Bentley Mulsanne Coupe And Convertible Versions In The Works: Report

Bentley Mulsanne Coupe And Convertible Versions In The Works: Report

FOLLOWING THE LEAD of the Continental GT coupe, convertible and Flying Spur saloon, the all-new 2011 Bentley Mulsanne might be heading towards a similar model expansion.

According to British news site Auto Express, Bentley is working to replace the Arnage-based Brooklands coupe and Azure convertible with Mulsanne-bodied equivalents.

Replacing the Arnage in the Bentley line-up, the Mulsanne [...]

2011 Bentley Mulsanne Interior Revealed In New Image Gallery

2011 Bentley Mulsanne Interior Revealed In New Image Gallery

IT REPRESENTS THE PINNACLE of luxury cars, according to Bentley, and while Rolls-Royce might have some thoughts on that, the 2011 Bentley Mulsanne certainly has an arresting presence.

Revealed at August’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California, the all-new Bentley - previously known only as the Grand Bentley - draws its inspiration from the 8-litre Bentley [...]

Bentley To Premiere Series 51 Continental Range At Frankfurt

Bentley To Premiere Series 51 Continental Range At Frankfurt

BENTLEY IS PREPARING to launch a new line of special-edition models for its 2010 Continental range, which will debut at Frankfurt and kick off with the Series 51 Continental GTC.

Named after the year in which Bentley established its first styling department, the Series 51 models carry a number of aesthetic improvements, both inside and [...]

2010 Grand Bentley Prototype Spied During Testing

2010 Grand Bentley Prototype Spied During Testing

BENTLEY’S UPCOMING replacement for the Arnage has been spotted undergoing testing, giving us our first proper look at the proportions of the stately all-new sedan.

But with every panel bar the roof covered by a thick layer of plastic cladding, the sheetmetal of the new “Grand Bentley” is almost entirely obscured.

What we can discern however, is [...]

Grand Bentley Teaser Campaign Continues, New Video Revealed

Grand Bentley Teaser Campaign Continues, New Video Revealed

THE TEASERS CONTINUE to flow from Bentley on the successor to the venerable Arnage. A new video has landed giving us a glimpse of the design philosophies at work in the soon-to-appear new Grand Bentley.

The quintessentially British marque announced earlier this month that its all-new model will be making its global debut at the Pebble [...]

2010 Bentley Continental Supersports Attacks The Tarmac At Goodwood: Video

2010 Bentley Continental Supersports Attacks The Tarmac At Goodwood: Video

BENTLEY’S MOST POWERFUL road-going car yet, the Continental Supersports, was wheeled out at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed and put in the more-than-capable hands of multiple Le Mans-winner Derek Bell, who took the sports coupe through its paces up Goodwood’s famous hillclimb course.

With a 0-96km/h sprint time of 3.7 seconds and a top speed [...]

Bentley Officially Announces Arnage Replacement, Teaser Campaign Begins

Bentley Officially Announces Arnage Replacement, Teaser Campaign Begins

THE REPLACEMENT for Bentley’s stately Arnage has been a long time coming, but the British luxury carmaker has today announced that its replacement is just around the corner.

Bentley says the new range-topper will be, ” an all-new Bentley, positioned at the very pinnacle of the market”.

That’s a pretty clear indication that instead of playing second [...]

2009 Bentley Continental GTC Speed Lands In Australia

2009 Bentley Continental GTC Speed Lands In Australia

BENTLEY’S MOST POWERFUL convertible ever - the Continental GTC Speed - has arrived in Australian showrooms, bringing with it a thundering 448kW W12 engine and the ability to hit 312km/h… with the roof down.

It also carries a number of aesthetic revisions to mark it out as the company’s quickest drop-top. With its reshaped grille, headlamp [...]

Entire Bentley Range To Be Flex-Fuel Capable By 2012, New Powertrain On Its Way

Entire Bentley Range To Be Flex-Fuel Capable By 2012, New Powertrain On Its Way

The hedonistic pleasures of ultra-luxurious automobiles would ordinarily seem at odds with any sort of concern for the environment, but Bentley is aiming to change all that with its new focus on high-efficiency, alternative fuel engines.

The British automaker announced yesterday that its entire stable of high-end coupes, sedans and limousines will all be capable of [...]

Lawsuit Alert: Chinese Manufacturer Planning Bentley Clone?

Lawsuit Alert: Chinese Manufacturer Planning Bentley Clone?

Little-known Chinese carmaker the Huatai Group is allegedly working on a high-end luxury sedan, which, as chance would have it, bears a striking resemblence to an existing model from another manufacturer.

You might not pick it from looking at the thing nose-on, but from the rear it all becomes obvious: this is nothing but a shameless [...]

Bentley Gears Up For Economic Recovery

Bentley Gears Up For Economic Recovery

Now is most definitely not a great time to be a luxury carmaker. The global economic crisis has taken its toll everywhere, and the moneyed-up elite, who usually had no qualms about forking over mega-dollars for the latest in automobile-excess, are instead hiding their pennies under a mattress.

But according to Bentley, the end of our [...]

Next Bentley Arnage To Get Audi Turbo-Diesel Power?

Next Bentley Arnage To Get Audi Turbo-Diesel Power?

While Bentley is looking to BioFuel to power its stonkingly fast Continental Supersports, the Bentley-Audi relationship may see the next Arnage powered by one of Audi’s turbo-diesel mills.

The latest news on the rumour-mill is that the British importer for Audi has inadvertently revealed that the next Arnage will offer Audi’s V12 diesel. That’s the one [...]

Bentley Workers Take To Making Furniture

Bentley Workers Take To Making Furniture

While BMW is busy designing computer case concepts, Bentley has put its woodworking team at Crewe – responsible for the wooden interior trims of its big luxury cars – to work creating cabinets, tables and furniture.

Never fear though, Bentley owners, nobody is going to receive their Bentley without its walnut trim.

In an effort to stave [...]

2009 Melbourne Motor Show - The Supercars – Bentley

2009 Melbourne Motor Show - The Supercars – Bentley

Pack up your cloth caps and smoking pipes as Bentley is at the Melbourne Motor Show 2009. And, as if you didn’t know, the modern Bentley line-up is all about curvalicious bodies, pampering luxury, brushed-aluminium and wood-grain, and spades of powerrrr.

No new unveilings from Bentley at the Motor Show today, but four stratospherically powerful and luxurious cars on show.

The Bentley Speed [...]

Bentley Continental Supersports Revealed

Bentley Continental Supersports Revealed

We first copped a look at the Bentley Continental Supersports around this time last month, though at the time it didn’t have a name – or at least not one that Bentley was willing to divulge.

In fact, all anyone would tell us was that it would be the company’s fastest, most powerful production car ever.

The [...]

Bentley BioFuel Supercar Details And Video Released

Bentley BioFuel Supercar Details And Video Released

When Bentley said it was preparing its “fastest, most powerful production car ever,” we took notice.

Now, mere weeks away from the car’s scheduled unveiling at the Geneva Motor Show on March 3rd, Bentley has released a video to keep our interest piqued, and boy does it work a treat.

Based on the Bentley Continental (GT Speed [...]

Bentley Bringing Continental Flying Spur Speed Four-Door And Continental GT Speed Coupe To MIMS

Bentley Bringing Continental Flying Spur Speed Four-Door And Continental GT Speed Coupe To MIMS

Did you know that there are only four manufacturers who can lay claim to exhibiting at both the inaugural Melbourne Motor Show in 1925, and the upcoming 2009 Show? Ford, Peugeot, Renault and Bentley.

At the 1925 Motor Show, Bentley had four 3 Litres in various body styles exhibited by its local agent Brodribb Bros. This [...]

Bentley Zagato GTZ - Yours For Just $2.6 Million

Bentley Zagato GTZ - Yours For Just $2.6 Million

Aching to get your hands on an uber-exclusive and unfathomably expensive British luxo-cruiser, but can’t be arsed waiting for the upcoming ‘Extreme Bentley’? Well, hold onto your wallets and feast your eyes on the first Bentley Continental GTZ to be built by Italian coachbuilder Zagato - which can be yours for the bargain price of [...]

Bentley To Unveil Its Fastest Most Powerful-Ever Production Car

Bentley To Unveil Its Fastest Most Powerful-Ever Production Car

Bentley dances to its own tune and there is nothing wrong with that. The manufacturer of some of the world’s more prestigious gentleman’s carriages unveiled the new Continental GTC Speed, the world’s fastest four-seat convertible, at the recent Detroit Auto Show.

Not content to leave well-enough alone, it now plans to unveil its FASTEST, MOST POWERFUL [...]

Bentley Plans Seven-Week Production Shut-down

Bentley Plans Seven-Week Production Shut-down

In the current mess, the old adage that the ‘rich get richer’ may not now be quite so accurate. Bentley has announced that, due to dwindling demand, it will stop manufacturing operations for six to seven weeks between March and May of this year.

After posting a record sales result of 10,014 cars in 2007, the end-of-year results for [...]

2010 Bentley Continental GTC Speed Revealed

2010 Bentley Continental GTC Speed Revealed

Plutocrats of the world, your weekend car is here. Bentley has dropped a bevy of pics and a book’s-worth of info on the 2010 Continental GTC Speed ahead of its official debut at the Detroit Motor Show. Bentley claims it to be the most powerful drop-top ever to emerge from the quintessentially British brand’s factory [...]

Diesel Bentley On The Horizon?

Diesel Bentley On The Horizon?

Hold onto your monocles chaps: Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn has strongly hinted that an oil-burning luxo-barge from Bentley may be on the cards.

Winterkorn dropped the bombshell during an interview with German mag Auto Motor und Sport this week when he said:
“With Bentley we will react to the changing market conditions. I could well imagine [...]

Bentley ‘Azure T’ To Debut In Los Angeles

Bentley ‘Azure T’ To Debut In Los Angeles

As Bentley winds up the Arnage range, each platform in the family has been given the last-hoorah special treatment. Now it’s the droptop’s turn. The Brooklands Coupe and Arnage Final Series sedan will now be joined by the Azure T when it goes on display at this month’s Los Angeles Motor Show.

The Azure T will represent the pinnacle of [...]

Bentley Arnage Marks Its End With Exclusive Run Of 150 ‘Final Series’

Bentley Arnage Marks Its End With Exclusive Run Of 150 ‘Final Series’

Hand crafted at Bentley’s UK facility in Crewe since 1998, the Bentley Arnage Final Series is an exclusive final run of 150 cars - created to bid ‘farewell’ to the highly successful Arnage line in the most fitting manner and style.  Bentley Chairman and Chief Executive, Dr Franz-Josef Paefgen, explains:
“For 10 years, Arnage has enjoyed [...]

Bentley Boys S3 E Design Concept

Bentley Boys S3 E Design Concept

Scion’s Hako concept car is not the only recent creation to draw on past influences. The Bentley Boys in the USA have revealed their Bentley S3-based concept that melds 1960’s styling with new millennium technology – and unlike the Hako it looks sensational.

Designed by Arturo Alonso the 2009 Bentley S3 based concept uses the original [...]

Bentley Continental GTZ by Zagato

Bentley Continental GTZ by Zagato

In an era of mass-production it is pleasing to know that there are still coach builders out there (famous ones too) who delight in completely redesigning the products of manufacturers who have already spent millions honing and refining their designs.

The Bentley Continental GTZ is an example of one such massive makeover, by Italian coachbuilder Zagato. [...]

Bentley gets serious about speed

Bentley gets serious about speed

People who own less then 4 houses, 2 businesses and a parking space for a large yacht in Monaco need not read this article as you are unlikely to fit Bentley’s core demographic. Overnight Bentley has announced the revival of ‘Speed’, a name that has been dormant in Crewe headquarters in England since the early [...]

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