Bentley SUV

woodpigeon4 · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:18

Peerzy said:
Looks really old and ugly from the front. Surely make it good enough looking and footballers etc will snap it up like the CGT?

Since when have footballers been known to buy good looking cars?

DM · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:22

See this whole footballer thing grates on me, who gives 2 ****s what footballers or their wives drive?

They are just the same as anyone with a few quid, if you avoided cars that people with a few quid bought, once you accumulate a few quid you'd still be driving a Mondeo.

Morba · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:26

peterattheboro said:
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/214479/ferrari_suv.html

thats older than most old things. was probably the precursor to the FF tbh.

woodpigeon4 · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:32

DM said:
See this whole footballer thing grates on me, who gives 2 ****s what footballers or their wives drive?

They are just the same as anyone with a few quid, if you avoided cars that people with a few quid bought, once you accumulate a few quid you'd still be driving a Mondeo.

I see what you mean, but there's a difference between this:

and this:

and I can tell you something, if I had a "few quid" I'd get a proper car, not some chavved-up SUV

Robbo · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:35

I saw a Bentley Continental GT Cabriolet today and thought of you Mark, the reg was - 48 DM

Cosimo · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:40

That looks ugly.

Peerzy · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:42

DM said:
See this whole footballer thing grates on me, who gives 2 ****s what footballers or their wives drive?

They are just the same as anyone with a few quid, if you avoided cars that people with a few quid bought, once you accumulate a few quid you'd still be driving a Mondeo.

Not saying it's a bad thing, just that it would sell well to people like footballers etc....

Wasn't it Boxster sales to hairdressers like me a Cayenne sales to footballers and drug dealers that saved Porsche a while back.

DM · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:44

woodpigeon4 said:
I see what you mean, but there's a difference between this:

and this:

and I can tell you something, if I had a "few quid" I'd get a proper car, not some chavved-up SUV

How are they "chaved up" ? That Bentley SUV will drive better than 99.7% of cars on the road and have more road presense than the remaining .3%, nothing chav about it, its just ugly thats all.

DM · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:47

Peerzy said:
Not saying it's a bad thing, just that it would sell well to people like footballers etc....

Wasn't it Boxster sales to hairdressers like me a Cayenne sales to footballers and drug dealers that saved Porsche a while back.

No because all that was another load of ****, hairdressers earn 200 quid a week so they dont buy boxsters and cayennes sell to anyone with the money to buy them.

And drug dealers the ones with any brains and real money drive an 09 Mondeo, something they aint in a million years getting stopped in, forget the ****ing jokers that fit the stereo type in a Range Rover sport.

Peerzy · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:48

So I'm not a hairdresser, brilliant!

DM · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:51

Peerzy said:
So I'm not a hairdresser, brilliant!

No of course you aint cos if you were you'd be in a mk4 golf convertible

woodpigeon4 · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:54

DM said:
How are they "chaved up" ? That Bentley SUV will drive better than 99.7% of cars on the road and have more road presense than the remaining .3%, nothing chav about it, its just ugly thats all.

It's not so much that it's ugly (although it definitely is), it's the fact that it looks like someone's modified a normal suv by sticking bits of various prestigious cars all over it, hence the chav comment.

DM · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:56

woodpigeon4 said:
It's not so much that it's ugly (although it definitely is), it's the fact that it looks like someone's modified a normal suv by sticking bits of various prestigious cars all over it, hence the chav comment.

Im not seeing that to be honest, but its all in the eye of the beholder.

woodpigeon4 · 27 Jul 2011 at 17:58

DM said:
Im not seeing that to be honest, but its all in the eye of the beholder.

I guess so. To me it looks like an audi q7 with some continental gt and old merc parts stuck on the front.

Peerzy · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:00

DM said:
No of course you aint cos if you were you'd be in a mk4 golf convertible

Or a Merc like Kimi

DM · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:03

woodpigeon4 said:
I guess so. To me it looks like an audi q7 with some continental gt and old merc parts stuck on the front.

Yes but inside it will be Bentley, and it will have that wonderful W12 turbo engine, which believe me is just superb in every way.

Anyway it is what it is what can we do

TFC · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:16

DM said:
TFC said:

I reckon WO would turn in his grave....

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Except sadly under his supervision Bentley would be a distant memory now instead of a maker of one of the worlds best cars.

Maybe, maybe not... he was a foward thinker for his time and was a brilliant engineer/designer...

DM · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:18

TFC said:
Maybe, maybe not... he was a foward thinker for his time and was a brilliant engineer/designer...

He was and believe me im old so i like old, but sadly without the backing of a big company, these niche companies just die.

Dr. Pain · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:19

wow, looks wicked.

Fronts cool, but any pics of its rear?

TFC · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:25

DM said:
He was and believe me im old so i like old, but sadly without the backing of a big company, these niche companies just die.

Yes I agree, but I'm an oldie as well... in fact I knew him, I was his paperboy and had many a good discussion with him... unfortunately he died when the motor industry was in it's youth and we will never know what may have happened...