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Bentley announces 120g/km CO2 by 2012

Bentley announces 120g/km CO2 by 2012

Bentley has surprised the industry by announcing that its future model will comply with the future 2012 EU regulation, 120g/km CO2 emission. The statement is rather bold at at time when the company’s fleet average is around 400g of CO2 per km. Bentley sales and marketing director Stuart McCullough said that the carmaker planned to [...]

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Zagato unveils the Bentley GTZ

Zagato unveils the Bentley GTZ

Italian coachbuilder Zagato will unveil its latest creation, the Bentley GTZ, at Geneva this week. The GTZ comes with the company’s design DNA such as the concave roof, the rounded aft and a contrasting painting scheme. The GTZ adds new taillights and flared wheelarches. It also features a hand-shaped aluminium body. The GTZ is based [...]

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Chinese car luxury market boom

Chinese car luxury market boom

Bentley has sold 338 cars in China and Hong Kong last year, a 93 percent increase over 2006 while Rolls Royce sold 106 vehicles on the Chinese market. Mainland China represents an critical market for the two carmakers. For Bentley China became its fifth market after the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. Bentley [...]

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Future Bentleys might be powered by diesel

Future Bentleys might be powered by diesel

Volkswagen is seriously considering fitting diesel engines in future Bentley models as marketing director Adrian Hallmark revealed in an interview with AutoTelegraaf. He said customers enjoy the high torque and low rev of Bentley’s engines which is perfectly matched a diesel engine. The company has the choice inside the engine range of Volkswagen group. There [...]

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VW Group to develop four new platforms

VW Group to develop four new platforms

In an interview given to Automotive News Europe, VW brand board member for development, Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg revealed that Volkswagen group will release four new platforms in the coming years in order to achieve the 2018 target. With those new platforms, the German carmaker expects to reduce its cost by 40% thanks to components shared [...]

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Sales record for Bentley

Sales record for Bentley

There was a time when Bentley could barely sell its cars. Then, almost ten years ago, Volkswagen bought Bentley. Since then and the launch of the Continental GT, the British carmaker has broken its sales records every year. 2007 promises to be the best year yet. Indeed, Bentley sold 5,600 cars in the first semester [...]

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