Bentley Loss May Induce Caution In Would-Be Premium Floats. “Our analysis of the business results of the premium and luxury manufacturers clearly shows even here money does not grow on trees” Volvo Cars is about to float on the stock market, closely followed probably by Aston Martin, but investors, excited by massive profits at Italian […]
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Bentley Bentayga Owns Super Luxury SUV Market
Bentley Bentayga Owns Super Luxury SUV Market. But Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari Lurk. “Bentley has the ultra-luxury SUV sector to themselves, but they won’t in just a year or so from now” If you’ve got a quarter of a million dollars to spend, this could be the SUV for you. For most […]
Bentley, Maserati, Jaguar Prop Up Reliability Survey
Bentley, Maserati, Jaguar Prop Up Reliability Survey. “could it be the plethora of new, high tech but unproven gizmos offered in these vehicles?” “The fact Hyundai of Korea was in sixth place, but its sister company Kia with almost identical vehicles, was 19th looks weird” It looks like the result of a survey of the […]
Mahindra Will Use Pininfarina To Threaten New Markets
Mahindra Will Use Pininfarina To Threaten New Markets. “Where Pininfarina comes into our equation is they are great at design and style. Where we come in is as industrial engineers.” Mahindra Group of India wants to use newly acquired and legendary Italian designer Pininfarina to attack new markets in Europe and the U.S. not only […]
Bentley Unlikely To Hit Even More Modest Sales Target
Bentley Unlikely To Hit Even More Modest Sales Target. “The Middle East is a big worry. It’s a big market, but even the Saudis are running out of money” Bentley, British-based luxury car making subsidiary of Volkswagen currently launching the world’s most expensive and fastest SUV the Bentayga, has trimmed its sales targets for 2020 […]
Bentley Shows Hybrid Concept Scheduled For Its SUV
Expect More Luxury Car Makers To Follow This Route. British-based and Volkswagen-owned luxury vehicle maker Bentley is jumping on the plug-in hybrid bandwagon showing its Bentley Hybrid Concept to demonstrate the technology set to appear in the company’s SUV available in 2017. The Bentley Hybrid Concept will be on display at the Beijing International Automotive […]
Bentley Sharpens Up Its Continental GT Range
“Bentley played a video to prove the car was loud and very fast” British based super-luxury marque Bentley has added a bit of spice to its Continental GT coupe range, raising the power of the engine and sharpening up the car’s handling. Bentley, owned by Volkswagen of Germany, said this new version of the Continental […]
Bentley In The Money Again, And Plans New SUV
China Sales, Emerging Markets Make The Difference Bentley is back in the black again after two years of losses and is feeling confident enough about its future to talk about introducing a new sport utility vehicle. The British based luxury car maker owned by Volkswagen said its sales spurted 37 per cent in 2011 to […]
Outraged By Taxpayer Gift To VW? How About Welsh Rallying
Outraged By Taxpayer Gift To VW? How About Welsh Rallying If you were as angered as me when you heard that your hard-earned tax was given to fund millionaire Bentley supercar buyers when its owner was flush-with profits Volkswagen, then you will be reaching for your pitchforks when you hear about the latest recipient of […]
British Taxpayer Funds Bentley Engines; Why Didn’t VW Cough Up?
British Taxpayer Funds Bentley Engines; Why Didn’t VW Cough Up? Why does Bentley need almost £5 million of hard-earned taxpayer money to fund new engines, when it is owned by Volkswagen of Germany which in October announced it earned more than £6 billion in profit in the third quarter and is likely to make […]