VW Dieselgate Scandal May Cost Bentley New Hypercar Project

In 2019, Bentley will be celebrating 100 years of car making, an occasion just as good as others to bring out a bespoke model that would have a dizzying price tag. That seems to have been the plan all along.

 In a recent interview with Top Gear, Wolfgang Durheimer, the CEO of Bentley and Bugatti, said that “our centenary would be a good time to create a new limited series car”. A clearer hint to what that may suggest couldn’t have been offered.

 No further details about the car were provided but some idea of how it would turn up could be noticed in the speech of the CEO. He mentioned that the price tag should be at least 1 million British pounds which would be around $2.2 million at today’s exchange rates.

scenicbyway12 - 9/23/2015 3:14:35 PM

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Dieselgate may cost VW Bentley.

MDarringer - 9/23/2015 7:19:37 PM

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nah! If anything it will force the question of why VWAG has VW, Skoda, and Seat atmed at the same market.

MDarringer - 9/23/2015 7:21:00 PM

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Bentley should not have a hypercar. Bentley's are aristocratic British sedans.

Audi should not have an R8. VWAG has Porsche and Lamborghini to do sports cars.

absent - 9/23/2015 8:49:34 PM

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1mln British Pound equals $1.53mln not $2.2mln.

carloslassiter - 9/24/2015 8:22:10 AM

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I just don't see this as a Bentley at all. They may as well make an airplane to celebrate 100 years.