The Bentley Mulliner Batur – the following exceptionally unique, handcrafted and infinitely customisable grand tourer coachbuilt by Mulliner – will makes its world debut at Monterey Automotive Week this weekend.
The Batur is a lot greater than the successor to the extraordinary Bacalar – a run of 12 Barchetta-design Bentleys. Below the stewardship of Director of Design Andreas Mindt, it showcases an all-new design language for Bentley, with traditional options from the previous reinterpreted into new, cleaner types that depend on the usage of distinction to supply definition. This new Bentley design DNA will form the longer term vary of Bentley Battery Electrical Autos (BEVs), with the primary to be launched in 2025.
Just like the Bacalar, the Batur is called after an exquisite pure physique of water. Lake Batur is an 88m deep, 16 km² crater lake in Kintamani on the island of Bali, Indonesia.
Additionally as per the Bacalar, the Batur encapsulates final co-creation and personalisation alternatives for its shoppers. The color and end of each floor and part will be specified by the client, with virtually limitless methods of making a Batur. Materials choices embrace sustainable pure fibre composites, low-CO2 leather-based and even 3D printed 18K gold.
The Batur celebrates Bentley’s iconic W12 engine, with an iteration producing extra energy and torque than ever earlier than. With Bentley on its Beyond100 journey to turn out to be probably the most sustainable luxurious mobility firm on this planet, the W12 is coming into its twilight years – however not earlier than it powers the Batur to being the last word Bentley grand tourer.
The ability of the W12 shall be matched by Bentley’s most superior chassis system ever, bringing distinctive dynamism to match gorgeous straight-line efficiency.
The Bentley Mulliner Batur shall be revealed to the world at 04:00 BST on Sunday twenty first August (20:00 PST on Saturday twentieth).
SOURCE: Bentley
