Bentley Motors Wants Apprentices
One of the few car manufacturers have been crafting cars mostly by hand, is a Bentley Motors holds open house on Saturday 19 Students March 9-1 hour at HQ at Bentley Pym’s Lane in Crewe, England.
Twenty positions are open in craftsmanship, technology, engineering, Junior Engineer, trade and economy. Approved the program in two, three or four years of training, depending on the subject. From September, the courses run in collaboration with local universities to ensure that all loans to be included, and yes, exchange students welcome.
Current students will be on hand to get an idea of how the program give to potential applicants. You have to show a film, what they do and how life works produced at one of the world’s largest car manufacturer.
According to Christine Gaskell, Bentley board staff: “Our training is recognized as one of the best at the national level and we are enthusiastic students to enjoy a challenge and take this opportunity to seek to show their potential.”
In addition to the placement of open house, participants will have the opportunity, the Bentley design studio called View of the exhibition “solid line”. Besides the studios, the cars will be of the past 90 years the production of Bentley’s history. Read more…
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Bentley Continental Supersports is a whiter lighter shade of pale awesome
In the superluxe world, we’re used to this maneuver: add a few horsepower, shave a tenth or two, sew in a few extra threads, name your exclusive new interior color something like “Algerian Beet” and voilà, a 50-percent price premium for three-percent more car. On the surface, the Bentley Continental Supersports is a GTC Speed that has gone on The Biggest Loser, Extreme Makeover, and Alter Eco. But you know what they say about the proof and the pudding, so the question is whether the Supersports is a nameplate special or a genuinely higher evolution of the baller’s favorite steed. We spent a day in the wilds of New Jersey and upstate New York, along with a few hours at Monticello Raceway to find out. Ladies and gentlemen, allow us to introduce you to the first Continental you can feel.
Think of the Bentley Continental Supersports as Usain Bolt: both are hypothetically too big to perform as they do, but they do it anyway.
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First Drive: 2011 Bentley Continental GT
When tasked with creating the 2011 Continental GT, Bentley officials sought the assistance of those who knew the outgoing car best – its owners. Upon querying current and past Continental GT buyers about what they’d like to see in the new model, a surprisingly unified voice came back loud and clear: “Don’t screw up my car, but fix the sat-nav.” As far as owner surveys go, this type of response speaks volumes. Most apparent is that it speaks to the universal inadequacy of the outgoing car’s wayfinding electronics, but more importantly, it serves to underscore just how much of a bull’s-eye Bentley hit with the original model back in 2003. After all, who among us couldn’t think of a laundry list of improvements for our daily driver? This also goes some way toward explaining how the GT has been on the market for eight years, yet it has still sold in respectable numbers.
Of course, given ever-toughening emissions and crash standards to contend with, Bentley couldn’t simply shove a new infotainment system in the Conti’s dashboard and amble off to the pub job-done, so they set about improving the car in a million little ways so that it’s at once clearly new and fresh to the faithful, yet endearingly familiar. Surprisingly, much the same can be said for the Sultanate of Oman where Bentley hosted our first drive…
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First Drive: 2012 Bentley Continental GT
Snub-nosed and broad-shouldered, the 2012 Bentley Continental GT epitomizes the cliche “things are not always what they seem.” Although it weighs more than many a sport/utility (5100 pounds) and looks like a prince’s imperious weekend cruiser, the GT excels at doing what you think it can’t — in this case, blasting from 0 to 60 in an estimated 4.4 seconds and hitting a top speed of 198 mph.
Further, the so-called “second generation” Bentley two-door’s exterior has been thoughtfully and thoroughly restyled. Nevertheless, it bears a strong resemblance to the first gen that debuted for the 2003 model year — at least upon first glance — and on the surface doesn’t appear to be much of an improved driver in light of its predecessor. But it is. And by a lot. Remember, this Continental is not exactly what it seems. In terms of style, speed, and sophistication, it is deceptively adept.
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Bentley Continental Flying Spur Arabia special edition launched exclusively in Middle-East
British ultra-luxury automaker Bentley will be producing two separate special Bentley edition Continental models for the Middle-East market only.
The two models will be the Continental Flying Spur Arabia and the Continental Flying Spur Speed Arabia. Bentley will limit the two special editions to a (combined) total of just 50 units.
The Flying Spur Arabia gets the standard 6.0 liter twin turbo W12 engine with 552 bhp (412kW) and 650 Nm (479 lb-ft) of torque. The Flying spur Speed Arabia gets that engine tuned upwards to 600 bhp (449 kW) and 553 lb-ft (750 Nm), shaving a tenth of a second off the 0 to 100 km/h sprint time (4.8 instead of 4.9 seconds) and adding 10 km/h to the top speed, now at 322 km/h (200 mph).
First Drive: 2011 Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible delivers the goods
As we see it, there’s one major problem with the 2011 Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible. No, not the $280,000 asking price, or even the give-us-a-break curb weight of 5,269 pounds. We also aren’t talking about the fact that this basic chassis has been around since 2003. Nor are we concerned that there exist very few places on earth where you can even maybe-kinda-sorta properly experience the thrust of the Supersport’s twin-turbo 6.0-liter W12′s profligate output. Get this: 621 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 590 pound-feet of torque available between 2,000-4,500 rpm. Did we mention this one’s a convertible?
Furthermore, the topless Supersports’ problem does not involve the fact that there are very, very few people in its target demographic. You know, the guy that wants to take three members of his family for a ride at 197 mph with the top down (Bentley would like us to point out that with the top up, the Supersports Convertible will hit 202 mph). Thing is, out of the earth’s 6.7 billion inhabitants, there will surely be around 400 folks that fit the bill, coincidentally about the same number of these topless Supersports Bentley intends to build. No, the problem with the Bentley Supersports Convertible is that the preposterously humongous carbon-ceramic brakes feel a bit squishy coming down from 165 mph. Mind you, at 130 mph, the stoppers work like anchors.
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Carrozzeria Touring reportedly to unveil coachbuilt Bentley Continental GTC in 2010 Geneva Motor Showe
If you were enticed by Zagato’s take on the Bentley Continental GT (pictured above), rumor has it Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera has a version of its own in the works.
Anticipated to be unveiled at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in two months’ time, Touring’s coachbuilt Bentley is slated to be based on the convertible Continental GTC, and could borrow its underpinnings from the upcoming GTC SuperSports.
Like Zagato’s Continental GTZ, the second coachbuilt Continental reportedly received support from Crewe. Since its revival, the Carrozzeria gave us such Maserati-based creations as the A8 GCS and Quattroporte Bellagio Fastback, and was recently rumored to be working on a custom Ferrari design as well.
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