New 2024 Bentley Flying Spur Handsome And Well Proportioned
In the company of the latest Flying Spur, seems a crying shame. No doubt about it, this is a mightily handsome car. Check out the proportions: the sense that the front wheels have been pulled forward, the windscreen sloping back in sympathy, the way it sits on its wheels. It’s a bloody good bit of design. And you might not have said that about a Flying Spur before.
Well, not since the badge first appeared on a four-door back in 1957. It was an element of design director Arthur Taylor Johnstone’s heraldic crest that gave the car its name. The plate came back in 2005, adorning a saloon version of the first-generation Continental GT. It wasn’t a natural looker, yet Bentley sold 37,000 of them. But that late Noughties Flying Spur, even after it was facelifted in 2013, was a car for the driven, not the driver. It both looked and felt too nose heavy. It was better to sit in the back. Absolutely. Perhaps that’s why the Bentayga has been given the chauffeuring reins: buy a Spur and you might just end up relegating your driving staff to gardening duties.
There are three engines to choose from and talking you from biggest to smallest feels like an Ascent of Man illustration. Let’s call it the evolution of luxury powertrains. Top of the tree, for a little while longer, is the 6.0-litre W12 that’s starred in most Bentleys since the original Conti GT revolutionised how we view the brand back in 2003. It isn’t long for this world; the last orders bell has tolled and you might need to shoot the landlord an endearing wink in order to sneak a deposit down for one of the outgoing Flying Spur Speeds which host a 626bhp tune of this wonderfully smooth power unit.
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