Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Bentley’s $180,000 SUV

Bentley SUV


Recession not getting you down? Kids demanding iPads built into their SUV? The wife insists on sitting in diamond-encrusted leather seats? Bentley has an SUV for you.

The EXP 9 F concept has a 6.0 liter V-12 engine and horsepower that will be in the 600s. All-wheel drive will be standard, and a plug in hybrid will be optional.

Porsche proved the SUV market was ripe for an upscale model 10 years ago when they introduced the Cayenne in 2002. At 48,000 models sold in Europe in 2011, it accounted for half of Porsche’s sales in the region.

North America is still the primary market for European luxury car makers, but China is gaining traction. A third of Bentley’s overall sales of their Continental GT model were in the Far East country.

Bentley hired two former Porsche executives, Wolfgang Durheimer and Rolf Frech to head their new SUV division.

Lamborghini Motors will debut a new SUV at the Beijing motor show in April and Maserati will tune it’s Kubang SUV concept into a production model available next year. The EXP 9 F will cost around $235,000.

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