Wild new 641bhp Bentley Bentayga Speed has Porsche 911 pace

Wild new 641bhp Bentley Bentayga Speed has Porsche 911 pace

The new Bentley Bentayga Speed has been unwrapped as the brand’s quickest SUV yet, beating its predecessor to 62mph by half a second and going on to 193mph. It swaps the previous Bentayga Speed’s 6.0-litre W12, now retired, for a twinturbocharged 4.0-litre V8 that puts out 641bhp and 627lb ft – a gain of 15bhp […]

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Real range anxiety: Driving London to Land’s End in 1921

Real range anxiety: Driving London to Land’s End in 1921

One local resident reacted to the large group of “weirdly clad” men hanging around in the dark by “retiring to her cottage in haste to bolt and bar the door”! The competitors had to not only cover 314 miles on narrow, usually dirt roads using feeble headlights but also brave challenging weather, with “many devoutly wishing they

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‘Too many brands?’ Why Chery is adding Lepas to Jaecoo and Omoda

‘Too many brands?’ Why Chery is adding Lepas to Jaecoo and Omoda

At Chery’s sprawling HQ in the city of Wuhu, two hours west of Shanghai, dozens of prototypes circle the streets linking the company’s various R&D facilities.  In one prototype jam, we spot a camouflaged Lepas with Audi’s four rings crudely drawn on tape covering the badge.  The marking was clearly a joke, but it was also

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Matt Prior: I bought an Audi A2 for £500 – and it’s brilliant

Matt Prior: I bought an Audi A2 for £500 – and it’s brilliant

But when you factored in residual values, plus the A2’s fuel efficiency, ownership costs would have been extremely competitive. Buyers didn’t see it that way, though. It’s a shame, but perhaps no great surprise, that the A2 received no direct replacement, and that Mercedes eventually let the A-Class morph into the trad C-segment hatchback it

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