Photo Bentley Flying Spur Speed W12 S Dubai Gigapixel

There’s a Bentley Flying Spur Speed W12 S buried in the heart of this gigapixel image of Dubai

Bentley are out to give the new Flying Spur W12 S – a new Flying Spur Speed with a new name – a bit of coverage with a gigapixel image of Dubai.

The photo you see at the top is a detailed image of the Dubai skyline. And sitting by the Marina in the little circle on the right of the water is the Bentley Flying Spur W12 S.

Now, on the face of it, showing a photo of Dubai that apparently has a photo of a car you’re promoting buried so small you can’t see it, isn’t really a bright way to promote new car. But then this is no ordinary image.

In fact the image (not our version above – the one on Bentley’s site) is a gigapixel image stitched together with an almost impossible 57.7 billion pixels of information taken by a camera 264 metres up Dubai’s Cayan Tower.

So big is the image that processing it and balancing the light took 48 hours of not insignificant computer processing power, and 1,825, frames to create. Downloading the finished image took 18 hours. Which is why it’s on Bentley’s servers, not ours.

So what, you may ask, is the connection between a gigapixel image of Dubai and the new Bentley? Apparently, it’s that the 130 man-hours it takes to make the Flying Spur W12 S needs the same attention to detail as the image. Tenuous.

Still, the Flying Spur W12 S is an appealing car with its 626bhp and 605lb/ft of torque, retuned suspension and new specific damper settings, even if it’s very much a niche market inside a niche market of plutocratic boy racers with a penchant for four-door saloons the size of the Albert Hall.

But both it and the gigapixel image are indisputably impressive.