Comments on: What’s Wrong With This Picture: Bentley Out Of Shape Edition

By: Rokovak

Rokovak — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:05:42 +0000

Looks like the Avanti is making a comeback.

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123059/2156496/2156497/070613_GB_AvantiEX.jpg

By: NickR

NickR — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:00:48 +0000

Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuun!!!! It’s ‘The Car’!!!

By: commando1

commando1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:30:22 +0000

It doesn’t matter what everone here thinks. Didn’t anyone read the memo: China is the world’s fastest growing market?
It’s perfect (for them).

By: discoholic

discoholic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:10:26 +0000

It sort of looks like those batteries of oversized supplementary headlights they welded to the front of Mini Coopers to do the Monte Carlo Rallye.

This is obviously part of a de-vulgarising strategy: let’s make the new car so traffic-stoppingly ugly that English Premier League footballers and other nouveau-riche riffraff won’t even think about buying it. Lord and Lady Gloucestershire will be so pleased.

By: V6

V6 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:35:55 +0000

that’s not seriously the new Bentley is it? seriously?

By: NulloModo

NulloModo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:57:52 +0000

It pains me to see what could have been a great custom job ruined by that incessant voice to just add one more bit. The upper grill looks great, stately and sporty, perfect for the Bentley mythos. The lower grill ruins it, looks unfinished, ill-fitting, and out of place.

By: Durishin

Durishin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:44:26 +0000

True dat, Wolfie.

True dat!

By: werewolf34

werewolf34 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:56:30 +0000

What’s wrong?

There is no gangsta rapper endorsing it in a video

By: paul_y

paul_y — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:57:17 +0000

Holy hell, it looks like a Mitsuoka Galue. Google it, or watch some Top Gear.

By: TwoTwenty

TwoTwenty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:44:29 +0000

I kinda like it, and I’m sure this picture is not doing the car any justice. And I hate playing the “this looks like that” game, but I will have to say that it reminds me of this truck.

By: no_slushbox

no_slushbox — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:52:48 +0000

re:talkstoanimals:

Those side effects are why steroids are illeagal.

By: talkstoanimals

talkstoanimals — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:40 +0000

Or a flounder.

By: talkstoanimals

talkstoanimals — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:25 +0000

The front end looks vaguely like a Morgan Aero 8 on steroids.

By: Runfromcheney

Runfromcheney — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:54:58 +0000

For a minute I thought it was a Chinese rip off of a Bentley….

By: Carzzi

Carzzi — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:51:53 +0000

I really like this design iteration. The lines are just right. Opulent reubenesque voluptuosity. The Blackhawk reinterpretation is spot-on.

By: no_slushbox

no_slushbox — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:09:52 +0000

re:twotone:

Really it makes the big Bentley look less like a 300C. The 300C is has a boxy front end like Rolls Royce and Bentley sedans started having with the 1980 redesign. And have had all the way to the current big Bentleys – the Arnage, and particularly the Brooklands and Azure.

The above, on the other hand, looks like an uglier version of the Kia Amanti.

My hope is that this is not the new big Bentley (i.e. Arnage) but instead an updated version of the single digit production Bentley State Limousine that the Brits use to transport that old woman they obsess over.

However, the low roofline and the timing (a new big Bentley is being teased) indicate that I am probably wrong, and that the “real” Bentleys will now be this ugly.

By: NickR

NickR — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:09:22 +0000

Argh, the guys who built the 70s era Stutz are back at it.

By: Andy Carter

Andy Carter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:59:10 +0000

Is that a character from Wallace and Grommit?

By: twotone

twotone — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:33:42 +0000

Nothing like making a Bentley look even more like a Chrysler 300C.

Twotone

By: superbadd75

superbadd75 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:25:52 +0000

Next Kia Optima?

By: no_slushbox

no_slushbox — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:25:18 +0000

They are trying to put the independent Chinese “luxury” auto brands out of business.

Usually the independent Chinese “luxury” auto brands take Rolls Royce and Bentley designs and come out with uglier knock-offs, but there is no way that the Chinese will be able to come out with an uglier knock-off of this.

By: midelectric

midelectric — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:59:52 +0000

Didn’t they use to make those front ends to put on your Beetle?