2021 Bentley Bentayga Review: The SUV KING? | 4K

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is the benchmark when it comes to luxury suvs, it was the first and

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says it was also the best, but it now faces huge competition from the likes of the rolls-royce culinan, the lamborghini urus and the aston martin dbx, so the boys and girls on the team have had to up their game with this new Bentayga. Yes, this 2020 Bentayga has a huge weight of expectations on its shoulders. Bentley says it has to offer the performance of a supercar and the ride comfort of a limousine. -On-road capability to match a Range Rover, the semi-autonomous driving capability of something from the future, as well as the craftsmanship you'd expect from a Bentley.

I want to examine some of these credentials starting with all the Bentley quality, craftsmanship and design. I say this has a safer side. I say he has a less ugly face, so there is a slight difference of opinion, but I guess when you have a less ugly face, of course, you will be more confident, so maybe we are both right in terms. As a result of specific changes, the grille is now wider than before and a little more vertical. They've also put the b badge directly on this new clamshell bonnet to make it less fussy than before and it has these gorgeous cut glass LED headlights bringing it in line with the Continental GT and Bentley Flying Spur, this is the car that didn't like a lot of people when it first came out, but I think with these small changes, especially this beautiful color on the sides, not much has changed, but you get more aerodynamic b vents and The larger wheels, 22, are standard now instead of 21, which gives it a better wheel-to-body ratio and, spea

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of bees, they've ditched the B-shaped brake lights at the rear in favor of ovals again with 3D cut glass elements - interesting, if not completely.

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gauge animations and these elliptical exhausts Practicality is also decent, although not the best, interestingly it only has 484 liters, which is the same as what you get in a Range Rover Evoque, the Rolls-Royce Culinan offers 600 liters and the aston martin dbx offers you 632 Now, as the boot is quite small, that means that the interior can be quite large and they have improved the amount of legroom that you get in the new Bentega by a hundred millimeters, which is what It is equivalent to four inches, and they have done it by slightly adjusting the trunk. The dash that separates the trunk from the cabin has also improved the amount of tilt angle you get with the seat, so before you had 32 degrees of tilt, but now look at this, with 40 degrees of tilt, you can get a proper rest here.

The mantega comes with three different seating options, a seven-seater, a five-seater, which is this one and a four-seater, if you opt for the four-seater, the elegant one, then you have the option of purchasing the bottle cooler of mulliner console, which is a bentley for refrigerator and which normally lives here and which comes with two Cumbrian cut crystal champagne flutes, as well as space for a 750ml bottle of Waitro's best cutter. Today I'm slamming it into the five seater so I only have room for a couple of cup holders but that's pretty decent and all Bentaygas come with this lovely detachable 5 inch tablet that lets you control various functions in the car, unfortunately it doesn't allow you to deploy the flying bee like it did in the flying spur.

I've got a flying bee on this one, I think that's down to safety, but you can control other things like seat ventilation, climate control and also the blinds on this huge panoramic glass sunroof at the front. Bentley has updated things with some useful tweaks. We've pushed the center console further into the cabin and freed up space by creating a dedicated place for your mobile phone with an inductive charging unit and signal booster. It has a really beautiful new vent design and clock on the top of the dashboard inspired by that of the bentley baccala along with the newly designed seats the leather here by the way is beluga I think that's the color and not a real whale I don't think Not even Bentley would be outraged enough to cover their car in whale skin, but if they did.

It still looks amazing and the stitching is especially delicious talking about stitching. They have fixed the seams on the address, believe it or not the old one had seams on the outside edges, but they have moved it so that all the seams are now on the inside edges. so now protect your fingers from damage, I guess on the old

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people complained about bleeding everywhere because of all the thread gutting their fingers, now knobs, you know I really like my knobs and these are some of the best in the game. Believe me, I wish you could feel them, but you can hear them almost like a delicate little tap and then you go down to these ones that control the climate control with a slightly higher pitch, honestly the mechanical nature of the haptic sensation contrasts wonderfully with the backdrop Back of the postmodern liquid crystal display that shows the sick room temperature, the screens are new, unfortunately the Bentayga lacks the three-sided rotating screen that you get on the Flying Spur, but this 10.9-inch screen is High resolution, has nice, clean graphics and a simple interface.

So it's the little things that elevate the Bentayga, the technology, the materials, the fit and finish, but what about the way it drives? How do you think it drives? So Bentley Bentayga could have made a couple of subtle tweaks with this car, but they definitely have. I haven't thrown the baby out with the bathwater, the mantega has always been brilliant and this new one, just as good, what gets me is how refined it is, it's definitely a step above models like the BMW X5 or Mercedes gle, which is simply Also, because this cost around £147,000, it has 22in wheels as standard with solid rubber and yet there is very little road noise, you can hear a pin drop here .

They are also double glazed so there is no wind noise. it could all be starting out there, but here, quietly, this thing weighs about 2,400 kilograms, but I estimate that half a ton is a sound-defining material because it's suitably plush, all the touch points feel great and everything, from the gauges to the wipers to the light switches the knobs we already know the steering wheel has a lovely weight everything looks expensive as you would expect from a bentley bentayga the bentega has a bunch of different driving modes that you can click on Al Using this dial on the center console, Comfort is obviously the best way to drive every day, raises the suspension height and allows the shocks to operate at their most forgiving setting.

Sport is obviously the most aggressive driving mode, lowering the suspension and provoking the steering. The steering wheel stiffens, gives you more responsiveness with the accelerator, and everything feels angrier, more alive. There's also a custom mode that lets you adjust everything to your personal taste, but honestly, the best mode of all is before the Bentley. It's a good setup that gives you a good middle ground between comfort and performance. Interestingly, Bentley also has a bunch of different off-road modes, which I find a little confusing because who's going to take their 150,000 SUV off-road I also haven't made it any easier to use to understand what the ones are supposed to do. different modes, for example, on the dial, it looks like I have a kind of snow and pine cone mode, then you have the landmine driving mode, the Christmas mode. and the spaghetti western mode of comedy.

I think again there's no indication of what any of these modes do and I don't think anyone who buys this car is going to take advantage of them anyway, it's a great thing and all of this comes together to make for a really comfortable ride, so comfortable That Bentley claims the Bentayga has adequate limousine comfort, that's big talk. I will be the judge that this is a martini glass and inside, of course, is the best martini that is the person holding it. a very important dignitary, he's so important that he can't actually sit in the back, he's really like a vip, he's actually our cameraman, so if the footage in this movie is rubbish, then you can blame him, what I'm going to do is just go away to drive and show you how wonderful that Bentayga is.

I'm going to put it in comfort mode just to make it a little easier for you, my friend, and what you'll notice is how smooth it is, look at this throttle. The pedal is really easy to modulate. I can accelerate smoothly. Look at this, pulling 40 to 50 miles per hour, without any drama and then I can take off, hit the brakes. They're not carbon ceramics, but look, look at any other car that does. It's already going to be everywhere, but it holds its own in a corner and what you're noticing right there is the 48-volt active roll stabilization, basically a pair of motors on each of the stabilizer bars that rotate and apply force outward, literally. pushing the car down on the outside side as you go around the corner, the theory is that it should keep the car completely flat and as you can see it's working great, look at that, look at that air suspension, look at that, that It's glorious right here. left curve coming, this is a 60 mile per hour zone, which means I have to throw it at 60 to the right, ah, it's on my leg, but there are still loads there, right, another curve is coming on the left, this one looks a little faster, oh, tight hold, good. sustained, look at that and the acceleration, oh look, tell me that's not a proper consumer test, that's epic, well done Bentley, so it's clearly refined and did I mention the interior is very easy to dry?

No I didn't, yes it is, but is it fast? you should figure it out cheeky zero to 60 test yeah why not sport mode brake accelerate drop there we go oh she pulls the result is pretty explosive for a car this size the bentayga won't do anything at 62 in 4.4 seconds that's on the quick side The Aston Martin does it at the same time, and while it can't match the Euro Lambo's 3.8 second time, it's plenty quick for something this size. The reason it is so fast is because it uses a four-liter twin-turbo V8 engine that generates 550 horsepower and 770 Nm.

Not at all, yes, it's the same engine they use in the Porsche KN Turbo and no, it doesn't make more power or torque than the previous generation Bentayga, but who cares about this, it's an absolute train. Acceleration is always aggressive, the Bentayga is constantly eager to get away making overtaking maneuvers simple and effortless and if you have a highway or a death wish it will top out at a frankly terrifying 180 miles per hour, the exhaust is lovely and it's not particularly loud, but you get this lovely slow rumble when you're just cruising around town and then when you open it up it screams, it really does, it's a really nice tone as far as the gearbox goes, which What they haven't done is opt for a dual-clutch transmission on this one and that could be bad news if you're a driving purist because of course, as we all know, dual-clutch gearboxes give you a lot more responsiveness. when it comes to selecting the exact gear you want at the exact moment you want it.

What they have chosen is an eight-speed automatic and the reason for this is that the cars allow you to tow heavier loads and of course Bentley Bentega owners will probably do some towing, but you know, it's not all bad news because This gearbox is reasonably responsible, like all gearboxes. This type hesitates a little when going from third to second or from second to first, but in all other places it is a decent box, the truth is that it is not as agile as I would have liked. The Bentayga you can really feel its weight when you crowd into a corner.

This is not a car that likes to be hustled at ten tenths, in fact you can feel a lot of understeer and if you're not careful, if you go too hot, you can go out too fast and end up somewhere. You might not want to be where the car is best if you slow it down slightly, drive it at eight-tenths, let it settle into the corner, and then use the prodigious power out of that corner and when you drive it. The way this car is happy to be driven has a lovely fluidity to it, you can string together a sequence of corners and really get involved with the driving experience and in fact the steering has a good amount of feedback as a result.

Yes, overall it is a car to drive. It's easy to see why the Bentayga has been the benchmark for luxury SUVs. Yes, it had the advantage of being first, but even though there are now some newcomers who do some things better, e.g. The Aston Martin DBX certainly handles better, the Rolls-Royce Culinan is much more luxurious, and the Lamborghini Urus accelerates like nothing else on four wheels its size. The Bentayga can't match the individual strengths of any of those cars, but where it excels is in its ability to offer a packagereally complete still fast still fun still luxurious than bentayga still the daddy there