This is the End - Bentley launches a Diesel Estate

[Jim Bell]

 

They've rebadged it you fool.

[Junkman]

It's pretty minging but it's designed for the Wilmslow and Kensington markets, I guess.

 

EFA

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

It's an obscene, disgusting vehicle for obscene, disgusting people. Nobody with any social awareness of conscience would be seen dead in it. Range Rovers are bad enough these days. The Bentley heap will end up being driven by some tattooed Moron from Mansfield when it's 12 years old and £14'995.

 

Given all the money in the world or a huge lottery win, I still don't see the point in buying anything bigger or more expensive than a 60 grand 7 Series or S Class.

[Junkman]

Given all the money in the world or a huge lottery win, I still don't see the point in buying anything bigger or more expensive than a 60 grand Iso Fidia with a terminally gopping interior, or a shonky Facel Vega.

 

EFA

[Dead_E23]

On my way to the pub last night, I noticed one of these unlovely things had appeared in the local Bentley showroom:

 

 

Believe me, the pictures flatter it - in the metal, they are an absolutely gopping muddle.  

 

[Felly Magic]

Bloody hell fire, I just want to vomit at the site of it. Xtriple's car IS a proper Bentley, this is just a Toerag for those with even more money than functioning braincells. Someone nuke Wolfsburg before it's too late

[chaseracer]

Holy feck, that's horrible.

 

Especially impressive how they've managed to mismatch the paint on the grille surround.  That may be the lighting, but I don't care - it looks bub-spec*.

 

 

* ie. has had a frontal impact... 

[HH-R]

LED lights don't look good on ANYTHING. Why do manufacturers persist with them? Mind, that's the least of the gopping Bentley's issues.

[scruff]

If it comes with a 4.302 I'm in.

 

Eagle 290L please (for teh economy)

[Felly Magic]

Nah a nice Perkins V8 from an old Dennis fire engine....

[forddeliveryboy]

If you baulk at 15-20mpg, you CANNOT afford a Bentley. The whole concept of buying a diesel is to save money. Fitting it to a Bentley is akin to buying a Stately Home then getting an Economy 7 meter as you are struggling with the heating bills.

 

Thing is, after years of tight rich-as-Croesus-types running on E7 but hating the cost of hiding the heaters, they've struck the jackpot with the RHI which allows them to profit more and more highly, according to how much fuel they use. They're buying up EVs fast, too - £5000 donation on purchase from the rest of us, virtually tax-free fuel for life.

 

 

Somehow I don't think it's the landed British gentry who'll be riding round in these (old Volvo for posh, MGF for the spogs/wifelets and battered pickup/ZX/406), more the footballwives, Americans who buy a big house here and the Chinese - probably the market it has been designed for.

[2MB]

Look out for the wheels on slammed Passats in your area soon

[Squire_Dawson]

One day recently out walking on a narrow country lane, a 1970s Rolls Royce came towards me, in lovely condition, in a sober avocado colour. Riding inside were 4 middle-aged gentlemen dressed in tweed, on their way to the golf club. As I stood in to give way, this car went gently past and the driver waved a thank-you to me. I went on my way with a smile on my face - here was a facet of Britain not often seen today - the real Upper Classes wafting around in conservative, understated elegance, superfluous quality, yet acknowledging me, a commoner. Oddly enough, the designer clothes wearing, designer tatoo'd lovely people in their SUV's don't even seem to know that you exist when you stand in to allow them by.

 

I believe I saw one of these 'Bentley' monstrosities recently on a motorway, before it was launched. I was passing it and said 'that damn thing shouldn't be on the road - look at it' - it was, no word of a lie, taped up with black plastic and had bin liners over the rear lights, things looked ready to fall off onto the carriageway. Must've been some kind of 'disguise'. Anyway, it won't get them out of a traffic jam any sooner.

[xtriple]

They are not Bentleys anymore. They are just generic VAG products with a posh badge. I HATE VAG!

 

I do not like the fact that Rolls Royce and Bentley are both owned by anything other than the British, they are THE British brands ffs! However, I do believe that BMW have made a decent job of keeping Rolls Royce like a proper Rolls Royce - the Phantom is a cracking car and just seems to be everything an RR should be.

 

All the VAG product Bentleys just seem wrong to me and miss the point by a mile.

 

Sad.

[bub2006]

It's an obscene, disgusting vehicle for obscene, disgusting people. Nobody with any social awareness of conscience would be seen dead in it. Range Rovers are bad enough these days. The Bentley heap will end up being driven by some tattooed Moron from Mansfield when it's 12 years old and £14'995.

 

Given all the money in the world or a huge lottery win, I still don't see the point in buying anything bigger or more expensive than a 60 grand 7 Series or S Class.

I'm from near Mansfield and have tattoos as well as being a probable moron but I wouldn't touch one!

[dollywobbler]

I think that's a good point about VW and BMW. The latter had certainly done a better job when it comes to style. From the moment the Continental GT was launched, Bentleys have been nothing but awful.

Incidental, the off roader thing will be British-built, but the bodyshell will be pressed out in Bulgaria or somewhere like that. They did want to build the whole car overseas. Idiots.

[Mr A Lawrence]

They are not Bentleys anymore. They are just generic VAG products with a posh badge. I HATE VAG!

 

I do not like the fact that Rolls Royce and Bentley are both owned by anything other than the British, they are THE British brands ffs! However, I do believe that BMW have made a decent job of keeping Rolls Royce like a proper Rolls Royce - the Phantom is a cracking car and just seems to be everything an RR should be.

 

All the VAG product Bentleys just seem wrong to me and miss the point by a mile.

 

Sad.

I'm quite partial to a bit of VAG myself.

[Junkman]

I'm not sure whether I can share the enthusiasm about new Rolls Royces.

I find they look like Hyundai Grandeurs that spent too much time in Fukushima.

[rml2345]

On the whole, BMW have managed to understand what makes a Rolls-Royce special and interpret it in a modern car with a damn sight more success than any of the other high end brands. It could even be argued that they've made a better job of it than the last few efforts from Crewe.

VW on the other hand haven't got a clue and that monstrosity just proves it. If anything it looks even worse in the dealers, so will be a guaranteed sales success for the successful 30-something footballer who's having to chop the Continental in for a tank to escort little Raphael and Pimlico to their child rearer.

[Asimo]

Hammer a Hummer over it.

[brownnova]

It's a VAG in drag, and its worse than many of the drag artists doing the rounds in the pubs in places like Wrexham or Birkenhead!

 

But the magpie-esqe footballers will just see shiny things and crowd round them quicker than 1970s radio DJs round an unattended child

[Pillock]

 

 

The Bentley heap will end up being driven by some tattooed Moron from Mansfield when it's 12 years old and £14'995.

 

Oi!

 

I'm a tattooed moron from Mansfield and I would NOT waste fifteen large on that at any age.

 

£150 if I found it as a Cat C up Charles Trent maybe.....

[chaseracer]

Hammer a Hummer over it.

 

I think they already did.

[willswitchengage]

The inter-net says it's not actually related to the Touran, instead sharing the Touareg/Cayenne platform, and there is no word of a diesel option...

 

I imagine this is targeted at markets that don't use diesel; i.e. not Europe.

[martc]

I bet it's emissions are fantastically low.

 

(I use the word "fantastically" in it's proper sense)

 

I typed this sarcy comment whilst willswitchengage added his/her post pointing out the lack of a diesel option. Sorry.

Edited October 18, 2015 by martc

[Junkman]

The inter-net says it's not actually related to the Touran, instead sharing the Touareg/Cayenne platform,

What's the bloody difference?

 

and there is no word of a diesel option...

For the initial run. The press release clearly states the diesel versions will follow.

[willswitchengage]

Lots.

 

VW says lots of things. "Our cars meet the latest EPA emission standards" is a popular recent one.

[Lacquer Peel]

It will sell, and Bentley's revenue and profits will continue to grow as long as extremely rich and tasteless people are allowed to hoard their ill gotten gains.

 

[Pillock]

The inter-net says it's not actually related to the Touran, instead sharing the Touareg/Cayenne platform, and there is no word of a diesel option...

 

I imagine this is targeted at markets that don't use diesel; i.e. not Europe.

It wouldn't be related to the Touran, we have a Touran and it's just a seven seater Golf on the Golf platform.

Even VAG can't platform-share enough that Bentley will use a Golf floor...... Can they?

[Felly Magic]

VW do need something to sell at a stupid price, so they can pay for the fines they are going to get. I suspect it shares the main bodyshell with the Toerag/Cayenne, and the oily bits too