Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur has a saloon with the same mechanics that the four-seater coupe Continental GT. Bentley has designed and developed in conjunction with this saloon coupe, so it have many elements in common traits and mechanical style.


Bentley Continental Flying Spur

Dynamically is not what one would expect from a car big and heavy. On the one hand, is nimble, quick and have some brakes resistant. On the other hand, is not as comfortable as can be expected suspension of a luxury saloon of this type.


Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur is a car by an extraordinary degree that there is interior space for occupants of the rear seats and the phenomenal level of virtually all the materials and parts that cover or adorn the interior.


Bentley Continental Flying Spur

If there are four seats, the rear seats have longitudinal electric regulation. The rear seats there are plenty of space lengthwise. Two passengers of average size can go almost entirely with your legs stretched.


Bentley Continental Flying Spur

It measures 5,307 mm in length. For size is much closer to the long versions of bodywork of cars such as Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 7 Series, Audi A8, Jaguar XJ, others like the Maybach 57 (5.7 m in length) or Rolls - Royce Phantom (5.8 m).


Bentley Continental Flying Spur

It's on sale for € 184,832, more expensive than any of the saloons of the BMW, Jaguar and Audi. There is a very big price difference between a Bentley Continental Flying Spur and cars as the Maybach 57 and Rolls-Royce Phantom.


Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur has a twelve-cylinder engine in 'W' of 6.0 litre engine capacity (the same as has the Phaeton, although with two turbochargers). The amount of power that gives Bentley for this saloon is 559 hp.


Bentley Continental Flying Spur

As the coupe, this model has some elements borrowed from the Volkswagen Phaeton (such as suspension). Despite this, the Bentley Continental Flying Spur does not have exactly the same chassis that the Phaeton that neither the Continental GT, because the wheelbase is different in each case. The Bentley Continental Flying Spur is a battle of 3,065 mm to 2,881 mm in length which has the Volkswagen saloon and 2,745 mm in the Bentley saloon. According to the Bentley Continental Flying Spur has a coefficient aerodynamics better than the Continental GT (0.31 versus 0.32 CX).

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur also has springs and tires buffer variable hardness. It has wheels 19 inches in diameter, with steps 275/40 tyres. The four disc brakes are ventilated. The strikers are 405 mm in diameter and 335 mm rear.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur transmission system is similar in all three cases, permanent total traction with gearbox and six-speed automatic (brand ZF). It weighs 2,475 kg.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur accelerates from 0 to 100 kph in 5.2 s and reaches 312 km / h speed limit. It has a fuel tank of 90 litres. A warehouse that is a big need in a car that has approved an average consumption of 17.7 litres/100 km. As its compression ratio is not very high (9 to 1) does not require gasoline 98 NO.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

According to Franz-Josef Paefgen, Chairman of Bentley, "the Bentley Continental Flying Spur has all the technology and equipment that customers want and need. The name of this model is taken from the Bentley Continental Flying Spur 1957. Also in that case there was a saloon derived from a coupe of 1952.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur measured 5.30 meters long. Two of them are also of the Bentley brand, another is the Maybach 57 and the longest (5.83 meters) and expensive (416,000 euros) is the Rolls Royce Phantom.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The sidewalk moves horizontally 10 cm movement that leaves the backing more inclined, for example, of what is achieved in most aircraft to tilt backing. Even in this position of the seat, space for the legs is great.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The passenger seated in the right rear seat has the potential to move the co-pilot's seat as they please, even with a person sitting in it, to further increase the space for their legs. If there is no one to occupy that seat, space is extremely large.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

With so much space for their legs, what is normal carry moderately stretched, especially if reclines backing. With legs stretched, support the feet on a flat plane is not comfortable because only supporters heels, unless she has a very flexible ankle. To alleviate this shortcoming, has provided a small footrest, which can be put in place more convenient for each stature.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

There are two versions, with two or three seats in the seats later. The front seats have 16 electrical regulations, three memoirs, heating, ventilation and massage function. In the model of five seats, the rear seats are side ventilation, heating and lumbar adjustment (unlike the four-seater version, in five moves the sidewalk not lengthwise).

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur interior reading lights seem sufficient. In these cars is essential to have a powerful inner light, to read comfortably at night. In a car, but make sure that the user places the post located sufficiently large before making the purchase decision.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur has set many details of a level that is not in the luxury saloons from BMW, Mercedes, Audi or Jaguar. For example, many commanders are manufactured or at least finished in metal.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

Another interesting detail is that the seats, all of the inside of doors (including the bottom of the side pockets), the amounts of doors and roof are entirely upholstered in leather (which may be of various colors). The inner part of the roof is coated with only two portions of skin that run lengthwise around the ceiling (and this car is long).

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The fur lining inside the Bentley Continental Flying Spur come from cold climates, where there are fewer insects (their bites can impair the quality of the skin). According to Bentley takes 5 hours overlay in a leaflet. The wood that covers the inside is walnut (without bleach). Alternatively, some elements of the interior can be coated in four different styles.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The Bentley Continental Flying Spur is not a car for those who seek a luxury saloon over any locker variable, which has no interest in it is stable. Quite the contrary, a car is stable and relatively agile, which will not be satisfactory for anyone who wants to pass on irregularities soil without finding out. Even is very isolated from the noise of the engine, transmission or the aerodynamic.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The driver can adjust the hardness of the shock absorbers in three programs from a knob on the dashboard. What is most unlike the harder it's softer than the first contains the best possible large movements (rolling or pitching) that can have the bodywork. That is, selecting the program harder bodywork gives the impression of going over 'subject' softer with the program.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

By contrast, the hardness of various programmes does not have much influence on what the car when passing through those irregularities that gives a quick and sudden movement to the wheels (such as expansion joints, broken in the road or soundtracks limitation speed).

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

For how enters into bends and how responded to indications of the steering wheel, falls within the definition of car stable. The high weight of this luxury car does not imply a limitation nor an excessive burden: a car is neither clumsy nor his weight never leaves evidence in the engine, or the brakes are exhausted with ease.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

It has a 6.0 litre engine cubic capacity, two turbochargers and 559 hp power. The Bentley Continental Flying Spur has a capacity of impressive acceleration. Of those cars that, in addition to running a lot, it seems.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

This feeling stems from the strong response that has the engine in a wide range of revolutions. Their ability acceleration is so great that can reach speeds near the maximum in a short time.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

Unlike the German luxury saloons, this Bentley has no speed electronically limited. According to official figures, reaching 312 mph and accelerates to maximum speed to 100 km / h in 5.2 seconds.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

Despite the enormous potential of its engine, is not compromised stability. Even taking advantage of its maximum capacity of acceleration at the exit of curves rather slow, the car has no sudden movements and the stability control comes infrequently, does not limit the ability of acceleration.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

The fact that you have traction permanent total (has a central Torsion differential) is crucial to achieve this result, a car with an engine over 500 hp and a single driving force (even with very good motor) makes skate wheels to accelerate High on short marches.