NEW Bentley Flying Spur Review: A 207mph SUPERCAR For Grandparents? | 4K

this is the Bentley Flying Spur it costs £170,000 it reaches 207 miles per hour at full speed it's basically a

supercar

for your grandad Bentley says it's the ultimate embodiment of luxury, refinement and performance I think Rolls-Royce might have something to say to the respect but we'll give Bentley a chance to prove itself in those three areas and find out if this Flying Spur really is the best high-performance luxury cruiser big money can buy. Everything seems very expensive, right? I'm afraid to think what. It will all cost to insure, but don't forget you can get an insurance quote or monthly payments for this from Auto Trader Car in the UK.

Every hyper-luxury car should look good and I have to say the Flying Spur. It has some serious presence, firstly it is huge, measuring 5.3 meters long and 2.2 meters wide, making it bigger than a Range Rover. The best thing is definitely the front. Look at this. The headlights are especially striking. There are so many types of jewelry embedded. Here it almost looks like it was crashed into the chandelier section of a John Lewis department store and you've got the grille with huge loads of chrome. There's actually a black line spec that lets you black out all of this for a stealthier look.

This is plastic. Unfortunately or fortunately, because I'm scared to think of the damage you could do if you hit someone with all that metal and then there's the resistance PS, the emblem on the hood. Now on Rolls Royces you have the spirit of ecstasy, but on Bentleys normally what you Get is just a simple badge, but they've actually redesigned the hood emblem for their centenary of 100 years in the game and you have a new

flying

bee that It can be deployed using a tablet that lives in the car. Look at this, connect why why. Fie and the new

flying

bee appears, how cool is that now at Rolls-Royce says the Spirit of Ecstasy was actually quite desirable and people tried to steal them a lot, let's see what happens, we stole this, yeah, how cool is that.

The rear of the car is less impressive, but I really like the lights in the shape of these muscular haunches with a very distinctive crease. They are also a nice touch as are these huge 22-inch wheels and the vents in the shape of the sides if Bentley were trying to make a car with enormous presence, they have absolutely nailed it, obviously you won't spend much time looking at the exterior, it's the interior that will really dictate how luxurious the Flying Spur is and it's lovely here, first of all, these seats. they are glorious, they actually recline and have a couple of pillows built in, they are actually more comfortable than the pillows on my bed, that's really lovely, there is also a seat in the middle with its own headrest, although I have never figured out how to do that . up, so you're probably never going to use that seat, to be honest, what you're going to use is this, look at this, an armrest, it's not just any armrest, oh no, it has room for two cup holders of course, some storage, a pair of USB. ports and a 12 volt outlet, but behind the armrest is a refrigerator, of course, like a refrigerator with enough room for a couple of bottles of the best Carver plus co-op blenders, on top of that you also get this awesome detachable tablet that I showed you .

Right off the bat, what it does is allow you to deploy the hood emblem, but also control various functions, including media playback, the amazing sound system, by the way, which actually comes with a pair of wireless headphones so not everyone passengers can hear. the same music at the same time if you don't want to, it also has control of the massage function you have five different programs and five different intensity levels you always arrive at your destination you feel refreshed you also have blinds on both sides mirror that folds so you can put on your makeup, but that's old school, you don't need to do that, you have a couple of detachable tablets that have a mirror app, so you basically tap on the Bentley mirror app and see yourself in real time. the screen reminds you how successful and rich you are and how poor everyone else is and then there's the front, the centerpiece of which is this amazing three-way rotating screen that shows the navigation and main menu on a panel and on a panel separate. outside air temperature, a compass and stopwatch, or a completely blank third panel, but when you want to keep things simple, there are plenty of nice touches, but also some that I think are less nice.

The door cards have a unique 3D courtship effect. First, they look good, but they feel a little cheap. The carpets are not as plush as they could be. The ventilation controls aren't as silky smooth as I'd like and there are a few touches that are almost tacky to my eyes anyway. Because? For example, would you need the first edition motif written on each seat back and door seal backed by various first edition Union Jack flags? It's excessive, although fortunately everything is optional. Having said all that, the Flying Spur is nice, we can put a big tick in the luxury box, but what about Bentley's second claim that the Flying Spur offers the ultimate in refinement?

Well, let's define refinement. When we talk about refinement, generally what we mean in cars is silence, comfort and ride quality, and in terms of silence, this is exceptional. They have put so much sound deadening material in this car that you can barely hear anything. I would say there is a real risk of falling asleep. Now it sounds comforting. Brilliant. These seats are amazing. You can drive for hours and miles. in the end and you end up feeling more refreshed at your destination than when you first got in the car. The only thing that could be improved maybe is the headrests, they're not that bad, but they don't have amazing pillows. that you sit in the back seats in terms of ride quality again, the cars are exceptional, it has a really interesting suspension, it runs on air springs which means it does a fantastic job of eliminating most of the imperfections in the road, There are four different driving modes, Comfort Sport b4.

Bentley, which offers a nice mix between those two and custom, which lets you choose your own settings now in comfort mode on an open, flowing B-road like this, drives phenomenally well, feels like a yacht floating in the ocean, without matter what is in the city. probably with a slightly too soft spring. There have been a few times when going over speed bumps I've heard the nose slam into the asphalt just because the springs are too soft. The Sporty Sport is possibly too firm for everyday wear, perhaps. It's a bit un-Bentley, so you tend to leave it in Bentley's B mode, which gives you a nice Goldilocks compromise in whatever mode you're in, although the Flying Spur doesn't suit it very well. the bumps, there's a lot of unsprung mass in this car, it has huge brakes, huge wheels and the suspension just can't handle it, what it means is that when you go over bumps you end up feeling a lot of shaking in the car, it's good, but not quite . rolls-royce well, whatever mode you're in, the Bentley generally offers an impressive ride that strikes an excellent balance between comfort and sportiness, and a big part of that is Bentley's stylish 48-volt active anti-roll technology, Well, most people don't know what.

The 48 volt active anti-roll technology is so I'm going to show you these, as you guessed, eggs, lots of eggs, and this is the flying Bentley. It stretches very attractively. I want to stay with me in this. What I'm going to do is put my eggs on the hood and go for a drive. If I'm wrong about this car's level of comfort and refinement, then the Flying Spur is about to become the world's most expensive omelette maker. look at this, I mean, I never had any doubt, but I'm really doing what at 37 miles an hour right now the eggs are completely fine oh, a car is coming, don't worry, the eggs are safe.

I have to be careful approaching your intersection if you brake too hard, that's when you get hit in the face with an egg. See how fast we can go at the national speed limit of 60 miles per hour. Oh, I can see anything that appears slightly. I think that's not the car, it's just the aerodynamic effect of the air sucking the egg up, but the suspension is doing its job. The anti-roll system is absolutely impeccable, look at this thing that happens on it and you, there is no drama, there are no problems, easy, oh yes, we have lost 1 of 30, big deal, we will eat a smaller omelet, it is as if the list hits the brakes, step on the brake, step the brake, I'm probably wondering what the hell now.

I could go into a very deep and meaningful explanation of how this all works, but here's what you need to know. The Flying Spur has an electric motor on each axle that can turn the stabilizer bars back and forth, the end result is that during cornering the car stays flat enough to prevent even this lot from flying, so that It's the egg test which it passes with flying colors, the other test the Flying Spur has to pass to prove it can compete with the best is the Rolls-Royce test, you may have seen this before and it basically involves balancing a coin of a pound on the motor, in theory it should be able to balance that without it moving, look at it's doing it right now.

In theory you should be able to speed this up without the coin dropping at all. That didn't work at all. There is actually a very good reason why the Flying Spur failed the Rolls-Royce test: it is because it is not a Rolls-Royce and although the engine in this one is mild Bentley it is also tuned to be Bentley powerful sport mode control launch hit the brake hit the accelerator watch it bounce off the limiter and we're far away that feels like falling off a cliff this car uses a 6 liter w12 engine which is basically like gluing two pieces together to generate a huge power 635 horsepower metric and 900 900 new to me like torque which is more than most

supercar

s.

Bentley says this won't do anything until 62 in 3.8 seconds 3.8 can you believe that and we? We've actually done our own independent testing of this to check if that's true, which we'll put in a separate video when that slide can click here to see it happen, but I don't think I'm giving that away as well. A lot when I tell you this thing is incredibly fast and defies physics, and I'm not just talking about north to 60. If you find a stretch of road long enough, straight enough and legal enough, this will continue until it arrives. 207 miles per hour is such an impressive thing, the sound especially most of the time the cars are completely silent but when you are pushing you can hear the w12 come to life and purr, it really is a sweet sounding engine that thuds raucously. , not too loud, but Sounds good now, you might think that because it's such a big old barge that it could use an old school torque converter, none of that, the Flying Spur actually uses a dual-clutch transmission 8 speed, there are a pair of paddles. behind the wheel and allows the car to shift very quickly and gives you exactly the gear you want when you want it it actually feels like a car to the driver this thing the brakes are surprisingly good but let's face it, they are I'm not going to challenge the laws of physics, so you have to look very far in front of you to make sure an emergency stop situation isn't coming up, but who for, if you find yourself in a little trouble and have to slow down some, yeah , they work very well, the overall agility of this car is also amazing, the 48 volt active roll stabilization works very well there, when you take a corner everything goes completely flat and works like magic if anything, you could say it works too Well, some people have reported feeling a little motion sick in cars with this system and sometimes I get the same kind of feeling and I think that's because of the disconnect between reality and expected expectations.

The car turns, but the reality is that it doesn't. What's really impressive is the fact that the car seems to shrink around you, it's absolutely huge, but when you push it it doesn't feel as big as it should and part of this is due to the fact that it uses rear wheel steering which can turn. in the opposite direction to the front wheels at low speed for better maneuverability or in the same direction at high speeds for better stability. It could be a great luxury. beast, but handles incredibly well overall. I think they did a phenomenal job with the Flying Spur at the beginning of this movie.

I set out to try to find out whether or not this could compete with the Rolls Royce, but in the end I think the comparisons are probably unfair The Rolls Royce are built for comfort they are built to float nothing floats like a rolls-royce this included however it What the Flying Spur does isgiving you character that not many cars can match if you like being driven As much as you like to take the bull by the horns and drive yourself, ultimately there are plenty of cars that do a better job than you.