Sometimes, having too much money can harm people’s mind and desires, what can be a total kitsch for us can be a luxury for them. It is the case of an arabian from Dubai who recently got rich and and decided that if Bentley wouldn’t make a SUV line than he can invent one just for himself.
He could have chosen for a Range Rover, a Q7 or a VW Touareg V10 TDI but he wanted to invent his own SUV and so he embodied a Bentley in a Hummer. It looks really bad and hurts the eyes when looking at it, it is of totally bad taste but this is the result of too much money and no sense for beautiful.
Not only cars are being presented at the British Motor Show. Bentley, in collaboration with Ego for Lifestyle presented the T3 Exclusive, a hand built notebook, with authentic Bentley cross-over hand-stitching.
The T3 Exclusive features Microsoft Vista, a 64 bit processor, a 160GB hard drive and 12 direct access keys for quickly getting to the point. The name Exclusive said it all though: it will be priced at £10,000. But after all it has a Bentley logo on it!
One of the most powerful and exclusive cars on earth, the Continental GT will receive a new restyling kit from the well known tuning house, Wald International. They are “guilty” with quite some styling and performance kits for almost every major luxury car brand on the market.
The new kit touched by Wald gives a more aggressive look to the Continental GT by adding larger and more angular front intakes with separate brake ducts and a lower splitter. A slightly wider side-sill is added to the rear side skirts which features Wald’s signature, shark-gill extractor vents behind the rear wheels. Aside from the spoiler at the back of the car, the kit builds on the Continental GT’s basic look, adding aggressive styling to match the powerful engine under the hood. The new kit will be launched later this year.
As we are used to, Project Kahn unveiled another masterpiece based on the Bentley Continental GT, called the GTS ”Black Edition”. The car features a re-designed front bumper, new side sills and a rear boot spoiler. At the interior the vehicle features a leather upgrade, gloss piano fascia panels and a steering wheels featuring the same gloss piano finish or, at customer’s choice, a carbon fiber finish.
Press release after the jump!
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For the folks who don’t know, Strut is a manufacturer specialised in handcrafted chromed grilles, wheels and accesories for the luxury cars. The grilles you see in the photos belongs to the ”Oxford Collection” which is special built for the
Bentley Flying Spur. Strut offers grilles also for the
Bentley Continental GT, but these belong to the ”Greenwich Collection". The customized Flying Spur features a primary grille, front air dam intake and a Strut insignia. No words about the price yet!
Bentley will replace the current Arnage with an all-new design in about two years’ time. The future Arnage will feature a version of Audi’s spaceframe chassis and will be around 150 kg lighter.
The new Arnage will continue to have the unique proportions of the current model, particularly the traditional high roof and seating position, that give the car its "soul".
Rumors about Bentley going diesel or hybrid has been denied by Bentley chairman Franz-Josef Paefgen: "We have the technology to do a diesel right now," said Paefgen, "but whether we do it really depends on how successful VW, Mercedes and others are at normalising diesel sales in the US. Bentley could never lead the field in that area. You could only ever respond to a strong demand."
A recently Arnage prototype has been powered by the 987bhp Bugatti W16 engine.
Bentley today unveiled the 2009 Continental Flying Spur and the new version Spur Speed. The new model is set to deliver even greater levels of refinement, comfort and opportunities for customer personalization.
The Continental Flying Spur is powered by the new Bentley’s 6-litre, twin turbocharged W12 engine, the most compact 12-cylinder engine in production. The 48-valve head employs four camshafts and continually variable valve timing. Power is transmitted via an uprated ZF six-speed automatic transmission.
The W12 engine continues to produce 552bhp at 6100 rev/min and a maximum torque of 479lb ft from 1600 rev/min across virtually the entire rev range.
The Speed engine develops 15 percent more torque and nine percent more power than the standard Flying Spur, while engine efficiency is optimised by the use of lower friction, lighter-weight components and a new engine management system. The resultant performance is exceptional, with a top speed of 200mph (322km/h), a zero to 60mph sprint time of just 4.5 seconds (0-100km/h in 4.8s) and effortless overtaking capability.
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Specialised in tuning Bentley luxury vehicles, the Japanese tuning company ASI unveiled today its new Tetsu GTR based on the Bentley Continental GT. The most weird thing on this new vehicle you will find the painted hood, not that it is something wrong with a painting on a hood but to paint flowers on a Bentley it is already too much.
Although the artwork is made by Nakamura Tetsuei we cannot agree with putting flowers on a $800,000 car, that’s right, the car is priced at $800,000 and will be manufactured in a limited edition of just 29 units. Beside the wide-body kit consisting in a dry carbon hood, trunk and rear spoiler, side skirts, rear bumper featuring a an air diffuser with integrated exhaust system, the vehicle features also the 6.0 litre W12 engine re-programmed in order to develop an astonishing 800 hp.
2008 Bentley Continental GT Speed
Catalogated as one of the finest manufacturers in the world, Bentley showed us that even the biggest companies make mistakes. The British manufacturer owned by Volkswagen announced that it is recalling 13,000 vehicles in order to remediate a defection found at the fuel filter and caused by the road salt. According to Bentley, the defection affects all the Continental series built between 2004 and 2008. Although it sounds silly to recall the vehicles the manufacturer added that if not repaired the defection could cause a fuel leak and maybe a fire...
Renntech, the tuning company specialised in Mercedes vehicles showed that it can customize also other cars, not only the ones produced by the German manufactuer. With the unveiling of the new 600+ hp ECU tuning package Renntech added on its list of customized vehicles the British manufacturer Bentley.
With the new ECU package the engine of the car is boosted from 552 to 625 hp. The tunner also added a lowering module for the Bentley which allows the owners to lower it up to 50 mm. The American manufacturer offers the ECU software upgrade at a price of $6400 for the Bentley Continental GT and Flying Spur and $6800 for the GT Speed coupe while the lowering module is available at a price of $1395. More details after the jump!
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