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    Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser

    Bentley Azure T: More Sensuously Senseless Luxury Coming To LA

    2009 Bentley Continental Flying Spur Gets Facelift, "Speed" And Presumably E! Special
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    And to maintain parity with Rolls Royce, the hood ornament doubles as a purse holder...
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    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    Leave the Roller's 6 and three-quarters be.


    Bring back the 14-pint six-in-a-row: [www.jaylenosgarage.com]

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    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    What they're not telling you is that the picture is just a macro of the new Bentley's exceptionally aerodynamically-sculpted wheel weights.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    I look at that teaser shot, and my mind fills it in thus:



    A guy can dream, right?
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    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    Old money prevails!
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    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    The Empire strikes back?
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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    06/10/09

    @cmdrfire: No, that's India with buying Jaguar.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    I hope the new Bentley continues in the same vein as the last model. I'm holding my breath because the new Phaeton is going to be great!


    In a total inversion since the selloff, Bentley totally waxed Rolls Royce in sales, and did it with a car that didn't look like an embarrassing cartoon. Good enough for Chrysler to crib from for its 300, and giving Mercedes a much needed rest in the plagiarism department.


    Pebble in August, you say? Now, where did I put my top hat?

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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/10/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: It looks exactly like the Arnage in this angle. They've said it would take design elements from the Queen's State Limousine.
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    Image of Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    I actually cant stand Bentleys or R.R's. Never get the concept of having so much power and so much grace, but yet never use it.


    Then again..
    THIS is a society where everybody has the ability in their vehicles to do amazing things and go places that vehicles are designed for..


    Yet they just sit at the market next to every other vehicle.


    Cue the Anti-SUV comments.
    The Dousche Ferrari comments..

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    Image of PetroSapien PetroSapien
    06/10/09

    @suidroccA suidellik suibilaM: You have to think of R.R.s and (less so) Bentley's as cars built in the Theodore Roosavelt theory of "speak softly and carry a big stick." Driving a Rolls portrays the same image in spirit to other drivers as steaming a fleet of Battleships into Tokyo Bay.


    //speaking from historical reference, not political.

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    Image of Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
    06/10/09

    @PetroSapien:


    With all due respect..
    Im sure that was fine and good then.. when Maybach had a purpose.


    But recently, past 5-10yrs.


    I cant even stand to be in traffic with them. I find them slow, large pointless. And the driver.. is as inept as his fellow SUV / CUV drivers.


    The same crowd who buys them.. probably gets them on lease and trades them before an oil change is done. They also flock to Rovers and Cayanee's / Q7s.


    In the end..
    Im a driver.
    I put my car to the very limit of how it was designed.
    Im not interested in some yahoo who takes corners in a 6000lb sedan at 20mph.


    These yachts should be restricted to the southern tip of Florida (Miami) and L.A where people have nothing else better to do than gab on the phone and try and pilot their car through traffic. The same with those in Dubai, nothing else better to do than throw away cash on a vehicle that they have no concept.


    As for as the picture goes asthetically..
    I love the black shadows, and the polished to a granite touch. But I wouldnt want one around for weddings or funerals.

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    Image of .357 .357
    06/10/09

    @suidroccA suidellik suibilaM: Bentleys and Rolls-Royces have no purpose, which is why I love them. Sort of hard to understand. It's about more than just the car itself.
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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    Glad to see the continued survival of that most endangered of species, the hood ornament.
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    06/10/09

    @Gearhead_42: For a moment, I thought this was a contender for all-time best hood ornament, because I thought it was a miniature sculpture of people getting it on.
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    06/10/09

    In reply to Grand Bentley Previewed With Exceptionally Dark Teaser
    I love Bentleys. This car better be great. Nothing less than what we have come to expect from Rolls Royce's sport division. I expect it to be powered by brimstone, fire, and a hell of a lot of fuel. I expect it to weigh as much as a tectonic plate, but move as quickly as any poseur-ish Ferrari. I expect this to be a dose of Olde England. Because that's what we need right now.
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    Image of Armando Aj Marini Armando Aj Marini
    06/10/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer:


    I think you may have missed the news a few years back...Bentley is in the VW fold now. They are no longer the "Rolls Royce's sports division" Rolls has different german owners (BMW)

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    06/10/09

    @Armando Aj Marini: Hey, is your name really Marini?
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    06/10/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: by brimstone and fire, you mean diesel and hybrids, right? Personally, I could give a damn if it was powered by leprechauns, as long as it was a big naturally aspirated big lock of Autobahn tuned, steroid-injected, highly refined, gold plated leprechauns purchasing at least 4000 llp (Leprechaun Leg Powers(Trademark pending), 1 hp-8 llp).


    So, I really don't cars, just make it big, fast, and hewn from granite.

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    06/10/09

    @Baron Schm Von Shamwoüzen und taxis: lock=block


    And, for reference. . .


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    06/10/09

    @Armando Aj Marini: Do you always take things seriously?
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    11/12/08

    In reply to Bentley Azure T: More Sensuously Senseless Luxury Coming To LA
    Thank god for Bentley. My current mode of transportation is entirely lacking in the knurling department, so I may have to get me one of these.


    I don't think anyone managed to read the whole press release, but apparently the Flying B logo was developed by a "motoring artist", rather than a lowly designer. Heh.

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    11/12/08

    In reply to Bentley Azure T: More Sensuously Senseless Luxury Coming To LA
    It surely does look better than the Sebring and it even costs less than Chrysler.
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    11/12/08

    @sos10: Sorry, I just checked.. it is cheaper to buy Chrysler.
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    11/12/08

    In reply to Bentley Azure T: More Sensuously Senseless Luxury Coming To LA
    Another car for the Simon Cowell collection.
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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    11/12/08

    @layabout: Or Jay Leno.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    11/12/08

    @timtoolman: or ralph lauren.
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    11/12/08

    In reply to Bentley Azure T: More Sensuously Senseless Luxury Coming To LA
    When your potential target market consists not of demographic stats, but of specific names of people, you may have gone too far.


    That interior stitching is like a Waffle House edition. Scatter, smother, cover, dice, chunk, cap, and top the competition.

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    11/12/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares:


    It does have a "rich Corinthian leather" look to it.

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    Image of RoninianHoon RoninianHoon
    11/12/08

    In reply to Bentley Azure T: More Sensuously Senseless Luxury Coming To LA
    So how much will it cost me if I accidentally left the top down during a storm?
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    11/12/08

    @RoninianHoon: Don't know,but it'll be coming out of the Butler's wages & he won't make that mistake again!
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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    11/12/08

    @RoninianHoon: Funny story. I attend a regular event at a conference center that shares its grounds with a prestigous golf course. Well, as I'm leaving one day it starts to pour. The type of rain that soaks you with even the shortest exposure. Here I am driving past the clubhouse, trying to find my way through the thick rain when what do I spot? A Bentley Convertible with its top down taking on water faster than the titanic. Moments later a golf cart comes sliding sideways and the passenger jumps off. I can only assume the owner was enjoying the 7th hole when he realized what was happening to his pride and joy. I'm sure it turned into a painful cleaning bill. Several weeks later it was parked back at the clubhouse... Top up.
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    11/12/08

    @Miscellanea: for that kinda money I'd hope it would hold water and shoot bubbles like a hot tub.
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