Bentley will have the ‘Bentley Boutique’ at the Geneva Motor Show selling a range of Bentley branded goodies. It looks like Bentley are taking the whole ‘Merchandise’ thing as seriously as Ferrari do. Perhaps they decided last year – when Bentley were selling next to no cars – that shoving the Bentley logo on a […]
Bentley Zagato GTZ – back in production
Italian coachbuilder Zagato has re-started production of the Bentley GTZ Zagato, a re-bodied Bentley Continental GT Speed. It’s now two years since Zagato announced they were building the Bentley GTZ, a Zagato-bodied Bentley Continental GT Speed. They made the announcement at the Geneva Motor Show back in 2008 and we later discovered that they were intending […]
Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible Press Release
NEW BENTLEY CONTINENTAL SUPERSPORTS CONVERTIBLE FlexFuel technology now standard across Continental model range • The Continental Supersports Convertible is the fastest, most potent drop-top Bentley ever built – 0-60mph in just 3.9 seconds (0-100km/h in 4.2 seconds) and a top speed of 202mph (325km/h). It is also the fastest four-seat convertible in the world. • […]
Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible at Geneva
Bentley has revealed the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible with 4 seats and the same FlexFuel W12 as the Coupe. The Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible has been on the way for a while. We reported that a Supersports Convertible was likely back in October, and as Bentley have managed to chop the top off all the […]
Bentley Continental Estate – Carrazzeria to make a Bentley Shooting Brake
Italian Coachbuilders Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera are planning on building a Bentley Continental GT based estate car – the Bentley Continental Shooting Brake. A week or two back we got the sniff that Italian Coachbuilders Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera where planning on building a limited run car based on the Bentley Continental. The rumours were vague – […]
The last ‘Real’ Bentleys leave the factory
As the last ‘Real’ Bentleys leave the factory – the Azure, the Arnage and the Brooklands – we say goodbye to the pre-VW era Bentleys. Volkswagen’s takeover of Bentley has, certainly in sales and production terms, been a big success. Until the recent economic mire hit, the sales of Bentleys were at a previously unimagined level. […]
Bentley Mulsanne (2010) Price revealed
Bentley has revealed that the list price for the 2010 Mulsanne will be £220,000 OTR in the UK, with production starting in the Spring and first UK customer cars by the Summer. As is always the case with new cars, we got dribbles of information on the new Bentley Mulsanne during its ‘Reveal’ gestation. Despite […]
Bentley Crossover and Sport Hatch/Estate planned
Bentley are planning to produce a pair of new Bentley Compact cars – an Allroad type Bentley and a two-door sport hatch. These rumours crop up from time to time – new entry-level models from prestige car makers – but perhaps we need to take some of them a bit more seriously now the world […]
CPP Manufacturing – the hidden car maker
CPP (Manufacturing) Ltd are to take over production of Spyker Cars. But who are they, and what other cars do they build? Earlier today we ran a story on Spyker relocating manufacturing to the UK. Not to a new manufacturing plant owned and operated by Spyker, but to the home of CPP Manufacturing Ltd in […]
Bentley Continental Supersports – Deliveries start +video
Customer deliveries of the Bentley Continental Supersports start this month, and we have video of Derek Bell talking and driving the Supersports at the Nurburgring. The Bentley Continental Supersports is the fastest and most extreme of Bentleys. It started out as an in-house project to explore weight reduction and performance possibilities, but turned in to […]