Check out the first production Batur Convertible

750hp W12 gets 'One Plus One' colourway from Mulliner - 15 more are to follow

By Matt Bird / Friday, 8 August 2025 / Loading comments

While the 6.0-litre, twin-turbo W12 is no longer available for the series production Bentleys, let’s not forget about its swansong, the Batur. It is the most powerful W12 Bentley ever produced, with 750hp, and is incredibly rare even by the standards of Crewe’s missiles. Just 18 coupes were produced, now being followed up by 16 Convertibles - the first customer example of which has now been completed.

As you might expect for a special edition Bentley that will have cost millions, the spec is lavish to say the least. Bentley calls it ‘One plus One’, with the driver’s seat receiving a completely different colour treatment to the passenger’s pew; Bentley suggests it is a ‘driver-focused cockpit ‘capsule’. The driver sits in a Beluga black seat with Alcantara and the Batur pattern in the bolsters; the person on the other side has linen hide to contrast, both complemented by Mandarin stitching. That extends to the two-piece luggage set and even the key cases.

Other details that mark this Batur out include machined titanium for the shift paddles, the organ stop air vent controls and the rotary controls on the stalk. There’s also Mandarin contrast stitching for the wheel, Beluga veneer for the centre console and a ‘subtle satin black engine spin finish’ for the fascias.

That Batur’s exterior is finished in Opalite, with a black racing stripe itself flanked by Mandarin pinstripes; it’s a colour scheme that’s made its way to the wheels also, perhaps a little less successfully. Bentley reckons the ‘visual drama emphasises the performance of the 750hp W12 powertrain’, and there’s not much arguing with that. There will be no mistaking this for a Bacalar, or a hardtop Batur - or any other Bentley for that matter; ‘as individual as its owner’ really does apply here. Quite some act for the following 15 to follow…