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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 08:31 |
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Performance, Videos, Bentley, Luxury
How should a Bentley drive? Should the machine serenely coddle its driver and passengers in the lap of luxury, or should the Flying B hint at a sportier side? And what should it sound like - quiet and subdued or raspy yet refined?
Up until now, Bentley has... |
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011 08:30 |
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SUV, Crossover, Bentley, Luxury
Sport-utility vehicles and big engines go together like peanut butter and jelly. Surprising, then, that nobody offers one with a twelve-cylinder engine. But if the latest reports prove accurate, that's all about to change.
It's not that there's never been a... |
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Sunday, 09 October 2011 10:02 |
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Convertible, Auctions, Bentley, Specialty, Luxury
Even though "recession" and "double-dip" are familiar to anyone au courant with headlines, to the bidders at Pebble Beach auctions, the first is a lexicological sibling of "recede" and the second is dessert. That's why Gooding & Company was able... |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 16:40 |
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Convertible, Videos, Bentley, Luxury
We've gotten the details. We've seen it at the auto show. We've even driven it in Croatia, and brought you our impressions. But there's only so much we can describe a car like the new Bentley Continental GTC, because the luxury cabriolet is an experience. It's... |
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Tuesday, 04 October 2011 16:28 |
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Coupe, Performance, Bentley, Luxury
AutoExpress reports that Bentley plans to bring a GT2 version of the Continental to market next year. The word comes straight from Bentley head-honcho Wolfgang Durheimer, and while it's unclear at this point whether the machine will make use of the same W12 engine... |
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Tuesday, 04 October 2011 06:00 |
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Classics, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Volkswagen, SEAT, Skoda
You may remember the name Franz-Josef Paefgen. Until recently, the German engineer and executive was head of both Bentley and Bugatti. Before that he was chief executive of Audi, after working for... |
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Monday, 03 October 2011 16:31 |
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Sedan, China, Videos, Bentley, UK, Luxury
We've heard the accolades applied by eager salesmen to countless items: This thing you're shopping for is the Rolls-Royce of its category. It's the Mercedes-Benz of somethingorother. Usually it isn't. But if any craftsman could be called the Bentley of... |
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Friday, 30 September 2011 07:00 |
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Motorsports, Bentley, Racing
In 2001, Bentley returned to Le Mans after an absence of more than 70 years with a machine known as the Speed 8 (pictured above), eventually winning the 24-hour race in 2003. Bentley hasn't been involved in motorsports since, although a new report indicates that could... |
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:57 |
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Convertible, Bentley, First Drives, Luxury
The Fast and the Fabulous: Menace on the Mediterranean
We want a Bentley to feel both weighted down with that famous wafting substance and yet always ready to spool up fast and hard like an express train when there's an opportunity to overtake the poor. One... |
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011 09:01 |
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Bentley
You don't port over an executive from one company to another without expecting him (or her) to apply the same sort of successful formulas that brought success for his former employer to the new one. And that's certainly the case with automotive executives. Alan Mulally, for example, was... |
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