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Bentley CEO: Rich People Felt Bad About Showing Off, Causing Drop in Sales

The Truth About Cars

People who buy cars from brands like Bentley aren’t generally concerned with things like recessions and the opinions of the masses, but the automaker thinks its customers are buying fewer expensive cars because they feel bad about showing off. Image: Bentley] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Bentley CEO Jumps Ship for Aston Martin

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Bentley's former CEO Adrian Hallmark has broken with the company after making remarks that sales were down due to wealthy people buying fewer luxury products over concerns that it might upset poorer people living in those markets. Bentley issued a surprise announcement that its longtime CEO had asked to leave the company just three days ago.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

Last week, on the day before Thanksgiving, a middle-aged couple in a Bentley met a fiery end under mysterious circumstances near the U.S.-Canada We know the victims names – Kurt Villani, 53, and his wife, Monica Villani, also 53 – and we know that they were in a Bentley Flying Spur (no jokes about the name, please).

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Corby answers the $456,000 question: Is the luxury-soaked Bentley Flying Spur the world’s most pointless plug-in hybrid?

EV Central

I don’t know about you, but when I picture climate warriors – the kind who’ll chain themselves to things, get arrested, become Senators and then realise that changing the system is about as effective as attempting to save polar bears by sleeping naked on ice – I don’t see them driving Bentleys that cost $456,000.

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Jaguar goes SUV-only as XE, XF and F-Type bow out in June | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Jaguar’s new era begins in 2025 with the introduction of a 600bhp electric four-seat GT car in the vein of the Porsche Taycan , which is thought to be followed a year later by a Bentley Bentayga -style luxury SUV and then a large luxury saloon.

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Turns out, Europeans love big ol’ SUVs as much as Americans do

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But SUVs took the lead even in the highest-priced performance segment, reports Automotive News Europe , with plug-in hybrid BMW XM taking first place with 3,142 sales, outselling the Lamborghini Urus and Bentley Bentayga. Electrek’s Take Where is the Citroen Ami when you need it? Amsterdam, London, and Copenhagen could be next.

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800-Volt EV Charging: The ?Other Palliative for Range Anxiety ???

Cars That Think

Car of the Year, and now a finalist for 2022 World Car of the Year—was designed by the talented Sangyup Lee, the Hyundai global design chief and former Bentley designer who also styled the reborn Chevrolet Camaro. In even-more-affordable, rear-wheel-drive form, they sneak over the magic 482-km (300-mile) mark in range.

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