They don't make 'em like the Brooklands anymore - here's how to buy the best in old-school Bentley.
Note for reference: car weight and power data are hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it’s wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive.When Volkswagen bought Bentley one of the first things VW boss Ferdinand Piech did was have the BMW engine taken out of the Arnage and the 6.75 ‘L’ V8 put in.
As with the power output, 5.3sec for the 0-62mph and 0-100mph in 11.7sec might not sound that impressive nowadays but it certainly was when it was being achieved in such an enormous piece of equipment and with that ZF gearbox that wasn’t mega-responsive. Context was everything.
Flying B in Nantwich has a good reputation as an independent, with only ex-factory Techs and Specialist Engineers working there. They offer fixed price servicing, the costs of which they are happy to put on their website but again it would be a case of talking to them about a Brooklands as the newest one of those will be more than 10 years old and this model is not specifically mentioned on their site .
20in ‘Disc’ 16-hole wheels were standard Brooklands fitment, but many cars were ordered from new with the optional five-spoke 20in alloys that were part of the Sports Combination Level 1 package. This also included dark-tint stainless steel matrices in the bumper apertures.
The exterior door handles were knurled to glitter in a suitably seductive manner and there were some lovely paint colours available in the literally billions of colour and trim combos, like Grey Violet or Burnt Oak. You could ask for the front grille to be chromed if you were a complete bounder.The inside of a Brooklands would have been familiar to Azure owners but with a kind of extra magnificence conferred by the solid roof.
Rear passengers were not only no worse off than those in the front, they were arguably better off because they could see more of the exquisiteness laid out in front of them from their electrically adjustable heated seats. Even six-foot plussers were not compromised on head or legroom in the back. The boot was generously sized and contained not one but two Bentley umbrellas. It was a genuine grand tourer for four.
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