Not good, then. However another reason to plan forward, take your time, sit again and benefit from the journey. It’s what this automobile is finest at.
Find it irresistible:
‘UBER-BENTLEY’ MODE There’s nothing extra refined than an EV, and when it’s on this mode, the Bentayga feels very Bentley certainly.
Detest it:
SUB-BENTLEY ENGINE The off-the-peg 3.0-litre Audi V6 shouldn’t be a really Bentley engine, however because of hybrid torque, you not often want to make use of many revs.
Mileage: 5420
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Provides greater than you anticipate – 24 November 2021
In my quest to maintain operating prices inside faintly reasonably priced limits, I’ve been going so far as I can on electrical energy. The blurb says 24 miles is all you’ll get out of the battery, however even with out making an attempt I’m seeing 30 or extra. It additionally regenerates a lot that by descending a close-by hill I can add three miles. Hopefully such measures will assist hold me from debtor’s jail for some time but.
Mileage: 5344
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Welcoming the Bentayga Hybrid to the fleet – seventeenth November 2021
It’s an indication of the occasions that I’m even penning this. Ten years in the past, the very thought of a Bentley SUV would have appeared onerous to think about, though I’m not fully certain why, on condition that the model constructed its title on enormous, heavy, do-anything, goanywhere vehicles. However the thought that Bentley won’t solely construct such a automobile however then equip it with the smallest engine ever fitted to a Bentley, the primary with six cylinders because the Nineteen Fifties and the least highly effective within the fashionable historical past of the model? That might have been nearer to unthinkable.
However we should transfer with the occasions, whether or not we just like the path of journey or not, and you may’t blame Bentley for doing so, as a result of the statistics say my new long-term Bentayga Hybrid will cowl 83.1 miles for each gallon of unleaded I purchase and emit solely 82g of CO2 for each kilometre travelled. In environmental phrases, it makes a 1.0-litre Volkswagen Up appear like a Sherman tank. Or fairly it might have been such numbers not utter garbage. Their solely relevance is to the taxman, ergo the explanation for the automobile’s existence. And the reality is that, because of this alone and rightly or wrongly, there can be people who find themselves capable of park a Bentley outdoors their home who may by no means have been capable of dream of doing so earlier than.
