Tag: Bentley

20 OCT

Aston Martin Confirms Two Lagonda Models, Targeting Rolls-Royce and Bentley

– Nobody could accuse the modern Aston Martin company of lacking ambition. The British sports-car maker’s long history has included many fallow decades and even a period of near hibernation in the early 1990s, when total annual production dropped below 100 cars, but it is now set to open two new fronts in its search […]

28 SEP

2017 Bentley Flying Spur V8 S Tested: Heavy B

– In the rarified air above mainstream luxury-brand flagships from Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW exist the ultra-exclusive, hand-built sedans from Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, and Bentley, each offering 12-cylinder power, the choicest material furnishings, and indubitable pedigrees. Given these cars’ unapologetic price tags, a normal person might expect them to surpass any off-the-rack Audi A8, S-class […]

22 SEP

2018 Bentley Bentayga Diesel Driven!

– It hasn’t been long since the very idea of a diesel-powered Bentley SUV would have been regarded as the sort of heresy that gets angry mobs lighting up their flaming torches and heading for the creepy castle. Yet the Bentley Bentayga diesel is a thing—albeit one that will be denied to us—and after driving […]

30 AUG

2019 Bentley Continental GT gets stunning new looks but keeps its W12 engine

The Continental GT is an incredibly important model for Bentley, having kicked off the British luxury brand’s current resurgence. To wit, in 2003, the year the Continental GT was introduced, Bentley sold around a thousand vehicles. Just a decade later, Bentley was selling 10 times that many cars. You can be sure that the automaker […]

22 AUG

Rolls-Royce Is Most Mentioned Brand in Pop Songs; Bentley, Mercedes, and Cadillac All Tie with Xanax

– The business writers at Bloomberg must either be bored or listening to hip-hop while they monitor their stock terminals, else we’d never have known that rappers and pop music artists mention Rolls-Royce more often than any other car brand. (That’s rapper Fat Joe with a Wraith, above.) – That’s the result, Bloomberg reported, of […]

05 AUG

2017 Bentley Bentayga – Quick Test

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