Bentley Continental Flying Star

[Motor]

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Touring Superleggera Bentley Continental Flying Star (http://www.roadandtrack.com/auto-shows/geneva/advanced-coverage-touring-superleggera-bentley-continental-flying-star)
The famed Italian coachbuilder creates a shooting brake.

This all-new show car starts with a Continental GTC and converts it into what the Brits call a shooting brake or a 2-door wagon. In America, you might call it a Chevy Nomad. No matter what you call it, the Bentley Continental Flying Star is a stunning work that retains the sleek styling of the 2-door model while adding the functionality of a larger load space and a rear tailgate. The rear of the car features two full-size folding seats that can accommodate adults or be flipped down to create an open cargo space measuring more than 6 ft. long.

In reshaping the Continental into its shooting brake configuration, Touring Superleggera uses metal for the rear fenders, and aluminum for the door skins and the power rear tailgate. Complementing the stunning exterior shape is a completely revamped interior using high quality materials for a custom look.

The chassis is based on the Continental GTC and offers the twin-turbo 6.0-liter W-12 in two states of tune, the standard 560-bhp model or the 610-bhp Speed version. Like all Continentals, the Flying Star is equipped with all-wheel drive and a self-adjusting air suspension. Touring Superleggera has received European homologation for a limited run of 20 Flying Stars.
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Those drawings don't look promising.

[GSBoek]

X2

[Motor]

Update!

PRESS RELEASE (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/02/geneva-2010-touring-superleggera-flying-star-is-our-kind-of-coa/#continued)
Flying Star in 2010 - the Bentley challenge

The Bentley Continental GT range set innovative and high standards for a new generation of very sophisticated Grand Tourers. As such, this model triggered the imagination of automotive designers and coach builders elsewhere. The GTC convertible, featuring a very rigid platform, proved to be a fully congruent basis to Touring Superleggera's plans for the new Flying Star.

The new project required the modification of a number of external dimensions starting from the car's A-pillar backwards: extended roof line, a wider section including the doors, new aluminium door skins and a new all-aluminium, electrically operated tailgate. It also includes a completely new rear compartment with two foldable rear seats and a variable loading space.

This long list of modifications and transformations had to be paired with, and to remain fully compatible to the basic car's technical layout and components. Given the sophistication of the basic car, a new challenge was laid out for Touring's craftsmen and engineers. The final result proves that special coach building can live on well into the 21st. century working with respect to the original manufacturers.

Touring Superleggera is particularly proud of the fact that the complete productive cycle of the special coach building process was realized in their workshop near Milano. Modern body engineering went hand in hand with traditional handicraft skills, maintaining the highest quality directives for the final product.

The Bentley Continental Flying Star by Touring inherits the chassis of the Continental GTC. The 6-liter, W12 engine is available either in the 560HP version which delivers 650NM of torque at 1600rpm or the GTC Speed variant which delivers a massive 750Nm from 610HP. The car exhibited in Geneva Motor Show features the GCT Speed specifications.
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Like anyone is going to buy that to haul crap.

[mrluilou]

marc will not approve, looks like a damn dodge magnum

[boothten]

what the fvck just happened to my eyes, I think they're throwing up

[Sty09]

Someone hand me a garbage can.

[many]

what the fvck just happened to my eyes, I think they're throwing up
:laugh::laugh:
Fvckenright!

[alfy]

not my taste, but cmon i wouldnt mind driving a bently!!! :fawk:

[celicayounggun]

my review of the interior is sitting at the bottom of my toilet

[terrj]

http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/cannot_be_unseen.jpg

[GSBoek]

That's one expensive dog hearse.