Deep in the leafy gardens of the Sunset Marquis Hotel, Bentley introduced its latest rolling homage to opulence: The Bentayga “First Edition” superluxe SUV. It’s a fitting location for such a debut; this legendary hotel has offered protection and pampering to well-heeled glitterati for more than a half-century. Roger Waters famously laid low here during … Read more
Welcome to Critic’s Notebook, a quick and off-the-cuff collection of impressions, jottings, and marginalia on whatever The Drive writers happen to be driving. Today’s edition: The Bentley Mulsanne Speed. A rep for Rolls-Royce once elucidated the difference between his six-figures wares and Bentley’s: “You drive a Bentley,” he scoffed, “But you’re driven in a Rolls.” His slight missed the mark, … Read more
Green velvet mountains roll across the horizon, tight swaths of spruce trees streaking them with a dark crystalline fur. Above them loom the gray, jagged rock-candy peaks of the Bavarian Alps, veined white with snow, and I am steaming straight for them in a hushed, gleaming, 7,000-pound drawing room that costs more than my first … Read more
Gordon Gekko, that slicked-back, suspendered embodiment of Wall Street greed, would surely cheer the Bentley Continental GT Speed. Sorry, make that “Bentley Continental GT Speed Black Edition.” Like the acquisitive Michael Douglas character, the Bentley Black plays by its own penthouse rules. Get what you want, and then want some more: In this case, the … Read more