New 2020 Bentley Bentayga unites line-up with radical facelift

This is the facelifted Bentley Bentayga. The British firm’s most important advertising product has been presented a radical redesign to provide it in line with the most up-to-date Continental GT and Flying Spur.

Every single panel at the front end of the Bentayga has been altered. It gets a more substantial, more upright grille with new twin LED Matrix headlights impressed not just by the Continental and Flying Spur, but also crystal reduce glassware. The new lights sit 30mm better than ahead of, raising the nose to give the front end a more imposing appear.

Beneath sits a new front bumper meant to exude a sportier character, when little improvements down the sides incorporate a extended side vent on possibly front wing and tweaked doorway sills. 

Modifications all around the back again are more spectacular and mark out the Bentayga’s evolution towards the brand’s most up-to-date structure language. The tailgate grows in width and improvements in condition, with the licence plate repositioned onto the rear bumper. The taillights adjust entirely from the rectangular established on the pre-facelift car to adopt the oval condition employed on the most up-to-date Continental GT. The lattice design signature evokes the headlights, meant to give the rear lights a “jewellery-like appearance” when they are lit.

Scaled-down improvements at the rear incorporate more substantial exhaust pipes and a new rear spoiler. Elsewhere, a new established of 22-inch wheels are obtainable together with the current quartet of models, two new paint colours have been included to the possibilities list, and a new Blackline exterior offer can change all the chrome components with gloss black trim.

Style improvements inside generally centre all around new cabin technology, nevertheless the doorway trim structure has been transformed too. The centre console has been redesigned and now accommodates a new 10.nine-inch touchscreen show. The program is jogging new software program, and features wi-fi Apple CarPlay for the first time. Android Vehicle is also provided. Elsewhere in tech, the instrument panel is now wholly electronic, when in the back again, passengers are handled to a more substantial touchscreen remote pill for controlling various rear seat features. 

The connectivity ports transfer to the USB-C typical, the Bentayga gains its own built-in SIM card, furnishing a standalone knowledge link, and a wi-fi smartphone charging pad has been included. 

The inside is continue to obtainable in three configurations. The Bentayga is available as a four seater with two whole sizing rear seats, a five seater with a bench next row, and as a seven seater with a pair of folding seats in the boot. Four seater variations gain from a bit of further kneeroom in comparison with ahead of, and the capacity to recline the seats 100mm additional. A recently redesigned next row bench implies the five seat Bentayga’s rear passengers can recline a minimal additional too.

From start, the only variation of the Bentayga will be the V8, which makes use of a turbocharged four.-litre petrol motor creating 542bhp. Benltey suggests -62mph can take four.5 seconds, when major speed is quoted as 180mph. Push is despatched to all four wheels by means of an eight-speed automatic gearbox. 

Chassis improvements are minimal to a 20mm wider rear monitor. Bentley suggests this adjust works not only together with the new, wider appear to the rear end, but also cuts down steering work and enhances steering response, too. In whole, the Bentayga fields eight selectable driving modes if buyers choose for the optional All-Terrain pack.

Bentley has also verified that a facelifted variation of the 6.-litre W12 Bentayga Speed is coming, when a 6-cylinder petrol plug-in hybrid product is also in the works. Diesel stays absent from the line-up.

Q&A with Stefan Sielaff – Director of Style, Bentley

Q: How does the new Bentayga unite the household from a structure stage of check out?

A: I feel it is generally about the front with the matrix grille and headlights, and the crystal reduce topic. This is now 1 genetic code of the portfolio for these a long time, but clearly we will carry on – we have shown by now in the XP100 GT and the Bacalar how things will produce. 

I feel it is also all around the specifics, like how the wheels appear like. It is usually this equilibrium among sport and magnificence that helps make a Bentley a Bentley. This is a thing we do fairly very similar on the Continental or Bentayga, it is the household feeling we consider to create. 

Q: Do new releases outside of this car occur with a new structure language?

A: I feel we will do. When we discuss about new types we will do some bigger methods. I feel this is rounding up 1 assertion which I feel will be pretty outstanding for the coming a long time. And then what’s subsequent we will have to focus on. It is a minimal too early now, we have to experiment. 

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