Bentley chose to sit out the 2017 Dubai International Motor Show and used their Dubai showroom to announce that they will be building only 19 examples of the Mulsanne-based Grand Convertible.
The all-new Bentley Continental GT has been teasing us for a while now by making numerous partially camouflaged appearances around the world. But now Bentley has uncovered it fully. The all-new 2018 Bentley Continental GT has shown its face, ahead of its launch at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show.
As per their own words, Bentley has created the “ultimate accessory for the falconry enthusiast”, with the new Bentayga Falconry by Mulliner.
We’ve been following the development of the Bentley Bentayga quite closely. We saw it up close in concept form, with that much-derided front-end. We saw it in its world debut at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, where we saw its famous Breitling dash-clock option that costs as much as the car. We even saw it in Dubai at the 2015 Dubai Motor Show where we interviewed one of the designers. Unfortunately we never got a chance to get behind the wheel since it hit the roads in 2016, but we were finally given this blue one to try out for a couple of days.
With an all new model right around the corner, Bentley has given the Continental GT a proper sent off with a completely new variant. This final version of the Continental is named the Supersports and it is the fastest 4-seater car available in the market right now. Bentley is also offering a droptop version.
With the Takata airbag fever starting to subside, the number of recalls has decreased slightly. There hasn’t been a ton of recalls in the past month, but here is the list of the ones that did happen in November 2016.
Bentley has revealed the 2017 Mulsanne facelift model, along with the addition of a new extended-wheelbase variant. It is set to debut at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.
Offering a peek into the latest addition to the Flying Spur lineup is Bentley, with their new V8 S version. Slated to bridge the gap between the V8 and the top-of-the-range W12, the car is set to debut at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show next month.
The other day we were reminiscing about the first time we drove the Bentley Continental GT. It was the Speed variant, and the year was 2008. The GT had already been around for four years at that point, and the Speed was recently launched as a flagship model to keep the line fresh. We took it straight to Jebel Hafeet for our first ever run on that mountain, close to midnight, and it proved to be an amazing car.
The Bentley Bentayga is the British uber-luxury carmaker’s first official 4×4, and when it was unveiled, reactions were mixed at best, if only because of its exterior styling. One thing is for sure though — it’s going to sell well, and it is likely to become the brand’s most popular model, if Porsche’s history tells us anything. Bentley also claims that the Bentayga will be the world’s fastest SUV, although we found a single item on the options list to be more fascinating than that — the optional Breitling clock on the dash costs almost as much as the base Bentayga.