Bentley Brooklands

[Beemer-5]

A fella in California i know, who owns a large automotive paint and body repair company, has ordered the above.
$400,000 apparently.
I wonder how many are being made in LHD?
It WILL BE LHD, i presume?

[cardigankid]

Have a look at the latest copy of Autocar, there is a detailed article about an extended drive by one of their guys in Bentley Chairman Paefgen's personal Brooklands. It sounds and looks impressive.

[Beemer-5]

Don't doubt it will be impressive. It wants to be for a quarter of a million pounds!
But i thought they were a very limited edition, all RHD?
Maybe not!

[cardigankid]

I don't have it in front of me now, but I think that one is LHD. I don't see them selling 300 in the UK.

[Beemer-5]

I just had a look. Big old beast for a 2-door!

Nice.

[Balmoral Green]

I think they plan to do 500 only.

[Beemer-5]

Well, he's 1 of 500 lucky people then!

[smiller]

I picked up this week's Autocar earlier, and it does look like two and a half tons of deliciousness

[Balmoral Green]

I haven't been out in one, but I have had a very close look at one, inside and out. It is every inch a proper old school Mulliner Rolls Royce.

[LongLiveTazio]

Looks absolutely brilliant, I think.

[zaktoo]

LongLiveTazio said:

Looks absolutely brilliant, I think.

Have to agree

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Got the chance to have a look at the Brooklands last year at the Bentley Drivers Club day.

It is a stunning car: -





Have a client not far from the Bentley factory and whenever I am up there I always see loads of Continental GT's, Arnages etc but just recently have seen a few Brooklands being tested before being shipped to their new owners.

Regards

Tim

[cardigankid]

Initially I wondered if it was too heavy. The more pictures I see the more convinced I am that it looks absolutely right. The cream one in the Autocar article is LHD and I see that they are going to make 550 in all. Quite superb.

[Bluebottle911]

Not as good looking as the Continental R/S/T, methinks, but probably rather more room in the back.

[cardigankid]

Well, yes, I wouldn't detract from the Continental R's for a second. I wish I could buy one - they are still £40-50k and the rest. But this, and it does have elegance as well, is a big powerful charismatic beast, which has a certain resonance with the heritage, do you not think?

[jhoneyball]

It is truly magnificent -- and it is tempting to buy one to keep forever.

[patmahe]

There are images of the interior in autocar this week and it looks to be the most superbly finished thing ever.

[jhoneyball]

And with the announcement of Naim Audio providing the hifi, it will sound fab too!

[cardigankid]

Bentley I know - and I did pick up the Naim announcement, but who the f__k are they? Linn, yes, Alpine, yes, Huntley & Palmer or whoever Aston Martin are using, but Naim? It sounds as if it was a perfume or something to do with Naim Attalah?

[Balmoral Green]

Not heard of Naim? You'll be telling us next you didn't know it had Graham Williams foundry door handles.