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BENTLEY BROOKLANDS Reviews
Bentley Brooklands is a great pub car. By this I don’t mean just that it’s a great car in which to go the pub – it undoubtedly is, but check the size of the car park first – more that it seems like the sort of car that could only have been conceived after a couple of pints. This isn’t a criticism. Uninhibited thought is a wonderful thing.
Cynics might be tempted to complete the sentence with ‘…global warming didn’t exist?’. Perhaps Bentley’s engineers are not certain that it does. As its name suggests, the Brooklands harks back to Bentley’s glorious, profligate past when the romance of motoring and racing had a direct and passionate correlation with size, power and speed – as in huge, massive and implausible.
Every expression of ‘lavish’ you can think of applies to the Brooklands – not least its use of what people refer to as the most precious commodity of all. It takes 130 hours just to hand-weld the body-in-white together. Any Japanese car plant worth its salt would build a dozen superminis in the same time. For the £14,000 it costs to have ceramic rather than steel versions of the world’s largest (422mm) disc brakes that nestle behind the 20in wheels, you could buy a couple of them. Lavish, too, the 3.5 billion colour/trim/kit permutations offered as standard. Throw the in-house bespoke services of Mulliner Park Ward into the mix and you’d need to employ an astro-physicist to write the number down.
BENTLEY BROOKLANDS Specifications
Average Resale Value
: N/A
MPG Range
: 9 - 15 mpg
Bodystyles
: Coupe
Engine
: Engine V8, 6761cc
Max power
: 530bhp @ 4000rpm
Max torque
: 774lb ft @ 3250rpm
0 - 60mph
: 5.0sec (claimed)
Top speed
: 184mph (claimed)
Price
: £230,000
