RE: More new Bentleys coming
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Is it just me, or did the article say absolutely nothing?
"We spoke to am engineer at Bentley who said they were working on new cars because if they didn't the current ones would stop selling and they would go out of business. These new cars will be new versions of the current cars which will hopefully sell as well or maybe better than the old ones. We may continue to offer the same derivatives of the new cars as we did on the old ones (or not) and we may (or not) use the existing 12 cylinder engines or a new version of the V8 we share with Audi in new derivates we may or may not offer. Oh and we offered a car that ran on E85 bio-fuel that you can't buy anywhere because we couldn't afford to do a hybrid at the time and this ran on a fuel that could be made from plants so we called it a hybrid and no one said it wasn't because no one cared. Oh, and we are part of VW so we're maybe going to offer a hybrid in future. Oh and a Truck". The end.
They could have called any 01270 telephone number and asked for a statement about Bentley and most of this would have been blindingly obvious. Bentley in more-of-the-same bombshell.
"We spoke to am engineer at Bentley who said they were working on new cars because if they didn't the current ones would stop selling and they would go out of business. These new cars will be new versions of the current cars which will hopefully sell as well or maybe better than the old ones. We may continue to offer the same derivatives of the new cars as we did on the old ones (or not) and we may (or not) use the existing 12 cylinder engines or a new version of the V8 we share with Audi in new derivates we may or may not offer. Oh and we offered a car that ran on E85 bio-fuel that you can't buy anywhere because we couldn't afford to do a hybrid at the time and this ran on a fuel that could be made from plants so we called it a hybrid and no one said it wasn't because no one cared. Oh, and we are part of VW so we're maybe going to offer a hybrid in future. Oh and a Truck". The end.
They could have called any 01270 telephone number and asked for a statement about Bentley and most of this would have been blindingly obvious. Bentley in more-of-the-same bombshell.
Macboy said:
Is it just me, or did the article say absolutely nothing?
"We spoke to am engineer at Bentley who said they were working on new cars because if they didn't the current ones would stop selling and they would go out of business. These new cars will be new versions of the current cars which will hopefully sell as well or maybe better than the old ones. We may continue to offer the same derivatives of the new cars as we did on the old ones (or not) and we may (or not) use the existing 12 cylinder engines or a new version of the V8 we share with Audi in new derivates we may or may not offer. Oh and we offered a car that ran on E85 bio-fuel that you can't buy anywhere because we couldn't afford to do a hybrid at the time and this ran on a fuel that could be made from plants so we called it a hybrid and no one said it wasn't because no one cared. Oh, and we are part of VW so we're maybe going to offer a hybrid in future. Oh and a Truck". The end.
They could have called any 01270 telephone number and asked for a statement about Bentley and most of this would have been blindingly obvious. Bentley in more-of-the-same bombshell.
"We spoke to am engineer at Bentley who said they were working on new cars because if they didn't the current ones would stop selling and they would go out of business. These new cars will be new versions of the current cars which will hopefully sell as well or maybe better than the old ones. We may continue to offer the same derivatives of the new cars as we did on the old ones (or not) and we may (or not) use the existing 12 cylinder engines or a new version of the V8 we share with Audi in new derivates we may or may not offer. Oh and we offered a car that ran on E85 bio-fuel that you can't buy anywhere because we couldn't afford to do a hybrid at the time and this ran on a fuel that could be made from plants so we called it a hybrid and no one said it wasn't because no one cared. Oh, and we are part of VW so we're maybe going to offer a hybrid in future. Oh and a Truck". The end.
They could have called any 01270 telephone number and asked for a statement about Bentley and most of this would have been blindingly obvious. Bentley in more-of-the-same bombshell.
spot on.Ozzie Osmond said:
IMO Bentley has become the very pinacle of bad taste. Big, heavy, lumpen things - blinged up and tackified for the Geordie Shore mentality.
I agree. While any number of proper Bentleys feature in my dream garage, the current range holds no appeal at all and is, frankly, embarrassing. Rolls Royce has shown how to do the job properly.Igloo124]arnnoisseur said:
Quite intrigued by the percentage of sales achieved by Bentley for the Flying Spur, just doesnt seem as popular?
The Flying Spur may not be that prevalent in the UK, but it has huge sales in markets that prefer four door cars eg China, where they don't like coupes as much as we do...
A good number of Flying Spurs driving around in HK and China. Folding the front seat down to let your boss out of the coupe just doesn't work as well The Flying Spur may not be that prevalent in the UK, but it has huge sales in markets that prefer four door cars eg China, where they don't like coupes as much as we do...
Is it the Speed that James May rallied in the recent Top Gear episode?
I actually like the Conti's, but I wish they'd do a bit more to distinguish the more "special" variants. I'm pretty good at identifying cars on the road, but geez, the whole Conti range looks identical!
Nomenclature is confusing, too. So the SuperSports was the "fastest Bentley ever" of the previous generation, but now the Speed is the fastest ever; even faster than the SuperSports, but does the different name mean it's not intended to sit atop the Bentley heap?
Will it sit between the "regular" W12 Conti & a Mk2 SuperSports in the pipeline? Is there even a "regular" W12 Conti any more, or are all W12s "Speeds" now that they have the V8 as the "base" model?
I actually like the Conti's, but I wish they'd do a bit more to distinguish the more "special" variants. I'm pretty good at identifying cars on the road, but geez, the whole Conti range looks identical!
Nomenclature is confusing, too. So the SuperSports was the "fastest Bentley ever" of the previous generation, but now the Speed is the fastest ever; even faster than the SuperSports, but does the different name mean it's not intended to sit atop the Bentley heap?
Will it sit between the "regular" W12 Conti & a Mk2 SuperSports in the pipeline? Is there even a "regular" W12 Conti any more, or are all W12s "Speeds" now that they have the V8 as the "base" model?
FarmerJim said:
Ozzie Osmond said:
IMO Bentley has become the very pinacle of bad taste. Big, heavy, lumpen things - blinged up and tackified for the Geordie Shore mentality.
I agree. While any number of proper Bentleys feature in my dream garage, the current range holds no appeal at all and is, frankly, embarrassing. Rolls Royce has shown how to do the job properly.It's now likely that many of the potential buyers of the cars with the values that Bentley used to stand for will desert them in droves. The reflected horrific bad taste of the new SUV will leave some customers to not wish to own any other car in the range that is in bad taste by association.
This will leave the "new" Bentley image as appealing only to premier league footballers, drug dealers, middle eastern types with more cash than sense ..... and anyone else with enough resources but who has had a taste by pass and for whom "bling is king".
It's a pity that VW weren't able to devise a completely new marque to achieve their aims .... and allow Bentley to continue to produce cars with the sort of style and graceful pace that we knew and loved.
Ian Fleming would turn in his grave.
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ZesPak said:
SpeckledJim said:
That thing makes the Maestro look cool!!!
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