Dealerships are taking orders for the the Bentley Grand Convertible, a Mulsanne presented at the LA Auto Program last year, and it is anticipated to expose its production type at some point late next year on its way to showroom by very early 2017. Brand CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer said “Mulsanne will obtain more by-products,” plural. Probably that indicates that with an exchangeable on its way to reality, a coupe something like a modern-day Brooklands will certainly adhere to. A long-wheelbase Mulsanne is in the jobs, also.
The Grand Convertible will use the Mulsanne’s new face, arranged for expose at next year’s Geneva Electric motor Program. Auto claims the front will be “squarer” and also the grille “a lot more upright,” which we didn’t think was possible, and flaunt “3 brick-shaped air intakes,” evidently to highlight the upright squareness. Plus, brand-new fronts lights.
The third-generation Continental and Flying Stimulate varieties would come after that, laid atop the MSB system and also rolling out of Crewe over a two-year period starting in 2017. They must still be powered by 4.0-liter V8 and 6.0-liter W12 engines, yet the bodywork around those motors will be “both evolutionary and daring.” This, then, ought to be the leap that Bentley wished to make with the second-generation Continental but could not.
Whither the EXP 10 Rate 6? Dürheimer claimed the customer feedback has actually been, “Don’t ask us inquiries, merely do it.” The last information we had over the summer was that Bentley was determining whether to expand the line-up following with a small SUV or the Rate 6. It’s unclear which will certainly come first, yet Dürheimer stated, “I’m confident that with EXP10 Rate 6 we will certainly find a good solution,” as well as business case for it goes to the board a year from now. Auto recommends it will take place sale in 2020 with a 600-horsepower, twin-turbo V8. That smaller sized SUV is still on the table, though, an entry-level providing that would make use of the re-innovated of the Audi Q5.
