FROM TAIGA TO THE BRITISH SEAS

UNUSUAL IN ALL RELATIONS, THE BENTLEY BENTAYGA SUV made its debut in SEPTEMBER 2015 at the FRANKFURT AUTO SALON - WHERE MORE WHEN THE BMW PRESIDENT HARALD KRUGER Fainted, it was only a short distance from him.

Text: Dmitry Konstantinov

The all-wheel drive British dreadnought with German filling has nothing to do with it - although who knows? The name Bentayga that caresses the Russian ear actually bears a mountain on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, but is it not the double success of marketers? At first, door handles on the bulges of the hind wings seem stylized nonsense to a hardened bio-design eye, but then you start to feel a special smack of tea with milk in them, the cozy warmth of a charcoal fireplace and waxed Barbour jacket on a chilly hunting morning. British aristocracy, sitting, like Woodhouse, on a meager rations of the era of reparations - no more than 19 liters of fuel per 100 km.

The MBL 4x4 platform has been tested on the new generation Audi Q7, which means on cayenne with Tuareg. Four-wheel drive Quattro distributes torque along the axles in a ratio of 40:60. And if you are stuck in Russian abysses or Arabian sands, the electronic Torsen differential control redistributes thrust up to 70% forward and up to 85% back.

The W12 six-liter engine, authored by grandson Ferdinand Porsche, accelerates the 2.4-ton all-terrain vehicle to 100 km / h in 4.1 seconds (like the Porsche GT3), and the proven top speed is 301 km / h, which SUVs could not afford before. The eight-speed automatic transmission ZF can give workshops on the severity of the reaction. The air suspension adjusts clearance from 145 mm (Honda Civic) to 235 mm (Mitsubishi Pajero). The front seats have 11 types of adjustment, the rear - “only” nine, but there, in the back, there are two more 10.2-inch removable tablets. The total power of the 12 cylinders of the four-block motor is 608 hp, and 18 built-in speakers are almost 2 kW. A Breitling gold watch with a tourbillon is mounted in a wooden torpedo, there are also eight programmable speed modes, six all-round cameras and one for night vision. “Everything that you previously knew about SUVs that are luxurious in every way is not considered,” the Bentaigu in Detroit announced this way at the beginning of the year by Wolfgang Dürheimer brand CEO.

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