RE: Bentley Arnage T Mulliner: PH Carpool
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I would love a full size Bentley, just fantastic machines. The Azure is possibly even better than the Arnage but maybe need one of each.
As to it being vulgar, I really don't think a Bentley falls into that category although I guess it is just a personal opinion, to me they are relatively understated, vulgar tends to mean flash to me.
As to it being vulgar, I really don't think a Bentley falls into that category although I guess it is just a personal opinion, to me they are relatively understated, vulgar tends to mean flash to me.
This era of Bentley is just pure class. No footballist would choose one over a VW Continental, no matter how shiny da rimz.
There's a dark blue Arnage, similar age, just up the road from me - makes me smile every time I see it. We recently bought a wicker picnic basket - wine glasses, knapkins, space for champagne etc. I really am trying to convince the OH we should get a Bentley to go with it....
The Azure linked to earlier is what I'd really want though...just look at it...
Beautiful machines - and for about 30k upwards for a tidy Arnage a total bargain.
There's a dark blue Arnage, similar age, just up the road from me - makes me smile every time I see it. We recently bought a wicker picnic basket - wine glasses, knapkins, space for champagne etc. I really am trying to convince the OH we should get a Bentley to go with it....
The Azure linked to earlier is what I'd really want though...just look at it...
Beautiful machines - and for about 30k upwards for a tidy Arnage a total bargain.
andy43 said:
This era of Bentley is just pure class. No footballist would choose one over a VW Continental, no matter how shiny da rimz.
There's a dark blue Arnage, similar age, just up the road from me - makes me smile every time I see it. We recently bought a wicker picnic basket - wine glasses, knapkins, space for champagne etc. I really am trying to convince the OH we should get a Bentley to go with it....
The Azure linked to earlier is what I'd really want though...just look at it...
Beautiful machines - and for about 30k upwards for a tidy Arnage a total bargain.
Go for it! There's a dark blue Arnage, similar age, just up the road from me - makes me smile every time I see it. We recently bought a wicker picnic basket - wine glasses, knapkins, space for champagne etc. I really am trying to convince the OH we should get a Bentley to go with it....
The Azure linked to earlier is what I'd really want though...just look at it...
Beautiful machines - and for about 30k upwards for a tidy Arnage a total bargain.
Asterix said:
Awesome car.
andyps said:
I would love a full size Bentley, just fantastic machines. The Azure is possibly even better than the Arnage but maybe need one of each.
As to it being vulgar, I really don't think a Bentley falls into that category although I guess it is just a personal opinion, to me they are relatively understated, vulgar tends to mean flash to me.
Any car such as the Bentleys in this thread cannot be vulgar by definition, this chap's definition As to it being vulgar, I really don't think a Bentley falls into that category although I guess it is just a personal opinion, to me they are relatively understated, vulgar tends to mean flash to me.
Balmoral Green 2006
"So, the new RR&B forum is gathering momentum nicely, thanks Ted and poorcardealer for suggesting it.
So how about a list of who's running what then? so we all know.
Balmoral Green, Turbo R.
poorcardealer, Brooklands.
flashgitindenial, Continental GT.
jhoneyball, Turbo RT.
Honourable mention, Deristrictor, used to run a Turbo RT."
DeR 2012
"Even an early Red Label will leave you awestruck. It's very true that the imperiousness of the Turbo R cars was abandoned with the saloons from 98 but once Crewe went back to the venerable 6.75 for duties in 2000, the combo of sheer modernity interacting with something under the bonnet secretly devised by the factory's secret, Russian skunk works, 'TSVO' (Tchaikovsky Special Vehicle Ops) was a sheer brilliance of delivery so rounded, it meant you only had one reaction to the plunging of that thing which charges. Inane chuckling."
"Living in France where the roads are generally tarmac rather than some amalgam of medieval pebble dash, it has to be the RT. Whilst plebs may decry it on the grounds of fatuous stereotyping, the truth is these old crates represent the end of something broadly analogue and unapologetically imperfect but equally, magical. Very few cars can deliver remotely the same sense of imperious tingle. If they were a form of domestic heating, the three-box Bentleys from 1980-98 would be the most magnificent, grandiose, roaring, open wood burning fires and your chimneys would billow like the Mallard at 125 mph. Whilst Arnage kind are indubitably fine and dandy, they lack the spirit of Bessemer which is innate within every creaking strain of pressing surfaces; of leather upon steel joist, protest at the myriad spot welds baulking in synch with the leviathan up front reprising the finer moments of Sopwithian howl and rattle of decanter on polished, mirror matched veneers. Avoid chrome radiator surrounds and ghastly, polished wheels but otherwise, embrace and engage The Elgar."
"So, the new RR&B forum is gathering momentum nicely, thanks Ted and poorcardealer for suggesting it.
So how about a list of who's running what then? so we all know.
Balmoral Green, Turbo R.
poorcardealer, Brooklands.
flashgitindenial, Continental GT.
jhoneyball, Turbo RT.
Honourable mention, Deristrictor, used to run a Turbo RT."
DeR 2012
"Even an early Red Label will leave you awestruck. It's very true that the imperiousness of the Turbo R cars was abandoned with the saloons from 98 but once Crewe went back to the venerable 6.75 for duties in 2000, the combo of sheer modernity interacting with something under the bonnet secretly devised by the factory's secret, Russian skunk works, 'TSVO' (Tchaikovsky Special Vehicle Ops) was a sheer brilliance of delivery so rounded, it meant you only had one reaction to the plunging of that thing which charges. Inane chuckling."
"Living in France where the roads are generally tarmac rather than some amalgam of medieval pebble dash, it has to be the RT. Whilst plebs may decry it on the grounds of fatuous stereotyping, the truth is these old crates represent the end of something broadly analogue and unapologetically imperfect but equally, magical. Very few cars can deliver remotely the same sense of imperious tingle. If they were a form of domestic heating, the three-box Bentleys from 1980-98 would be the most magnificent, grandiose, roaring, open wood burning fires and your chimneys would billow like the Mallard at 125 mph. Whilst Arnage kind are indubitably fine and dandy, they lack the spirit of Bessemer which is innate within every creaking strain of pressing surfaces; of leather upon steel joist, protest at the myriad spot welds baulking in synch with the leviathan up front reprising the finer moments of Sopwithian howl and rattle of decanter on polished, mirror matched veneers. Avoid chrome radiator surrounds and ghastly, polished wheels but otherwise, embrace and engage The Elgar."
andy43 said:
This era of Bentley is just pure class. No footballist would choose one over a VW Continental, no matter how shiny da rimz.
There's a dark blue Arnage, similar age, just up the road from me - makes me smile every time I see it. We recently bought a wicker picnic basket - wine glasses, knapkins, space for champagne etc. I really am trying to convince the OH we should get a Bentley to go with it....
The Azure linked to earlier is what I'd really want though...just look at it...
Beautiful machines - and for about 30k upwards for a tidy Arnage a total bargain.
Sounds like you have the perfect excuse for buying a Bentley, may have to use that one myself!There's a dark blue Arnage, similar age, just up the road from me - makes me smile every time I see it. We recently bought a wicker picnic basket - wine glasses, knapkins, space for champagne etc. I really am trying to convince the OH we should get a Bentley to go with it....
The Azure linked to earlier is what I'd really want though...just look at it...
Beautiful machines - and for about 30k upwards for a tidy Arnage a total bargain.
turbobloke said:
.....embrace and engage The Elgar."
More prose ideally suited to non-footballer Bentley..derestrictor said:
This thread inspired me to reconsider the merits of the turbocharged warhorse and it struck me that nothing to date has ever matched the old RT, upon entering therein, ito a 'sense of occasion.'
Seriously, although people may mock and scoff, given the relative, near sheepskin factor of early Turbos, these later cars nevertheless had/have so much thoroughbred decorum when swooshing along which, combined with the finest looking luxury interior still conceived [it makes one "coo" with appreciation], forces me to reconsider that the level of joy of ownership is a commonly, criminally overlooked opportunity.
When you factor in still credible performance as found in the case of the RL model and onwards (380, 400 for the RT then 420bhp for run out Mulliner editions) and the "nobody does torque like Bentley" stump pullage, I'm semi surprised you don't see more as daily hackers: they return economy with less profligacy than some 4x4s.
The view down that bonnet, the scent of finest, leather acreage and the clear abscence of parts bin cost accounting, all serves to impart a quite unique flavour of motoring and yes, with the rising swell of internally combusted Elgar, the heart soars, the anvil sinks and you forget what an empty vessel Albion has become.
Utterly wonderful.
Seriously, although people may mock and scoff, given the relative, near sheepskin factor of early Turbos, these later cars nevertheless had/have so much thoroughbred decorum when swooshing along which, combined with the finest looking luxury interior still conceived [it makes one "coo" with appreciation], forces me to reconsider that the level of joy of ownership is a commonly, criminally overlooked opportunity.
When you factor in still credible performance as found in the case of the RL model and onwards (380, 400 for the RT then 420bhp for run out Mulliner editions) and the "nobody does torque like Bentley" stump pullage, I'm semi surprised you don't see more as daily hackers: they return economy with less profligacy than some 4x4s.
The view down that bonnet, the scent of finest, leather acreage and the clear abscence of parts bin cost accounting, all serves to impart a quite unique flavour of motoring and yes, with the rising swell of internally combusted Elgar, the heart soars, the anvil sinks and you forget what an empty vessel Albion has become.
Utterly wonderful.
granville/der said:
Squire,
The VW is undoubtedly the better car but then again, you could ditch all pretence, don the gold chainery and bling yourself silly at this level with a biturbocharged or s/charged AMG Merc.
Which of course is out of the question, thus, the meander back to the 6.75 menu is unavoidable.
The Continentals look magnificent but are basically too compromised...in the face of later Arnages.
You really must look at the Arnage R: twin turbos and a perfectly adequate vat of warming lard in the oven, it suffers less of the crashing displayed by the T variant and defines the point perfectly, traversing the line between the minimum level of acceptable, contemporary dynamic whilst willfully resisting the allure of too many ticks with too much wedge and absolutely no idea.
If you need the thick end of 200 from a non-out and out supercar, the Ferrari 456 is an acceptable alternative, as detailed in Buckley's latest piece in the latest Autocar (he prefers the Continental.)
Those Arnages, though: they may be too small next to the prev gen Rs but for simply aiming at the vermin and shouting loudly at their body piercings, what else is there?
I'm sold The VW is undoubtedly the better car but then again, you could ditch all pretence, don the gold chainery and bling yourself silly at this level with a biturbocharged or s/charged AMG Merc.
Which of course is out of the question, thus, the meander back to the 6.75 menu is unavoidable.
The Continentals look magnificent but are basically too compromised...in the face of later Arnages.
You really must look at the Arnage R: twin turbos and a perfectly adequate vat of warming lard in the oven, it suffers less of the crashing displayed by the T variant and defines the point perfectly, traversing the line between the minimum level of acceptable, contemporary dynamic whilst willfully resisting the allure of too many ticks with too much wedge and absolutely no idea.
If you need the thick end of 200 from a non-out and out supercar, the Ferrari 456 is an acceptable alternative, as detailed in Buckley's latest piece in the latest Autocar (he prefers the Continental.)
Those Arnages, though: they may be too small next to the prev gen Rs but for simply aiming at the vermin and shouting loudly at their body piercings, what else is there?
I once had the pleasure of riding in a Continental T many years ago as my grandfather was looking to replace his Turbo R. What a stunning machine. At the time they were the torquiest cars you could buy.http://www.colbrookspecialists.co.uk/images/154-1997-Bentley-continental-t-side.jpg
But, if I could afford a Bentley now, I'd have the Brooklands coupe. Beautiful.http://images.cdn.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/styles/gallery_slide/public/146772043.jpg?itok=Pumuf5mo
But, if I could afford a Bentley now, I'd have the Brooklands coupe. Beautiful.http://images.cdn.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/styles/gallery_slide/public/146772043.jpg?itok=Pumuf5mo
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