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BLOWN BENTLEYS

BENTLEY MULSANNE TURBO (1982-1985)

Although the 1980s saw most of the world’s major car makers experimenting with turbocharged models, few managed to transform their fortunes quite so dramatically as Bentley. At the start of the decade, Bentley was in danger of becoming almost an irrelevance, its Mulsanne being little more than a badge-engineered Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit that sold in pitifully small numbers. Then in 1982 came the Mulsanne Turbo – the marque’s first turbocharged model, offering an exciting glimpse into the future.

Power was now just short

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