RE: Bentley SUV - green light, go
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I can't really see it taking on the king of luxuary 4x4s in either:
Looks, off road ability, and lets face it doing anything to top it in luxuary either.
I can't see it taking on a Cayenne Turbo in overall performance, the only thing it has managed to beat the Cayenne on so far is how badly its been beaten with the ugly stick.
Good luck to Bentley though, I'm sure lots of people will buy them.
Looks, off road ability, and lets face it doing anything to top it in luxuary either.
I can't see it taking on a Cayenne Turbo in overall performance, the only thing it has managed to beat the Cayenne on so far is how badly its been beaten with the ugly stick.
Good luck to Bentley though, I'm sure lots of people will buy them.
I don't know, that's quite some feat.
The notion that global brands care what the UK consumer thinks is one people really should have been disabused of by now. We get what we're given.
As others have said, the Bentley has been designed to appeal to the burgeoning markets in the east. If the prevailing taste there also happens to be shared by a few customers over here, they're welcome to buy one too but they certainly aren't the target market.
Why on earth would Bentley care what anyone here thinks about a product destined for China?
As others have said, the Bentley has been designed to appeal to the burgeoning markets in the east. If the prevailing taste there also happens to be shared by a few customers over here, they're welcome to buy one too but they certainly aren't the target market.
Why on earth would Bentley care what anyone here thinks about a product destined for China?
Edited by Risotto on Thursday 25th July 12:19
DreadUK said:
like most British designs, too scared to rock the boat and design something radical.
If the boundaries ain't pushed we would still be driving Ford Popular's and Zepheyrs, which were also considered an American abomination at the time.
True - Aston seem to be enthusiastically following the Lotus school of car design, i.e. come up with a great product and then facelift it year after year rather than developing a replacement model. The money they should be using on a new model is instead wasted on producing increasingly niche variations on the same theme. Eventually, the core model becomes too diluted/obsolete and the new customers disappear. Surprise! Not.If the boundaries ain't pushed we would still be driving Ford Popular's and Zepheyrs, which were also considered an American abomination at the time.
The one exception that comes to mind is the Jaguar XJ. Thank god they decided to make it look different and upset all the die-hard enthusiasts who, if they'd had their way, would have insisted on another tired pastiche of the original XJ.
Edited by Risotto on Thursday 25th July 12:41
Risotto said:
True - Aston seem to be enthusiastically following the Lotus school of car design, i.e. come up with a great product and then facelift it year after year rather than developing a replacement model. The money they should be using on a new model is instead wasted on producing increasingly niche variations on the same theme. Eventually, the core model becomes too diluted/obsolete and the new customers disappear. Surprise! Not.
The one exception that comes to mind is the Jaguar XJ. Thank god they decided to make it look different and upset all the die-hard enthusiasts who, if they'd had their way, would have insisted on another tired pastiche of the original XJ.
A facelift costs pennys compared to a whole new vehicle, this is what could kill a lot of smaller manufacturers you need masses of approval and masses of devlopment budget, without which you can't get a new vehicle off the ground, Rover had plans for a 6 series for decades but never had the cash to actually get it off the ground as a product they could sell.The one exception that comes to mind is the Jaguar XJ. Thank god they decided to make it look different and upset all the die-hard enthusiasts who, if they'd had their way, would have insisted on another tired pastiche of the original XJ.
Edited by Risotto on Thursday 25th July 12:41
zebedee said:
y2blade said:
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