CONTINENTAL SHIFT
Stepping out of a Bentley Flying Spur recently, I was struck by the thought that whatever you might think about the automotive choices of Premier League footballers, the Volkswagen Group has done a pretty effective job of returning Bentley to the spirit of its glory years.
The modern-day Spur is simply unique, its W12 engine providing a savage thrust the equal of pretty much no other large saloon, yet all delivered with impossible levels of refinement which makes you wonder why anybody would ever bother with a cramped, impractical supercar.
The general complexity of the modern cars may be light years away from Bentley’s 1950s cars but there is a parallel between the modern-day Spur and the R-Type Continental we have here, since at launch it was quite simply the fastest four-seater luxury saloon in the world.
Basis of the car was, unsurprisingly, the R-Type which was essentially a facelifted version of the MkVI,
