RE: Bentley Bentayga V8: Driven

[iSore]

DonkeyApple said:

She probably meant things like Kias , Dacias and other cheap sort of cars as very left wing people always despise the poor and hold them in contempt but adore the wealthy.

[Willy Nilly]

MC Bodge said:

Willy Nilly said:

If you parked a Tourareg, Cayenne, Q7 and Bentayga next to each other in that order you would see the similarities. I don't consider myself an aficionado of design, but even I can see the cars are clearly related. If platform sharing is so great (fine for the mass market), why don't VW use the Crafter platform for the Bentayga? Chuck some fancy leather seats in it and an expensive clock in the dash then charge 200 grand for it, no one would ever need know.

As you know I'm no fan of SUV's but if you look at the L405 Range Rover it was designed from the ground up as a Range Rover. It's not used a modified Mondeo platform, or a stretched Fiat Panda chassis, it's a Range Rover and designed from the very start to be a luxury SUV. Not my thing, but no pissing about, no compromises.

Why do you care?

I don't really know, but am sort of anti-brand and marketing. Were I to be in the position of being able to spend that kind of money on a car and fancied a Bentley, I'd want to come home with a Bentley, not a badge engineered VW. I'm sure the VW is a perfectly good car, but it's not a Bentley. If you go to Fortnum and Mason, you don't expect to buy food made in a factory by Northern Foods and branded with F&M labels, you want something a bit special a really expensive VW is not a Bentley.

Cars like the Turbo R are to me what a Bentley should be. Stupidly large V8, looks like a stately home and has those 2 fans turning menacingly behind the grill. Obviously, those cars are as old as the hills, so make a 21st century version, not one based on a peoples car, the people can't afford Bentley's.

People (rightly) laughed at that Toyota Aston Martin.

[J4CKO]

Willy Nilly said:

MC Bodge said:

Willy Nilly said:

If you parked a Tourareg, Cayenne, Q7 and Bentayga next to each other in that order you would see the similarities. I don't consider myself an aficionado of design, but even I can see the cars are clearly related. If platform sharing is so great (fine for the mass market), why don't VW use the Crafter platform for the Bentayga? Chuck some fancy leather seats in it and an expensive clock in the dash then charge 200 grand for it, no one would ever need know.

As you know I'm no fan of SUV's but if you look at the L405 Range Rover it was designed from the ground up as a Range Rover. It's not used a modified Mondeo platform, or a stretched Fiat Panda chassis, it's a Range Rover and designed from the very start to be a luxury SUV. Not my thing, but no pissing about, no compromises.

Why do you care?

I don't really know, but am sort of anti-brand and marketing. Were I to be in the position of being able to spend that kind of money on a car and fancied a Bentley, I'd want to come home with a Bentley, not a badge engineered VW. I'm sure the VW is a perfectly good car, but it's not a Bentley. If you go to Fortnum and Mason, you don't expect to buy food made in a factory by Northern Foods and branded with F&M labels, you want something a bit special a really expensive VW is not a Bentley.

Cars like the Turbo R are to me what a Bentley should be. Stupidly large V8, looks like a stately home and has those 2 fans turning menacingly behind the grill. Obviously, those cars are as old as the hills, so make a 21st century version, not one based on a peoples car, the people can't afford Bentley's.

People (rightly) laughed at that Toyota Aston Martin.

6 litre W12 doesnt hit the spot then ?

4 more cylinders and double the power.

you want "Menacing fans", support Millwall ?

[NomduJour]

I sort-of agree - everyone knows a Flying Spur is "better" than a Mulsanne, but the Mulsanne is far more appealing.

Similarly, there are some things (like looking utterly, laughably hideous) that a Bentayga does better than a Range Rover, but I know which has more intrinsic appeal (and it isn't the VW with every parts bin raided).

[MC Bodge]

Willy Nilly said:

MC Bodge said:

Willy Nilly said:

If you parked a Tourareg, Cayenne, Q7 and Bentayga next to each other in that order you would see the similarities. I don't consider myself an aficionado of design, but even I can see the cars are clearly related. If platform sharing is so great (fine for the mass market), why don't VW use the Crafter platform for the Bentayga? Chuck some fancy leather seats in it and an expensive clock in the dash then charge 200 grand for it, no one would ever need know.

As you know I'm no fan of SUV's but if you look at the L405 Range Rover it was designed from the ground up as a Range Rover. It's not used a modified Mondeo platform, or a stretched Fiat Panda chassis, it's a Range Rover and designed from the very start to be a luxury SUV. Not my thing, but no pissing about, no compromises.

Why do you care?

I don't really know, but am sort of anti-brand and marketing. Were I to be in the position of being able to spend that kind of money on a car and fancied a Bentley, I'd want to come home with a Bentley, not a badge engineered VW. I'm sure the VW is a perfectly good car, but it's not a Bentley. If you go to Fortnum and Mason, you don't expect to buy food made in a factory by Northern Foods and branded with F&M labels, you want something a bit special a really expensive VW is not a Bentley.

Cars like the Turbo R are to me what a Bentley should be. Stupidly large V8, looks like a stately home and has those 2 fans turning menacingly behind the grill. Obviously, those cars are as old as the hills, so make a 21st century version, not one based on a peoples car, the people can't afford Bentley's.

People (rightly) laughed at that Toyota Aston Martin.

Just ignore it...

[BIRMA]

I can only hope that this and the new design Continental fall of the cliff edge depreciation wise like the old models. The question is which one, f**k it if they're that low I'll buy both.

[chrisironside]

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The forcefulness of the delivery, expertly marshalled by the default eight-speed ZF automatic, is ideally matched with the molasses-like flow of the chassis. There's a price to pay for those oversized rims, of course, but it's a small one. For the most part the wheel control is in the large SUV sweet spot: ostensibly soft, yet irrefutably planted.

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[deltashad]

Ares said:

We have a load round here JACKO, and can you ever say you've seen one being driven badly/arrogantly or bullyingly? They are mostly driven my 50/60/70 yrs old blokes with 30/40 yr old wives .

Fixed that for you

[Ares]

deltashad said:

Ares said:

We have a load round here JACKO, and can you ever say you've seen one being driven badly/arrogantly or bullyingly? They are mostly driven my 50/60/70 yrs old blokes with 30/40 yr old wives .

Fixed that for you

Just adds to the envy