After slightly teasing, Bentley has revealed the new Bentayga Extended Wheelbase, which is precisely what it says on the lid: an extended-wheelbase model of its standard SUV. The new providing is billed because the model’s new luxury flagship and extends the product vary to 5 fashions, with others being the traditional Bentayga, Continental GT, Continental GT Convertible and Flying Spur.
Developed to the tune of a 9-determine funding, the Bentayga EWB will go on sale within the fourth quarter of this 12 months and the corporate expects the new model to account for 45% of all Bentayga gross sales.
In phrases of dimensions, the Bentayga EWB measures 5,322 mm lengthy, making it 180 mm longer than the standard-wheelbase Bentayga. The elevated size is all within the rear doorways, which additionally sees the wheelbase go as much as 3,175 mm from 2,995 mm. The consequence is an “exceptionally luxurious rear cabin area,” the corporate mentioned, and it additionally claims that its new model has a “larger cabin space than any other luxury competitor.”
As standard, the Bentayga EWB comes with a 4+1 seating configuration with two outer rear seats and an “occasional” center seat, the latter able to accommodating a 3rd grownup or folded down to present entry to a hatch for skis.
The entrance passenger compartment is an identical to the standard-wheelbase model and stays a nice place to be, nevertheless it is the rear the place you’ll need to spend essentially the most time if you wish to be correctly pampered.
For a begin, the 2 outer rear seats talked about function 16 methods of adjustment, heating, air flow in addition to 5 particular person therapeutic massage programmes. Powered doorways additionally be certain that you don’t pressure your self when coming into or exiting the car.
The HVAC system is improved too, because the rear air flow solely prompts when rear occupants are detected to cut back rear cabin fan noise. The rear cabin additionally will get its personal air ionisation system to cut back airborne particulates so occupants breathe cleaner.
When ordered with the Bentley Airline Seat Specification, the seats achieve additional features like the flexibility to recline to 40 levels, controllable by way of a handheld touchscreen gadget or switches positioned within the door pocket space.
Other features that include the choice embody Seat Auto Climate, the place a passenger merely wants to pick their desired temperature setpoint and the automobile effectively repeatedly monitor and modify its methods to take care of consolation.
Meanwhile, Postural Adjustment makes use of new thigh and shoulder pockets, plus extra lumbar therapeutic massage pockets, to subtly but repeatedly change the form of the seat to ease strain factors across the physique, stopping lifeless spots and fatigue construct up. The six unbiased strain factors can present 177 changes each three hours to make sure that seat consolation is by no means compromised, whatever the size of the journey.
If that isn’t sufficient, the Bentley Airline Seat Specification additionally provides additional cushion and backrest bolster adjustment, cushion extension, electrical headrest peak adjustment and a deployable footrest to the again of the entrance passenger seat to make sure essentially the most VIP therapy doable. Attention is additionally paid to the rear door and centre armrests, each of that are heated.
Bentley additionally affords four- and 5-seat configurations, nevertheless it stopped wanting going as much as seven seats – out there for the standard Bentayga – as buyer suggestions confirmed that house and luxury are what Bentayga EWB homeowners will need, not a full-on individuals provider.
With the Four Seat Comfort Specification, the center seat that comes with the standard configuration is omitted in favour of a rear centre console between the 2 rear seats. This gives extra stowage and two additional USB charging sockets, and when the Mulliner Console Bottle Cooler is specified, a totally built-in drinks cooler (for a 750 ml bottle) and two handcrafted Cumbria Crystal flutes are added.
Typical of a Bentley, the Bentayga EWB’s inside is trimmed in luxurious supplies which are utilized in meticulous trend to make sure the ultimate end is worthy of the asking value. This consists of the diamond quilting on the upholstery, complete ambient lighting (together with on the doorways), copious quantities of soundproofing, ample trim choices (as much as 24 billion) and the Metal Overlay in Veneer function.
The final merchandise is an elective function that was beforehand used on Continental GT Mulliner derivatives and is now being utilized for the primary time on Bentayga collection manufacturing. Seen on the dashboard and all 4 doorways, it consists of particular person brushed steel badges simply 0.07 mm thick which are utilized on high-quality veneer by way of a photograph-etching course of. At launch, Bentley affords two enhanced specs – Azure and First Edition – as base factors earlier than additional personalisation.
As for the outside, it seems to be just about like a facelifted Bentayga, albeit with a lot longer rear doorways and the vertical vane grille impressed by the Flying Spur. Less instantly apparent is the repositioned panoramic sunroof that is moved rearwards by 125 mm.
On the mechanical aspect of issues, the Bentayga EWB is powered by the model’s show 4.0 litre twin-turbo V8 with 550 PS and 770 Nm of torque. The mill is paired with an eight-velocity automated transmission and all-wheel drive, permitting for a zero to 100 km/h dash time of 4.5 seconds and a high velocity of 290 km/h.
The carmaker consists of its Dynamic Ride 48-volt lively anti-roll management and Electronic All Wheel Steering methods as standard, the latter offering a turning circle which is really smaller than that of the standard wheelbase Bentayga by 7%.
