The new Bentley Bentayga plug-in Hybrid SUV arrives on sale for £133k with a plug-in hybrid powertrain promising 24-mile EV range and slashed emissions. There is no way, in our climate change obsessed world that a Bentley, any Bentley, can be considered ‘Green’. But that isn’t stopping Bentley claiming their new Bentayga Hybrid is exactly […]
The Bentley Blower LIVES again – Bentley building 12 Blower ‘continuation’ cars
Bentley’s most famous car – Tim Birkin’s 1929 supercharged 4½-litre “Blower” – is to live again as Bentley announce a ‘continuation’ series of 12 cars. We’ve seen car makers with a storied history cashing in on their past with ‘continuation’ versions of their most iconic models, like Jaguar with the Jaguar XKSS and Jaguar D-Type, […]
One-off 1939 Bentley Corniche – destroyed in WWII – lives again
Bentley has re-built a one-off 1939 Bentley Corniche destroyed in WWII as it celebrates its centenary year. The ‘new’ Corniche will debut at Salon Prive. What do you do to make a statement when your world-renowned car company is 100 years old? If you’re Bentley, you re-create a pivotal model destroyed 80 years ago at […]
Bentley Flying Spur First Edition raises £625,000 for Elton John AIDS Foundation
A Bentley Flying Spur First Edition donated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised €700,000 at the Charity’s Midsummer Gala Auction. Elton John’s AIDS Foundation has a bit of a habit of getting donations of expensive cars from Audi for its Summer Gala, including an Audi RS6 Avant which fetched £120,000, a pair of […]
Bentley EXP 100 GT – a huge ELECTRIC Bentley Concept celebrates 100 years
Bentley celebrates its 100th birthday with the EXP 100 GT Concept, a look at a future electric, autonomous Bentley Grand Tourer for 2035. What do you do to celebrate 100 years as a car makers, and a car maker at the very top of the industry at that. Do you build a car that looks […]
Bentley Continental GT BREAKS Pikes Peak Record. Could it be the last?
The Bentley Continental GT has broken the Pikes Peak Hillclimb record for a production car in a time of 10m 18.4 seconds, adding to the Bentayga record. Bentley revealed the Continental GT built to take on Pikes Peak Hillcimb early last month, and it’s now gone out and done what it was meant to do: […]
Bentley Continental GT Convertible Number 1 Edition – No. 1 Bentley Blower Tribute
The Bentley Continental GT Convertible Number 1 Edition by Mulliner arrives as Bentley pays tribute to No. 1 Bentley Blower in its centenary year. We know it’s Bentley’s centenary year, and that it’s only right that Bentley celebrates with a limited edition model. But we thought we’d seen Bentley’s tribute to the ‘Blower’ Bentley with […]
New Bentley Flying Spur arrives in Bentley’s centenary year
The new Bentley Flying Spur arrives in Bentley’s centenary year as Bentley takes the Continental GT and turns it in to the new Bentley super saloon. The latest Bentley Continental GT is a big improvement over the old Continental GT, so taking the underpinnings from it and using them to deliver the new Bentley Flying […]
This is the Bentley Continental GT Bentley plan to demolish Pikes Peak with
Bentley reveals the Continental GT it plans to take to the 2019 Pikes Peak Hillclimb, aiming to take the record for a production car. Last year, Bentley took the Bentayga to Pikes Peak and managed to grab the production SV record with a stunning time up the arduous Pikes Peak Hillclimb. And this year they’re […]
THIS is the new Bentley Flying Spur. Most of it, anyway
The new Bentley Flying Spur is teased again ahead of its reveal on 11 June, and news that it will come with four-wheel steering. It is easy to deride the Bentley Flying Spur as a poor man’s Bentley Mulsanne – just as the Porsche Cayman is a poor man’s Porsche 911 – but the Flying […]