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Skijoring is a winter sport that involves being dragged around by a horse or a dog on skis. It's also something we have almost no interest in, that is at least until you replace the horse or dog with a 570 horsepower Bentley Continental GT. More »
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In Russia it seems like your expensive car may never truly be safe from vandals. This Bentley Continental GT received the spray can customization seen here during the day while parked in front of an insurance office. More »
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The 2012 Bentley Continental GT V8 offers a moral hazard for foolish plutocrats—and not just by dint existing in the first place. Nope, it's the new twin-turbo V8 engine (which lives a less glamorous life in an Audi S8) that's a puzzle box for the moneyed ego: Do you buy the W-12 version, with slightly higher horsepower but lesser gas mileage and greater weight; or do you do the smart thing and get the wildly more fuel-efficient V8 engine despite its smaller displacement and mathematically indisputable fewer cylinders under its wide, leonine nose? More »
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We asked you, our poor masses, for your best take on Bentley's custom door sill generator. You responded in the refined style befitting bespoke British motorcraft. Here are the best smartass responses: More »
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Online configurators can not only be great timewasters, but give us a glimpse of how desperate a brand can be for its customers. Why else would Bentley let you stamp obscenities on the door sill of a Mulsanne? More »
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Now here's a bit of unexpected test-car porn. Quattro World readers caught an apparent Audi RS7 test vehicle in Las Vegas, clad in stealthy matte black and powered by the same 4.0-liter TFSI V8 as the new Bentley Continental GT. More »
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Suck it, Dubai. London's Canary Wharf sees your abandoned luxury cars epidemic, and raises you a Bentley. According to Jalop LordDetroitofLondon, this is the second abandoned luxocar in a month raised from the apartment complex's underground lot. The first was an Aston Vantage. More »
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Toiling away will never be like flogging a classic GT at 11/10ths, but a line of seats inspired by classic sports cars' butt-buckets may make doing that presentation just a bit less sucky. More »
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Only in Monaco would you find a Bentley Azure T that's managed to plow into a Ferrari F430, damaging an Aston Martin Rapide, a Porsche 911 Carrera S and a Mercedes S-Class in the process. Monaco's body shops must make their casinos look like convents. Cela va droit à buff! More »
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Fugitive car thief 22-year-old Justin Durbin's been conning his way from Mercedes to Mercedes in a string of clever heists that ended with his arrest in a stolen Bentley in Lake Charles, La. All without breaking a window or picking a lock. More »
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The streets of New Delhi, India, have more than their share of traffic from vehicles of all kinds. New to the list: more than 40 Porsches, Aston Martins and other luxury cars abandoned by owners worried about tax evasion charges. More »
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If you can't make the Paris showing of 17 classic vehicles from designer Ralph Lauren's collection for the typical reasons — busy summer polo schedule, breaking in a new yacht captain, etc., etc. — you can at least hear them. More »
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A wedding in Wenzhou, China, last Thursday included a traffic-clogging procession of 28 exotics vehicles, including several Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys. In a country where the rich are still nouveau, the display has sparked a backlash. More »
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Bentley hasn't confirmed it, but a return of the Bentley Turbo R could be two years away. The Mulsanne-based coupe would get a 600-hp version of the top Bentley's 6.75-liter V8. That, and about an acre of polished Burr oak. More »
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In two weeks the U.S. Treasury will auction 11 supercars valued at nearly $3 million, including a Ferrari Enzo. If you ever bought a piece of electronics at Best Buy that didn't work, here's where your cash may have gone. More »
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What happens when technology meets enthusiasts' basement carbuilding? You get stuff like this Bentley Speed 8 replica, which a mad Swedish genius has been scheming, programming and constructing under cover of a Northern European winter. Now it's in the daylight. More »
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It's a British-built Bentley Arnage T with the rear axle off an Escalade done up in California woody style for sale in Italy. This, friends, is why globalism is a good thing. (H/T to Jagvar!) More »
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No doubt the Bentley twin-turbo W12 is a torque monster. Add all-wheel drive and you've got the perfect stump puller, especially if your stump happens to be a Sprinter van that's stuck in the snow. Extra credit for cable attachment. More »
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While test driving a $250,000 Bentley Continental GTC Speed, magazine editor Kate Winick crashed the car after swerving to avoid a UPS truck. More »
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This Vintage Bentley 8-litre chassis is outdone by its engine: a 42-liter Packard V12 from a WWII torpedo boat. It produces a Veyron-shaming 1,500-hp at 2,400 RPM, tops out at 160 mph, and goes by the name Mavis. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5715389&view=rss&microfeed=true Wolfgang Dürheimer will succeed the equally Germanic-sounding Franz-Josef Paefgen as Chairman and CEO of Bentley in February. [WSJ] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5701290&view=rss&microfeed=true Aww jeez, now Lamborghini, Audi, and Bentley are getting a Panamera too? What, VW's too good for that ass? [GTSpirit] More »
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Walter Allan Jr. arrived at a Houston exotic car dealer Friday ready to buy two Bentleys with a $500,000 check. He even brought his own notary public to ensure the transaction went as smooth as alcantara. It didn't. More »
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Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose owes Bentley Financial thousands for abusing a Continental Flying Spur like it was an Iggy Pop song. Transgressions include exceeding the mileage limit by 43K gouging the bumper, and not paying $74K. [TMZ] More »
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One of the things you’ll learn from the Rolling Stones guitarist’s new autobiography is that Blue Lena, his 1-of-86 Bentley S3 Continental Flying Spur, was rather well-equipped for proper rock and roll decadence. [The Guardian] More »
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Bentley's issued a recall on certain models because, if corroded, the large "Flying B" hood ornament might not retract in a pedestrian accident. Seriously? The hood ornament?! [Bloomberg] More »
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Bentley's taking 1,000 heritage parts on a roadshow across the Colonies to remind owners they've got a warehouse full of replacement parts for their vintage cars as round and extravagant as Kelly Brook's bottom. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5640106&view=rss&microfeed=true For all you engineering-obsessive nerds out there, here's how Bentley's making cheaper, stronger carbon fiber parts. [Wards] More »
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The Royal College Of Art's Vehicle Design Degree show this year included this take by Bora Kim on a 2035 model year electric-powered Bentley, nicknamed "Jekyll and Hyde" Other ideas: snap-together coupes and driverless models. (H/T to Andrew!) [RCA/Wallpaper] More »
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The 2011 Bentley Continental GT now offers a eco- and poorer-person friendly 4.0-liter V8 as an option. The rest of us will order a 567-hp, 516 lb-ft 6.0-liter twin-turbo W12. Now to paint it pink and cover it with rhinestones. More »
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Architect Steve Hermann calls his "Glass Pavilion" home in Montecito, California his opus. The nearly-impossible looking cantilevered structure is mostly open air, but the basement "art gallery" is walnut columns and vintage cars. Ferrari Dino? Mercedes 300SL? Excellent taste, sir. More »
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Dartz calls it their newest opulence the Continental GT SS, not for "Super Sport," but for "snake skin." That's because the car's ensconced in an all-white faux snake skin vinyl wrap. Because nothin' says classy like vinyl snake skin. More »
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While reading the story of the man responsible for the Blower Bentley, I stumbled across a passage recounting the use of one of the surviving cars for towing test-bed "flying Jeeps" aloft during World War II. Flying Jeeps? More »
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The Bentley Mulsanne is one of the costliest Bentleys you can buy, a fast, refined car offering heritage and breeding in spades. Ordinary people are not supposed to be able to relate. We are ordinary. Is this worth $285,000? More »
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A hailstorm knocked down a tree today at the Midwestern Automotive Media Association (Midwestern NAMBLA) annual pump n' dump for morbidly obese auto journalists at Road America, damaging an Aston Martin Rapide and Bentley Continental Super Sport. More »
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The modern high-performance car is an amazing beast, a fast, comfortable way to cover great distances at high speed. Most of them are also remarkably safe — these accidents, courtesy of Wrecked Exotics, left their drivers all but unharmed. More »
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When the Bentley Mulsanne debuted we were taken aback by its shocking visage. After seeing it in the flesh the car's actually quite handsome. Here it's handsomely driven by a handsomely dressed and handsomely paid actor through handsome Scotland. More »
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Bentley's 6¾ liter, twin-turbocharged V8 engine has been completely re-engineered for the upcoming $285,000 Mulsanne and is even built by hand at the luxury brand's Crewe, UK plant. Here's how. More »
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