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MILEAGE 17,994 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT In facelifted form, is this SUV still the pinnacle of British luxury motoring? This Bentayga V8 S exists because customers demanded even more dynamic performance fr

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The new Bentayga Speed is the “pinnacle of Bentley luxury”, says Top Gear magazine. It used to be that the “majestic saloon” was the “most sumptuous” Bentley you could buy. Not any more. That accolade

IT’S A FAMILIAR ROUTINE: THE ENGINE’S Sport mode is selected, the ESC system is slackened off. Left foot hard on the brake, right foot fully down on the throttle pedal until you feel it reach its stop

Adrift mode and titanium plumbing from a respected but extroverted Slovenian supplier are not what we commonly associate with Bentley, or indeed SUVs. Then again, Bentley has successfully gone racing

I “’m a long way from a Bentley,” joked a guest recently on Radio 2 in a conversation with Sara Cox on his mode of transport to the studio. That quip sums up quite neatly Bentley’s positioning: the pi