Comments on: 2008 Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed Review

By: Frontman

Frontman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:30:20 +0000

Good article, well written and simple non cliche’ed explanations giving both information and passion.
Rating A- (leaving room for you to improve ;-))
Thank you & keep up the standard.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:26:03 +0000

its not that thirsty, the VE SS uses 14.4 l/100km and it produces less power and has alot less weight to pull around.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:46:53 +0000

Actually Crouchy, yes. It’s not about being able to afford petrol, because even though everybody complains about it, I think it’s still very cheap for what it is and does but no one, no matter how rich wants bad range in a nice comfortable car. I would hate to go out for the day and have to fill the thing up five times and I don’t think many would want to.

By: Crouchy

Crouchy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:22:18 +0000

Alex – At 400K do you really think the buyer of this car cares about fuel economy???

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:35:56 +0000

Frugal One, you can’t buy the Speed version for 35,000 pounds, only the standard one and even then, you would be lucky to have a choice of even three different cars for that price and they would all have well over 100,000 miles on the clock.
The thing that I always like about this car is that somehow the Rolls Royce Phantom is currently styled to look like a car you should be driven in, not a car you should be driving but this is a drivers car and is styled that way. it’s almost as quiet and comfortable as the Rolls Royce Phantom too and I think it would take a lot for me to get a much, much more expensive RR over this fantastic car.
Fuel consumption is pretty impressive but like I’ve said before, love those wheels. I would still buy the coupe before this though as the standard Flying Spur is a very wafty car and I feel the Speed pack changes it too much, I’ve read the same thing in a lot of other reviews aswell.

By: FRUGAL_ONE

FRUGAL_ONE — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:06:29 +0000

*****PRIMO!*****

Once again a VW Group product………

Anyway, a superb car & review, would be my daily drive if i had the coin, cannot think of anything better.

You can buy them for GBP35,000 in UK [2nd hand]

Till then, back to my NANO

Cheers,

F-0