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2008 Bentley Brooklands Coupe |
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Big two-door captures company’s racing heritage |
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Not content with its immensely successful Continenta=
l GT
coupe, Bentley will build a flagship coupe variant of the Azure sedan—=
;and
draw on 100 years of British racing heritage by naming the car the Brooklan=
ds.
Brooklands the car commemorates Bentley’s racing exploits in the 1920=
s at
Brooklands the racetrack, which celebrates its centennial this year.
“Bentley’s proud sporting pedigree, forged by the exploits of t=
he
immortal Bentley Boys on the famous Brooklands racetrack in the 1920s, was =
the
inspiration for our coupe,” says Bentley chairman Franz-Josef Paefgen.
“The Brooklands captures all the style, power and splendor of that
era.”
Revealed at the
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Th=
e luxury
four-seater features a higher-output version of the Azure’s hand-bu=
ilt,
6.75-liter, twin-turbocharged V8, ev=
olution
of the venerable Crewe-built V8 launched in 1959 as a 6.23-liter unit that
produced 200 hp and 295 lb-ft
co=
vering
the entire expanse from windshield to rear window. The interior is intend=
ed
to feel expansive and
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