All Entries Tagged With: "BENTLEY"
Bentley Wishes You A Happy Chinese New Year
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img Bentley Motors ::: Bentley Continental GT and the Chinese New Year
CHALK it up to a sign of the times. Bentley honored its Chinese patrons (the PRC is Bentley’s fastest flourishing market) with an artful display on its webpage heralding the Chinese New Year. The above image is that of a striking, signal red (rouge for prosperity) or “Dragon Red” (as Bentley’s marketed the new color) Continental GT set off by tall rims with red B-logo center caps. And as you might’ve guessed by the depiction, 2012 is the year of the dragon. Incidentally, the BBC asked a Feng Shui expert to prophesize what the significance of the dragon means for the world and the global economy. Apparently there’s to be an upturn ahead for the American market. Does this mean Bentley will have a red, white, and blue edition in time for the Fourth of July?
From One Owner With Impeccable Taste… Bentley Continental R
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 1994 Bentley Continental R
ACCORDING to the seller, Rod Stewart once owned this ’94 Bentley Continental R in “Crimson Red” over “Magnolia”. Mind you, this righteous pushrod mastodon could stand on its own to the would be collector/aficionado; such is its imperial grandeur. But the celeb history is likely an added bonus for the buyer. Brings to mind the 90s Rolls-Royce print ad: “from one owner with impeccable taste to another.”
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Go On, Party Like It’s 1999: Bentley Arnage
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 1999 Bentley Arnage Red Label
SEEMS like, well, yesterday that Bentley’s terribly grand Arnage was the über chariot of über chariots. Parading alone on the London stage (and others), Crewe’s posh tank wafted Rolls-like in splendid isolation from unseemly competition. Of course, that’s since changed.
Thank Trigger: 1987 CAR Road Comparo 560SEL v 750iL v Turbo R v Sovereign
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img (1987) CAR Magazine via Flickr ::: Road Comparison Test Issue
THUMB through the pictoral mountain that is Flickr and you’ll find an account called “Trigger’s Vintage Road Tests!” It’s awesome. For one thing, “Trigger” posted a 1987 comparison issue from CAR that compared a quartet of 80s luxury rock stars – the BMW 750iL, Bentley Turbo R, Jaguar Sovereign, and Mercedes-Benz 560SEL. Girly squeal! He’s done us auto aficionados a great service. Here’s why:
Bentley T2 Video With James May
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: YouTube ::: James May’s old Bentley T2
WOW. James May had ears. Anyway, here’s an oldy and goody; where the then fresh Top Gear star introduced us to his cap’n slow style and his very own “Bentley for Mondeo money” – a T2. Fancy that. We’ve already talked about the T2. And here it is popping up again.
Cue the theme to It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia in three, two…
1978 Bentley T2
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 1978 Bentley T2 For Sale
SISTER to the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II and second to nothing, save, perhaps a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 or 600, you could hardly do better in 1978 than own a Mason’s Black over House-of-Lords Red Bentley T2. Rare: only 568 T2′s were commissioned. Rarer still is this particular Bentley’s form. Thanks to a recent restoration, the black finish looks so fine it seems liquid. As it should. It’s a Bentley.
[eBay]
Plum Choice on Hemmings: 1958 Bentley S1
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via Hemmings ::: 1958 Bentley S1 for sale
HAVING undergone a thorough restoration to the tune of $100,000, this Bentley S1 – the driver’s Rolls-Royce – represents a plum find for the seller’s asking price ($57K o.b.o.). That having been said wouldn’t you just rather have a Cloud and be done with it?
eBay Watch: I See Fields of Brooklands
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 2009 Bentley Brooklands for sale
BENTLEY ST LOUIS wanted to catch your eye with this lovely ’09 limited edition Brooklands coupé. And there was clear thought in just how to showcase this big beauty apart from the rest of the chafe that’s listed on eBay. The solution? How about driving the Brooklands onto a patch of green grass as if it were at concours or a picnic hosted by the regional RROC? Fine idea…yet… the cynic in me hates to see any car parked on grass for any reason. Let alone a limited edition Bentley. OCD? Perhaps. Then again grass stains on a beluga over beluga Bentley would really bite.
[eBay]
eBay Watch! 2010 Bentley Azure T
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 2010 Bentley Azure T
TRIMMED in “Ghost White Pearlescent,” no less. We have a firm belief that in the realm of contemporary autos, the only chariot more deliciously decadent than the original Bentley Azure convertible is the latest – and it would seem greatest – generation Bentley Azure convertible. And it seems serendipitous that the Naples Bentley dealer elected to post pics of the Bentley Azure T squarely in front of an imposing Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé to compare like rivals.
In a beauty contest entre les deux, there simply isn’t any. [eBay]
