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Bentley Bentayga Speed

Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025 12:00 AM

Bentley's go-faster Bentayga derivative swaps W12 shove for V8 gargle and more besides A drift mode and titanium plumbing from a respected but rather extroverted Slovenian supplier are not what we commonly associate with SUVs, but this is the Bentley Bentayga Speed, after all.And Bentley has successfully gone GT3 racing with the improbable, 2.3-tonne Continental GT and once enlisted Juha Kankkunen to fire a bio-ethanol-powered, rag-top Conti Supersports to more than 200mph on a frozen stretch of the Baltic Sea. So nobody can say the company doesn’t have a bit of an unpredictable streak.The main thing here is that, compared with the previous Bentayga Speed, the 6.0-litre W12 engine is out, its 626bhp and 664lb ft being supplanted by a lighter 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 with more power and only a fraction less torque.Performance is monstrous – think 193mph and a BMW M5 Touring-beating 0-60mph time – yet the suspension calibration in Comfort mode is supposedly as per the regular Bentaya, so on paper this car should still have manners. With a starting price of £219,000 (with an awful lot of head room for optional spend), the Speed slots into the range between the standard V8 Bentagya and the Bentayga EWB.You can most easily tell it apart from the others by its vast 23in wheels (optional, but most owners will have surely them), which facilitate 440mm carbon-ceramic front brake discs – the largest of any production car. Those and the big spoiler.