The 2020 Bentley Flying Spur Is a $275,000 Ultra-Luxury Sedan

This is the new

2020

Bentley Flying Spur and it is Bentley's newest

sedan

, it is powerful, beautiful and of course, insanely expensive. This one has a sticker price of just under 275,000, but with that price comes immense, opulent

luxury

and features, and today I'm going to review this car and show you everything. I borrowed this

flying

spur

from oguera san diego which is

bentley

san diego the

bentley

dealership here in the san diego area of ​​course bentley san diego has all the latest bentley models the new continental gt. and gtc the bentayga and now this the new Flying Spur that is just starting to go on sale in dealerships across the country, so let's talk about the Flying Spur.

This car first went on sale in 2006 as the Continental Flying Spur. It was a four-door

sedan

version of the new Bentley Continental GT coupe, but as buyers' tastes shifted away from two-door cars, the Flying Spur quickly became more popular than the Continental GT, making Bentley split it into its own Flying Spur model for the 2014 model year and for

2020

the Flying Spur is completely redesigned to be an all-new car and while a v8 model is surely on the way in the future, right now you can only get it with a twin-turbo 12-cylinder engine that makes around 625 horsepower and around 665 pound-feet of torque, those are huge. numbers and send this car to 60 in 3.6 seconds and on to a top speed of 207 miles per hour, meaning this giant

luxury

sedan has a higher top speed than the Ferrari F40.

Consider that the other big news about the 2020 Flying Spur is that it's bigger than before, five inches longer than the previous model, which means more interior space and more room for crazy luxury items, so today I'll be reviewing this car and I'll show them to you first. I'll take you on a tour. of the new

flying

spur

and I'll show you all of its cool quirks and features, then I'll take it out on the road and drive it and then I'll give it a dig score. Okay, I'm going to start. the quirks and features of the new flying spur inside, which is truly beautiful, absolutely gorgeous, all the materials, the finishes, the style, the design, honestly this is one of the most beautiful car interiors I have ever been in in my entire life, it's just an incredible focus on perfection quality luxury I love it here it's gorgeous an example of something really cool look at this white area that starts in the passenger side footwell next to the glove box and then continues towards the passenger door panel and then continues to the seat on the pillar and then to the back seat, this same white trim on the interior is carried from the front to the side and back completely intact, everything is attached and beautiful and opulent, and the interior is simply incredible in this car and the next.

I want to talk about some of this car's particularly exciting opulent luxury features and that means starting with the center display. Now you look at the screen and it looks like a center screen like basically every other car, but you press this little button that says display and then it turns and suddenly it shows you dials instead of a screen and those dials show you the outside temperature, the compass on which direction you're heading and the last one is actually a stopwatch in case you want to take your Bentley out. on the race track, now you press the screen again and it shows you the screen again with all the infotainment controls as you would expect and you can just press it and watch it spin and spin and it's very addictive.

One thing I like is when it's on the panel with the gauges, you can see that the molding continues through the wood, aluminum, and black, so it almost looks like it's not a rotating panel, but just a part of the dash, and you don't even realize it can be rotated until it does its little trick now, interestingly, this panel can rotate a third way when you turn the car off, you can see it flips from whatever you have set it to to nothing , just a blank panel so no one can tell you have a screen. Here and then, when you start the car again, the panel returns to its place in the configuration you had before, so you have a rotating triangular display panel in the center of your Bentley, although this option is not actually free.

It costs an extra $6,400 for your little screen flippers, although it's worth noting that on this Bentley it was free as part of the 45,000 first edition package that celebrated some of the earliest examples of these flying spur models and then moved on to Other exciting luxury features I want to talk about this little switch on the center console to the right, you pull that switch and all the sun visors open and there are a lot of them, take a look and you can see that everything opens with the pull that switch on the rear so you can go from a completely private sun-blocked cocoon for your rear passengers to fully open with the push of a button, of course if you have all the sunshades open and want that privacy, just pull the shifter again and then everything is done. closes and then as you can see all the sunshades close and the cocoon in the back is completely in place and then another high end luxury feature, this car has heated and cooled seats of course, You can control them with These little buttons turn them on, nothing unusual there, but when you turn on the heated or cooled seats, a small icon appears on the center screen that gives you the option to turn on the automatic mode.

So what have we heard about automatic climate control? The car offers automatic in-seat climate control and if you turn on the automatic mode, it will warm or cool your butt depending on whether it feels like it's too hot or too cold. You don't even have to set your own heated or cooled seats in this car. It turns those things on depending on the temperature, and then another nice little touch on this center console is the temperature and fan speed dials. Now you can see this little dial adjusts the temperature, so I turn it and it changes the climate control temperature.

Pretty standard, but looking at these buttons on the center console you'll wonder how to change the fan speed, there's no separate dial for that, this is one of those things they've built into the screens, it's very annoying, well no , it turns out that you press this little button that looks like a fan and then the climate control temperature dial has temporarily become a fan speed dial. You can adjust it and it changes the fan speed. If you press the small fan button again, it goes back to the climate control temperature. check for one check two purposes and that allows them to clean up this center control stack and means they don't have to integrate this important function into some pretty cool on-screen menu and then go back to the controls on the center console.

Another one I like is the drive mode dial in the center, you can see the engine start/stop button, but it's surrounded by a dial that adjusts the drive mode. You can see that when you turn this dial it switches between the different drive modes printed above the dial I really like how they have integrated this and how the drive mode dial looks it is just beautiful with this glass look on the outside the same goes for with fan speed temperature adjustment dial this crystal look is much more luxurious beautiful appeal than you might think it should be a simple climate control and driving mode dial and in terms of beautiful finishes it is not stops there at all, it's everywhere on this car, great example, the stalks coming out of the steering column, look at this turn signal, it's so beautiful. the aluminum, the silver finish, the finish is this diamond screen just beautiful and the same goes for the wiper, absolutely beautiful look.

These are some of the best turn signals and wipers in the automotive industry and talking about high quality here on the door panel. You can see there is a very noticeable speaker, this is part of the name of the audio system that comes with this car for eighty eight hundred dollars extra over the standard sound system, almost nine thousand dollars for an upgraded stereo, but I suspect it sounds pretty good and then. Above I want to move on to the center screen to discuss some more luxurious features like the massaging seats. Your car probably doesn't have massaging seats.

This one has them and they have five different types of massages that you can get while you're there. just driving down the road and as if that wasn't enough, you can choose from five different massage intensities, not just on or off, but five different levels of massage intensity of this car, both for the driver and passenger seat, And speaking of seat comfort, The rear seats in this car are heated of course, no surprise there, but on the infotainment screen you can also set whether you want the armrest heating to turn on and off with the heated seats. so not only do you have a heated seat back there if you have that setup in place when you turn on the heated rear seat, you also get a heated rear armrest so your elbow and arm get warm in addition to your butt and another unique touch On this car, if you look towards the front, you can see there is a hood ornament with a big B up there which is the decorative version of the flying bee logo with wings.

The nice thing is that you can raise or lower it from the center screen, although Bentley doesn't call it raise or lower, but rather reveal and hide. fancier words that mean the same thing, but as you can see if you press hide the b logo retracts to the front, I guess making this car look a little more subtle goes unnoticed a little more than if the hood ornament was instead if you press reveal the opposite happens the hood ornament reappears and then everyone knows once again that you are driving a Bentley and the next two most notable elements on the front in this interior are the flag logo British in the passenger.

The side of the dash, except you can see the vertical part is number one, because this is a first edition model, as I mentioned some of the first flying spurs in this new body style that are all built roughly the same way with basically In each option, the other unusual detail up here is the front windows. You can see that the windows look pretty normal until you get to the front most point where there is a small additional window. I guess Bentley had to put that fixed piece here to make I'm sure the rest of the window can be lowered all the way and there isn't a part sticking out, but what a weird little thing that seems like an afterthought, it has to Being one of the smallest automotive windows in production today, what a strange piece and next we move on to the back seat where there is much more luxury and opulence, starting with the headrest pillows.

Take a look at these fluffy pillows. A normal headrest is not enough for luxury passengers in the back of a Bentley, so we got a pillow and then another thing you notice here immediately is that you have rear seat controls in the door, you can move the seat forward, towards back, the backrest forward or back, you can even move the headrest, but that's just the beginning of all the luxury, here, it goes into the middle of the back and it has a screen and this screen allows you to control several others seat elements. You can turn on the heated rear seats with the display, for example, or you can turn on the cooled rear seats, or you can turn on the rear massage. seats and has all the same massage options from front to back, so traveling as a back seat passenger in this car doesn't mean you get less of a massage, but this center screen can do a lot more than just monitor your seat. convenience, for one, you can drop the Bentley B hood ornament just like the head-up display, you can hide it or reveal it back here, you don't have to be a front seat passenger, the rear passengers can decide whether the hood ornament go up or down and continue from there, you can use this rear screen to change the interior ambient lighting, color, intensity and not just for the rear seats but for the entire car, you can use this rear screen to change the media, then, what radio station or music player? you're listening, you can adjust that back here, you can use this rear screen for navigation if you want to enter a navigation destination back here and then send it to the front screen so your driver knows where to take you, you can do that. using this little screen on the back and check this out, this little screen on the back also allows you to control all the blinds like that switchwhich I showed you in the front, well here you can open or close all the blinds in the back with this screen and you can do it individually, you can go to each blind, open it or close it if you want on this screen, so this screen basically It provides full functionality, the only thing it really can't do is turn the car's security systems on or off.

That's left to the driver, but everything else you can do in front you can also do in the back here, and by the way, it's worth noting that you don't have to enter the screen to adjust the blinds; There are easier controls for most of them. One I want to highlight is the overhead sunshade because this car has a giant glass sunroof. On the outside you can see that there are only two large glass panels over the entire passenger compartment, the front one opens like a traditional sunroof but the rear one is fixed. instead, but you can press these buttons on the rear roof to open or close the shade over this panel depending on exactly how much sun you want to get into your rear seat chauffeured experience and then a few other notable elements back here back here you They also have mirrors that can be deployed from the ceiling.

You can open them and then you can watch yourself being chauffeured around, also next to the mirror in case you can't see yourself well enough in the built-in mirror. light, you have a little light that you can touch to provide more illumination back here, touch, touch, off, touch, you have one of those for both back seats and in case you don't have enough lighting back here, you also have two more of these lights in the center, touch, touch, off, same type of thing so you can have all kinds of different lighting on back here and then we move on to the center armrest, which is not really that special.

You can see there's some storage here if you open up the larger piece, some charging ports, and if you open up the smaller compartment you've got some cup holders, but nothing really unusual. You can also fold this center armrest back and then. you have a third seat in the back here, a middle seat and you also have a folding center headrest that you can extend in case the middle passenger wants a little more comfort like they might expect from a Bentley and then we move off the plane. Stimulate where one of its most impressive luxury touches is immediately noticeable, and that would be the headlights that look like crystals or jewels, incredibly distinctive, incredibly luxurious, opulent and cool, and precisely what you would expect a car like this to have another cool thing about . about these headlights when you look at them when the car is on and the running lights are on you can see they almost look like teeth around a circle it's a very distinctive daytime running headlight pattern and I really like how that look comes together . on these crystal jewelry headlights and by the way, the crystal in the headlights is not just on the headlights that you may have seen before, it's also on the hood ornament of that winged Bentley b.

The wings are also glass and you can see them. They have been carved to make feathers and give it an even more luxurious look for people who notice little details like that. Now, as for the styling of this car, I have to say that it has changed quite a bit from the outgoing model and the original steering wheel. and virtually all the changes seem to be aimed at making it look more majestic and elegant. For one thing, they've moved the front wheels forward to give it a sort of swept-back look that was previously a feature of larger Bentley sedans. the arnage the mulsanne and some older models we also have a much more upright grille with this car than the previous flying spur again more majestic more elegant now it is worth noting that this is not the most expensive sedan from bentley that honor goes to the mulsanne which is the flagship model of the range, but Bentley basically sells none of the overpriced Mulsannes in a very small market and part of me wonders if these design changes to make the flying ram look more majestic and elegant are being done with the goal of perhaps one day replacing the Molson.

Given that it doesn't really sell that well and that buyers' tastes have shifted away from sedans, then perhaps Bentley no longer feels it needs two large luxury sedans in its lineup and next we move to the rear of the wheel . and I want to talk about the trunk, although when you come back here you'll see that there's no immediately obvious way to open the trunk. You can use the key, this huge giant key that fits perfectly into this opulent luxury sedan, turn it over and see. a little button on the trunk, but that's the boring way to get into the trunk, the other way is a little more hidden, you see the Bentley logo back here, well, the little b in the center is the trunk release button the trunk, you press it and the trunk opens. small hidden trunk opener now when you come back here you will be able to see that the trunk is actually just a trunk, there is nothing particularly special, interesting or unusual about this trunk, it is just a reasonably large trunk, precisely what you would expect and finally We move under the hood. and you can see the engine now, as i mentioned, a v8 model is probably on the way, but right now this is all you can get, a turbocharged 12 cylinder, it's actually a w12, one of my favorite engines in the whole business of the car because of the way it makes power, the way it feels and how smooth and quiet it is.

I love this power plant and in this application it makes around 625 horsepower and 665 pound-feet of torque, as I mentioned, huge 0-60 numbers in 3.6 seconds and a top speed. 207 miles per hour, unreal numbers, this is basically supercar territory, but in a giant sedan that weighs 5,500 pounds, this is a huge vehicle that is incredibly fast thanks to this power plant and those are the quirks and features of the new 2020 bentley Flying Spur and Now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the new Flying Spur and as I mentioned in the video the first thing you notice when you walk in here is how beautiful this interior is, it's beautiful .

The materials are incredible. You get a Rolls Royce that costs twice as much in my opinion. It's not as nice as this car or as pretty. It's so beautiful that it really feels like a car that costs more and then you have the powertrain. and I love this six-liter biturbo w12. uh it just drags it moves this car a lot but quickly when you're in this car you realize it's very quiet and very comfortable and it feels so luxurious the ride quality is just fantastic. the bumps are totally absorbed the world around you just drowns you don't have to think about it the ride is very nice in this car this is just the most wonderful luxury car i like the rolls phantom i really do the phantom it's crazy but that's what you buy when you just want the craziest, most ridiculous opulent.

This is 95 of the ghost for 50 of the money, but some people want that last five percent. Okay, I'm going to step on some hair. It's so good, one of the great advantages of my job is being able to accelerate hard in the Bentley W12. It really is one of my favorite engines and has been for a while. It's just fantastic power that doesn't come on in a way that slaps you in the face but instead it comes on like a jet like a little more a little more and suddenly you're going really fast it's smooth it's all-encompassing it's probably my engine favorite in the car business The steering and handling of this car has always been pretty good.

I've always been relatively impressed. It has reasonably flat curves and is very linear. You turn the wheel very predictably in how it turns. The problem ends up being, of course, managing body roll. It's a very big car, it weighs 5500 pounds, a huge vehicle the size of most luxury SVS or larger, so it just won't handle very athletically, no matter what Bentley tries to do overall, this It's just a great car, it's just a great car in every way. Now sedans are slowing down and I'm a big proponent as well of Bentley's SUV, the bentega, but if you like sedans, this is kind of the gold standard of the opulent luxury sedan, these are pretty common in upscale areas, um despite their the price and the reason for this is that they are really good, it is a kind of car, you have an s class and you want to go to the next level of opulence, luxury and rarity, you buy one of these and then, above that, there is not much that you admire on the road, this is really one of the great cars and it is simply fantastic and the latest redesign has made it even better, so that is the 2020 Bentley Flying Spur, this is not the sedan Bentley's flagship luxury sedan, that honor goes to the larger Mulsanne, although sales of these have slowed to a trickle, this is the volume of Bentley, the Bentley that most people buy when they want a Bentley luxury sedan and is fabulous and now it's time to give the new Flying Spur a Doug score starting with In the categories and styling of the weekend, this is a good looking car and deserves a 6 out of 10.

Acceleration is 0-60 in 3.6 seconds and gets an 8 out of 10. Handling is excellent for a large sedan, but overall average and gets a 5 out of 10. The fun factor is okay, it's quick and pretty quick to change direction, but most of the fun comes from just driving a Bentley and it gets a 5 out of 10. the cool factor is decent, this is a cool car because it's new and special, although they will start to become quite common and it gets a 6 out of 10 for a Total weekend score of 30 out of 50. Following are the daily categories and features. It is very well equipped, although it is not enough for some.

Of the latest high-tech gadgets, it still easily gets an 8 out of 10. The comfort is excellent and it gets a 9 out of 10. Same deal with really excellent quality. I'm only concerned about long term reliability and it gets a 9 out of 10. Practicality is average for a car like this and it gets a 5 out of 10. Finally, this car offers a lot of value, but it's also expensive and going to lose value quickly . It gets a 6 out of 10 for a daily total. score of 37 out of 50. Added up and the excavated score is 67 out of 100, which puts it here against other

ultra

luxury cars I've reviewed, the Flying Spur falls short of the continental gt coupe, which does much better in the categories weekend and The Sport of Flight ties with the Bentega, which is probably its closest competitor.

Ultimately, this is an excellent, competent, truly beautiful luxury sedan and is a fantastic effort from Bentley.