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r129sl said:
I thought I'd asked this earlier but obviously cocked up my post. So second time lucky. What is the Thread view of the Bentley Continental GT? I find myself hankering after an early (i.e. cheap) one. Not footballer/drug spec. Green paint, tan leather, clear glass, silver wheels. Out of budget, of course (although surely it's only a matter of time), but out of sorts?
Green & tan / beigeNavy & tan / beige
Dark Grey / burgundy
All look good, early cars suffer from ECU issues and water ingress into the boot (which damages the ECU).
Parts can be expensive obviously, but there is some good knowledge out there these days.
Nice car, expensive to run (relatively), but I’d have one and budget £3k p.a. with a good specialist and excluding big ticket items.
TommoAE86 said:
grudas said:
Big spaces make me happy 
Grudas posts JDM Yakuza barge... Tommo goes 
I'm hoping for a foggy night soon to take some moody photo's of my S180 now it's October 
0a said:
I agree about the Continental GT. I really liked the design, the image problem comes from those who drive them. I’d have a Lexus SC430 though.
Like 0a, I'm a fan of lunch-time drinking! I'm going to demur on the Conti GT - irredeemably non-thread. Tries too hard and manages to combine gauche over-styled design with an awful image (regardless of colour), and all that despite that wonderful heritage. Of course I'd have one.
The Don of Croy said:
Krikkit said:
... focus on their phalanx...
As a resident of Sussex I'd be a bit circumspect doing that in public.A 325ti is a nice motor. Did you get the (essential) multi-function parcel shelf? An unusual rwd hot hatch.
Don't have the funky parcel shelf, I'll acquire one.
Here’s the 850. I have an offer in, just waiting to hear back,
180k miles, but has had a huge amount of work done the last few years to refresh bits and pieces, most of the suspension, clutch, PCV system, almost all the usual foibles sorted. It’s top money for one of these, but good ones are hard to find now.
Blue.
Very Blue.
180k miles, but has had a huge amount of work done the last few years to refresh bits and pieces, most of the suspension, clutch, PCV system, almost all the usual foibles sorted. It’s top money for one of these, but good ones are hard to find now.
Blue.
Very Blue.
That 850 does nothing to stop me wanting another Swede.
And in unrelated (sort of because the SM is IMHO the essence of barge mixed with gallic shrugs and exotic fragile Italian engineering) bit of posting. Here's a very old video stolen from jalopnik.
https://youtu.be/d9M-5CPEtr0
And in unrelated (sort of because the SM is IMHO the essence of barge mixed with gallic shrugs and exotic fragile Italian engineering) bit of posting. Here's a very old video stolen from jalopnik.
https://youtu.be/d9M-5CPEtr0
r129sl said:
I thought I'd asked this earlier but obviously cocked up my post. So second time lucky. What is the Thread view of the Bentley Continental GT? I find myself hankering after an early (i.e. cheap) one. Not footballer/drug spec. Green paint, tan leather, clear glass, silver wheels. Out of budget, of course (although surely it's only a matter of time), but out of sorts?
Lovely car, madly fast, and very comfortable, but go for 07MY onwards. Ideally let it live it out of the rain as well.
I think about this a lot and always come to conclusion that if I had a Continental GT I would wish it was a DB9, and if I had a DB9 I would wish it was a Continental GT.
I have solved this conundrum by not being able to afford either.
Continental GT is night-and-day the superior product. But DB9 is sexy.
r129sl said:
I thought I'd asked this earlier but obviously cocked up my post. So second time lucky. What is the Thread view of the Bentley Continental GT? I find myself hankering after an early (i.e. cheap) one. Not footballer/drug spec. Green paint, tan leather, clear glass, silver wheels. Out of budget, of course (although surely it's only a matter of time), but out of sorts?
Ooh, ooh! PLEASE DO THIS JR. But as you say, it has to be the complete opposite of footballer spec. Surely a vary dark green or blue with the smallest possible wheels (which are still probably 19”!) can now be an elegant thing given that the original target market will consider them to be hopelessly outdated?
I’ve admired them from afar for years but there’s no way I’d have the balls, and it would be utterly daft for my couple of k miles per year.
(In other news; the Mccracken household is now the proud possessor of not one, but two, Honda Jazzes, both in a colour which I believe is known as “Terribly Tedious Silver”. Shoot me now!)
ETA: I still “possesss” the E320 so I assume I can still retain thread membership, but when it goes is there a grace period before I am banned from thread sin die?
Edited by mccrackenj on Saturday 5th October 21:17
Salmonofdoubt said:
Johnny Raydome said:
SpeckledJim said:
I have solved this conundrum by not being able to afford either.
You and me both.I use the same problem-solving criterion.
SpeckledJim said:
r129sl said:
I thought I'd asked this earlier but obviously cocked up my post. So second time lucky. What is the Thread view of the Bentley Continental GT? I find myself hankering after an early (i.e. cheap) one. Not footballer/drug spec. Green paint, tan leather, clear glass, silver wheels. Out of budget, of course (although surely it's only a matter of time), but out of sorts?
Lovely car, madly fast, and very comfortable, but go for 07MY onwards. Ideally let it live it out of the rain as well.
I think about this a lot and always come to conclusion that if I had a Continental GT I would wish it was a DB9, and if I had a DB9 I would wish it was a Continental GT.
I have solved this conundrum by not being able to afford either.
Continental GT is night-and-day the superior product. But DB9 is sexy.
There are a few on PH <£25k and even one or two <£20k.
Tempting just for jokes.
I'm still not sure about the CGT, but the flying spur is a yes from me in not-black.
Frightening maintenance potential though, shoehorning a W12 into an engine bay that leaves 0 room for working. I seem to remember that an alternator change is an engine out job? Lots of Bentley only parts too, with a suitable tax.
I would absolutely have one, although a DB9 is more desirable, I suspect the Bentley would be crushingly good at effortless travel.
Frightening maintenance potential though, shoehorning a W12 into an engine bay that leaves 0 room for working. I seem to remember that an alternator change is an engine out job? Lots of Bentley only parts too, with a suitable tax.
I would absolutely have one, although a DB9 is more desirable, I suspect the Bentley would be crushingly good at effortless travel.
Macron said:
mccrackenj said:
, and it would be utterly daft perfect for my couple of k miles per year. In fact, will I ever have such an opportunity again, for example if I suddenly find I have to do heaps of miles? Then it would be silly. Now, however, magnifico.
FTFY.I’m alright with the Continental. Mother ran one for a couple of years (a Speed no less) and I used to borrow it regularly. Which as we know is always preferable to owning one.
Never before did 600bhp feel so subtle. Stand on the loud pedal and the expected wallop in the back never quite arrived, but cars in slower lanes somehow seemed to stand on the brakes. The way all that inertia rapidly gathered pace, all in near silence, never failed to amuse.
It drank fuel and ate tyres of course, the VAG clues were hard to ignore, and corrosion appeared around the boot lid at 4 years old. But it was always an event to drive, just as any Bentley should be.
Never before did 600bhp feel so subtle. Stand on the loud pedal and the expected wallop in the back never quite arrived, but cars in slower lanes somehow seemed to stand on the brakes. The way all that inertia rapidly gathered pace, all in near silence, never failed to amuse.
It drank fuel and ate tyres of course, the VAG clues were hard to ignore, and corrosion appeared around the boot lid at 4 years old. But it was always an event to drive, just as any Bentley should be.
This one is a wheel refurb away from brilliant I'd say: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...
Krikkit said:
I seem to remember that an alternator change is an engine out job?
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