8 [...]
Bentley boss Wolfgang Durheimer has made it clear that he will overcome opposition within Bentley to using diesel engines. We’re the first to admit that we are recent converts to the joys of a powerful diesel engine. But a Bentley Diesel seems perhaps a step too far. But according to Bentley boss, Wolfgang Durheimer, it’s not. Herr Durheimer is a [...]
It’s being reported that Bentley will introduce the Continental GT with the new V8 engine at the Detroit Motor Show in January. We’ve known for a while that Bentley and Audi are developing a V8 engine that is destined for the Continental GT. In fact, we exclusively spied the V8 Continental GT (actually, a V8 Continental GTC) just a [...]
It’s being reported that Bentley boss Wolfgang Dürheimer has confirmed that the Crewe company are working on a Bentley SUV. There was a time, not too long ago, when there was a reasonable expectation that most car makers would, at some point, deliver up an SUV. Yes, there was even talk of a Bentley SUV. But [...]
We have the first spy shots of the new V8 Bentley Continental, in this case the 2012 Bentley Continental GTC. We expect a reveal at Frankfurt We had the launch of the new Bentley Continental GT – the 2011 car – back in September at the Paris Motor Show, but we’re still waiting for what [...]
Bentley are reporting their best start to sales since 2008, with sales up 20% in the first six months of 2011 to 2978 cars. With all the gloom and doom around, from the Greek economy to public sector strikes to Libya, you’d be forgiven for expecting sales of luxury goods to be terrible. But you’d be wrong. The rich of [...]
Bentley has launched the Bentley Continental GT Mulliner Styling Pack offering glossy carbon fibre add-ons for the new Continental GT. If there’s a complaint about the Bentley Continental GT it’s that it’s become ubiquitous; an everyman Bentley (for every footballer, celeb and WAG, at least). Sadly, that perception undermines what is at the heart of how [...]
Bentley has revealed that it sold 396 cars in China in the first four months of 2011 – a quarter of all Bentleys sold worldwide. In case you’re wondering, Hong Shao Rou is a Chinese dish of cubes of braised pork belly glazed with caramelised sugar and Shaoxing rice wine. It was Chairman Mao’s favourite dish and so, [...]
Bentley has added an extra option to the limited edition Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible ISR – the ISR Mulliner option featuring red details and side graphics. Back in February, before the Geneva Motor Show, we got a tip that Bentley were going to build a limited edition Supersports Convertible to celebrate the World Ice Speed Record, set in a Bentley [...]
In the last part of our review & road test of the Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed, we ask who would buy this M5 for a plutocrat? Who will buy the Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed? It seems a fair question. For the keen driver there is no comparison between the regular Flying Spur and [...]
In part 2 of our review and road test of the Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed, we look at its performance. Can a big saloon really perform like a Supercar? A prod on the button yields a turbine-like wail from the starter as it breathes life in to the 12 cylinders. That the background growl of [...]
This week we play at plutocrat boy-racers as we have the Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed Series 51 in for Review and Road Test. Does it make sense? We’re a picky bunch, us Brits. However brilliant anything is we have to find a way to denigrate it. It’s as if we can’t live with success; we [...]
It’s being reported that Bentley are close to expanding the Mulsanne with a Mulsanne Coupe, which will revive the Bentley Turbo R moniker. It’s a little over a year since Bentley finally gave us all the details on their replacement for the iconic (not used lightly) Arnage – the last of the ‘Real’ bentleys, many [...]
A quick recap on the Bentley Continental Supersorts Ice Speed Record Convertible Limited Edition, and a live photo from Geneva. It’s not every day you take a world speed record and give it a good spanking. But that’s what Bentley recently did on ice in Finland in – of all things – a Bentley Supersports [...]
