Bentley Bentayga

Bentley

MarqueBentley
ProductionDecember 2015 – present
EnginePetrol: / 4.0 L List of Volkswagen Group petrol engines#4.0 V8 TFSI / EA825 twin-turbo V8 engine / V8 / List of Volkswagen Group petrol engines#W12 / 6.0 

The Bentley Bentayga is a 5-door 4x4 from Bentley, built from 2015, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. SangYup Lee drew it.

The story

The Bentley Bentayga is a luxury SUV produced by British marque Bentley Motors. Introduced in late 2015, it is the brand's first luxury crossover SUV. Its unibody is manufactured at the Volkswagen Zwickau-Mosel Plant in Germany, then painted and assembled at Bentley's factory in Crewe, United Kingdom.

What is underneath

Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 2440 kg. It shifts through a 8-speed ZF 8HP90 automatic. The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 2992 mm / 3175 mm (EWB). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Its place in the line

Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Crewe (Bentley Crewe), United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Ferrari 488, the Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Camaro — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Bentley catalogue sit the Armoured Arnage and the Bentley 3 Litre.

Specifications

Transmission8-speed ZF 8HP90 automatic
LayoutFront-engine, four-wheel-drive
Body style5-door 4x4
Kerb weight2440 kg
Wheelbase2992 mm / 3175 mm (EWB)
Length5,141 mm
AssemblyUnited Kingdom: Crewe (Bentley Crewe)
DesignerSangYup Lee
Catalogue IDQ19606707
SourceWikipedia