Premium-class Bentley Mulsanne 2013

Deficit to the UK firm will introduce one of the mainstream products with new high-end features at the Geneva Motor Show before taking orders in April. Super model to the new convenience features, from the leg headrests, reaffirming the reputation of the British brand. The new upgrade includes special blinds to create privacy for the passenger compartment, allowing people to sit back comfortably to work or rest. Power window control with just one button press and anti-kidnapping. The entertainment features integrate the latest technology, such as folding table for an iPad and wireless keyboard, with cabin of Mulsanne have become a free Wi-Fi transmitter. 8-inch LCD screen, DVD player, 20 GB hard drive and Naim audio system. Some other features...

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(Un)Delete Option: Bentley Continental Supersports options list to include rear seat?

We’ve come to expect the ultimate in customization from Bentley. If you’ve got the scratch, the company will be more than happy to custom tailor its products to fit your tastes – right down to the color of your car’s seat belts. It should come as no surprise, then, that the company is now allowing potential ContinentalSupersports Coupe buyers to order their cars with a back seat.One of the coolest parts of the 612-horsepower coupe is the fact that, for its part, Bentley tried to trim the car’s fat. Weight got ditched wherever possible, including the cabin. Those hefty, infinitely adjustable, heated, cooled and massaging front buckets were swapped for lightweight carbon fiber-backed units, and the two rear seats...

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Bentley Launches Mulliner Styling Pack for Continental GT

Bentley’s new Continental GT is, without question, a coupe with imposing road presence. But the British firm wishes to offer its customers the opportunity to make their cars even more unique by launching a range of styling options named Mulliner Styling Specification Classic Pack.This styling package consists of a front splitter, strakes integrated in the front intake grilles, sideextension blades and a rear diffuser, all made from glossy black carbon-fibre.If you think these are not enough, Bentley also offers more options such as a carbon-fibre rear spoiler and mirror covers, as well as dark mesh front wing vents and black 21-inch 7-spoke alloy...

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Bentley Defies Crisis with a 20% Increase in Global Sales

Crisis? What crisis? For you and me, perhaps, but not for Bentley buyers. The VW-owned Britishluxury carmaker announced today a 20% increase in global sales for the first half of 2011 with 2,978 cars delivered to customers, the best start for the company since 2008.The luxury marque attributes this surge in sales to the high demand for the new Continental GT as well as the increasing popularity in (least we forget, communist…) China, where Bentley sales have risen by 57% compared to the same period last year, to 680 cars. Thus, it has become the manufacturer’s second best market, behind only the US (George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, anyone?).Not to be outdone by China, the capitalist...

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Bentley won’t offer diesel engines

While more and more automakers have announced plans to offer diesel engines for their models, Bentley has done the complete opposite by saying that diesel is not something they would offer in the future. Charman and CEO Franz-Josef Paefgen has said that Bentley had found diesel engines impressive, but the company is now saying that with adverse market conditions, like the ones we’re experiencing, the move to diesel is unlikely.“The forthcoming Euro 6 clean-air regs are likely to pile some big costs on to diesels,” says Bentley powertrain boss Brian Gush. And there’s a strong prejudice against them in the US and Japan, which are key markets for us. The attitude of Chinese buyers is going to have a big effect on cars like ours in future, too,...

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Bentley Arnage recalled due to rusty hood ornament

It’s not very common for Bentley to find something wrong with its cars, especially after all that fine-tooth combing and engineering. Bentley has issued a recall though for all of its Bentley Arnage range, including the Arnage T, Arnage R, Arnage RL, Arnage Final Series, Azure and Brooklands, made between October 2006 and March 2009.The recall was issued because of a corrosion issue with the ‘Flying B’ hood ornament that pokes up through the front tip of the car. Rust, of all concerns, is blamed for a possible lack of operation of the retracting Flying B mechanism which could become stuck. Doesn’t sound like much of a problem, unless you’re a pedestrian.Bentley cars are fitted with a safety device which suddenly retracts the hood ornament in...

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Bentley Continental GT gets toasted in Russia

We’ve just about had enough of burning supercars recently with all those burning Ferrari 458 Italias having traumatized us already. But unfortunately, the reality of it all is that we’re still going to see them whether we like it or not with this Bentley Continental GT serving proof that exotics aren’t exempt from freak accidents like this.In this particular case, the burning Continental GT, which happened in Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, may have come as a result of a pre-meditated attack and not some sort of accident. Details are sketchy, but from what we’ve heard, it looks like arson may have been the cause with two probably scenarios: either somebody didn’t want the car anymore – and decided to burn it – or people got upset at the owner for parking the car in three separate parking spots.Whatever...

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