New Bentley Flying Spur Tears It up in Teaser Photo
Bentley is to reveal a new Flying Spur on September 10 and it’ll be the most powerful sedan in the firm’s 105-year history.
Describing it as a “four-door supercar” Bentley has confirmed that the Flying Spur will receive the same 782-hp Ultra Performance Hybrid powertrain as the new Continental GT Speed.
Replacing the now-departed W-12 is a four-liter turbo V-8 that delivers 599 hp and joins forces with an electric motor to provide Bentley’s biggest punch ever. There’s also a combined 737 lb-ft of torque when ICE and electricity work together. In the Continental GT that makes for a 0-62 mph sprint of 3.3 seconds and a vMax of 208 mph. In the bigger, heavier Flying Spur you can expect to loose a few tenths, but it should still top out beyond 200 mph.
As it’s a plug-in hybrid with a 29.5 kWh battery pack the Flying Spur will be able to travel over 45 miles on electric alone, while carbon dioxide emissions are below 40 g/km.
Bentley is keeping mum about the rest of the car’s specification, but we’d be very surprised if it didn’t also benefit from the ZF dual-valve damping, 48-volt anti-roll system, torque vectoring, e-diff and four-wheel steering that have made the Continental GT quite alarmingly agile.
“Its certainly entertaining—all the way to the lockstops if you turn everything off,” concluded Hagerty’s Henry Catchpole.
Bentley will drop a video next week showcasing “the car’s newly-expanded dynamic capabilities—at the hands of racing stars old and new.” Should be worth a watch.
So, the first three articles of today’s Hagerty Media feature cars unaffordable by 99.8% of Earth’s population.
This is a trend that’s been remarked upon of late.
When I first was involved with collector cars, there was a paper called “Old Cars Weekly”.
It was relatable and relevant to nearly all of us.
OK, so Hagerty wants to keep us abreast of developments across all automobilia… News.
Yet, how many of these “news cars” will be INSURED by Hagerty, or even connected?
See what I’m saying?
Brand-new exotics aren’t Hagerty’s bread-and-butter business – we more regular folks are.
I don’t see the point of a plug in hybrid bentley, might as well go all in and ev it.
And that would eliminate a large pool of potential buyers – buyers who are not ready for a full-EV, and may never be.
Looks pretty good, if a BIT reminiscent of the recently-ended Lincoln Continental. Not that this is a bad thing…