The Bentley Bentayga first made its appearance as the EXP 9 F concept at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show
Of course, you must add running costs to that. How about, for the popular 6.0-litre W12 petrol version, £700 a year road tax and 19mpg, plus servicing?
Thanks to its extra weight and bespoke air suspension settings, it rides slightly more comfortably than the W12. It’s more economical, too, of course, returning around 35mpg, and, at just £190 per year, is cheaper to tax. Otherwise, there was only one well-equipped trim level, but the options list was long, so compare cars carefully. Popular packs included Touring , All-Terrain and City .
This comes at a price but also with the reassurance that you are buying from the experts. The cheapest Certified Bentayga we saw was a 2018-reg diesel, priced at just under £70,000 or around half what it cost new. The car had done 51 ,000 miles. Next cheapest was a W12 First Edition, registered in 2017. It had done 40,000 miles and was priced at around £75,000.Out of that, Bentley crafted a car that looked very much like a Bentley.
Look out of the double-glazed windows and the rest of the world is passing by below. You’re lifted out of the melee of everyday life much as you would be in any upmarket SUV. Above it is a colour head-up display, and immediately adjacent and all around it is the many-layered, highly polished, book-matched burr veneer that Bentley does so warmly and so well.
Space in the second row was generous, even for bigger adults. It’s wasn't quite in stretched limousine territory but sufficient that most would hardly notice. The Bentayga was all suave, velvet, discreet civility, even at serious pace. It declined to ever claw at the road surface, no matter what you did with the right-foot pedal, and it accelerated from a standstill with a gathering surge akin to that of a powerboat rising out of the surf.
This wasn't a car that imagined you were interested in a sense of connection with the road surface or with the contact patches of the tyres, and it wasn't out to do anything as imposing as engaging you with the act of driving too much.Where the everyday road use was concerned, the car had Comfort, Sport and Custom modes, as well as a Bentley mode, which sets it all up as the engineers would recommend.
It was the price of cheating physics with that active anti-roll system and shunning so many opportunities to filter control feedback into the mix – but it didn't detract much from the dynamic appeal of the car.
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