<![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands - Jalopnik Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands - Jalopnik Comments]]> http://jalopnik.com Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:26:22 EST Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:26:22 EST http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c4156345 Not only is the grille real mesh, the wheels are hand-hewn from solid billets of aluminum by old-fashioned British craftsmen with nothing but a wooden mallet, a cold chisel and a stiff upper lip.

Armand, Star-Spangled Pedant

]]> 12:241820:c4156345 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:26:22 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c4155870 @wohho:
Yes, yes!!! Exactly what I was thinking, the Continental GT just never felt like a proper Bentley to me.


tekdemon

]]> 12:241820:c4155870 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:02:54 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1058307 This is the real deal. The grille is fabricated from only the best of mesh, imported from the most scenic ore-producing countries.

Mike Spinelli

]]> 12:241820:c1058307 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:26:25 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1057869 For this? I thought saying the 07 Monte Carlo was an ok car was gonna do it. lol

danio3834

]]> 12:241820:c1057869 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:27:34 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1057860 Danio... did you SEE the Chrysler Imperial Concept?

Such sacrilege puts you are risk for the commenter execution gallows.

Ben Wojdyla

]]> 12:241820:c1057860 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:26:14 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1057450 That hood's long enough for a straight-8. I'm not getting one unless it has a straight-8.

FreeMan

]]> 12:241820:c1057450 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:32:05 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1057303 Chrysler Imperial concept and this car were separated at birth.

danio3834

]]> 12:241820:c1057303 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:08:33 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1056484 @scotte: This car has a third pedal, but unfortunately it's the parking brake, otherwise that pedal would be very effective in keeping Paris away.

no_slushbox

]]> 12:241820:c1056484 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:58:22 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1056372 May Paris Hilton be kept at least four time zones away from any of these!

scotte

]]> 12:241820:c1056372 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:35:11 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1056312 If the grille isn't perpendicular to the ground, it doesn't deserve the badge.

Geneva attending Jalopniks: Is the grille plastic like the GT or did they spring for real wire mesh on this one?

no_slushbox

]]> 12:241820:c1056312 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:23:48 EST <![CDATA[Geneva Showcase: Bentley Brooklands]]> http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/geneva-showcase-bentley-brooklands-241820.php#c1056113 Now THAT'S what a Bentley two door is supposed to look like. Not this hobo swill they call the Continental GT.

A true successor to the velvet beast that was the 2002 Continental T Red Badge.

wohho

]]> 12:241820:c1056113 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:55:42 EST