Bentley SUV
Bentley the World’s most luxurious SUV ?
Bentley Motors is the maker of powerful, luxurious, grand touring motor cars, does a SUV fit in the Bentley’s model lineup?
Now that the luxury SUV market does not show any signs of slowing down but rather keeps going, is Bentley intention to develop a genuine production 4×4 SUV as a part of a plan by Bentley’s parent company, VW to expand the marque into new areas?
With a luxurious SUV, Bentley will seduced a new class of clients or set to rival the Porsche Cayenne, VW Touareg, Cadillac Escalade, Audi Q7 and Lincoln Navigator.
Being part of the VW group Bentley has access to Audi’s Q7 platform, as well as the Porsche engineered VW Touareg /Porsche Cayenne, a Bentley SUV would be then the fourth model to be built around the same platform and technique, and it wouldn’t be the first SUV produced be Bentley, the first steps into the SUV market were already made by Bentley years ago with the concept known as Dominator that was based around a Range Rover and used the same engine, commissioned in 1994 by the Sultan of Brunei.
Bentley SUV could be powered by a 6.0 litre Twin Turbo W12 engine from the Bentley Continental GT delivering 560 HP or a more conservative 6.75-litre V8 with 475 bhp alike to the one in the Arnage.