Bentley to launch £1,000 limited edition of new James Bond book, Carte Blanche
Bentley has created a limited edition of the forthcoming James Bond book, Carte Blanche (for the regular hardback edition, US$15·49 at Amazon; £9·99 at Amazon UK), by Jeffery Deaver, to be released on May 26. It continues a long tie-up between Ian Fleming’s literary super-spy and the Bentley car brand. Bond owned three Bentleys […]
Bentley builds 50 limited-edition Flying Spurs for Middle East
If a regular Bentley Continental Flying Spur is not enough, then the Crewe company can offer Middle Eastern customers a special edition, called the Arabia. We imagine that customers in the Middle East might want even more appointments that are on offer: ‘subtle exterior and interior “Arabia” motifs. These include an exterior front fender […]
Bentley shows painstaking body assembly process
Bentley has released video of the building of a body-in-white of its new Mulsanne saloon at its factory in Crewe, Cheshire. The flagship model is made from high-strength steel and aluminium, and assembled using a combination of traditional British craftsmanship and robotic tools. The body alone takes 125 man-hours to create, according to Bentley, […]
Bentley lends its name to skis
Bentley has extended its brand again, this time to hand-made skis from Switzerland. The skis, poles and ski bag have been created by Zai with input from Bentley’s Styling Studio. The Zai skis are made in a limited edition of 250 numbered pairs, and début a new type of carbonfibre dubbed Zaiìra. The […]
Derek Bell takes the Bentley Continental Supersports around the Nürburgring
Racing driver, Derek Bell, MBE, has been taking the new Bentley Continental Supersports for a spin. Except when you are a legend like Bell, that ‘spin’ would, necessarily, have to be at the Nürburgring, over 12 miles. The car will do 329 km/h (204 mph) and can run on E85 biofuel, part of a commitment […]
Opel Astra to Bentley Mulsanne: new metal at the IAA
Ferrari wasn’t the only one making a big splash at IAA, the Frankfurt Motor Show. BMW officially premièred its X1 (which had already appeared in German TV show Alarm für Cobra 11 two weeks before) and its 5er Gran Turismo—a hatchback version of the 5, if we had to be crude—with chairman of the board […]
