Bentley Flying Spur

Model reviewed: Hybrid (2023)
Score: 8 / 10
“The V6 plug-in hybrid brings attractive tax savings to Bentley’s luxury saloon, but it doesn’t quite match the smooth driving experience of its petrol-powered V8 counterpart.”
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Score: 9 / 10
“Hand-built Bentley Flying Spur luxury saloon combines breathtaking performance with majestic luxury and refinement.”
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Model reviewed: V8
Score: 10 / 10
“That this new V8 edition of the Bentley Flying Spur isn’t as expensive as the W12 and offers a more engaging drive without making a compromise in any single area means it’s the pick of the line-up. Not only is this a supremely well-engineered car, with a huge breadth of ability, it’s also one that drips with desirability.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre W12 petrol automatic
Score: 10 / 10
“The new Bentley Flying Spur is a world-class flagship, balancing performance, luxury and style in equal measure. The way it drives and handles is quite astonishing for such a large car, while the opulence of the cabin and attention to detail show Bentley at its best.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“Hand-built Bentley Flying Spur luxury saloon combines breathtaking performance with majestic luxury and refinement.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“The Bentley Flying Spur is a luxury saloon, and essentially a four-door version of the immensely popular Continental GT. Built to be driven or be driven in, the Flying Spur is packed with leather, wood and acres of well-appointed space.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre petrol automatic Speed
Score: 9 / 10
“All told, the W12 is a supremely engineered powertrain reaching its zenith, and it’s of great credit to the rest of the Bentley Flying Spur’s dynamic traits that they meld so convincingly around it to form a deeply satisfying whole. The lighter, freer-revving V8 is probably more dynamic still, but a drive in the Speed can’t help but be underlined by its context.”
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Model reviewed: 3.0-litre petrol/electric plug-in hybrid
Score: 9 / 10
“In many ways, the Bentley Flying Spur Hybrid is the most accomplished and convincing Flying Spur you can buy: a car quicker against the clock than the V12 Rolls-Royce Ghost but also able to cover a meaningful distance very serenely and without burning a drop of fuel.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“The Bentley Flying Spur is a luxury saloon with both the soul and the model mechanicals of a sports car. It handles better and goes harder than you’d imagine it will ever need to. But all that pace and purpose can’t outweigh the acknowledgement that the Flying Spur should be a better limousine.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre W12 petrol automatic
Score: 8 / 10
“It won’t be within reach of most fleets or drivers, but the Flying Spur heralds a new era of electrification for Bentley.”
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Model reviewed: Range review
Score: 8 / 10
“The new Bentley Flying Spur isn’t so much an evolutionary improvement on the old model, as a giant leap forward.”
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Score: 7.8 / 10
“The Bentley Flying Spur is a luxury saloon that’s both great to drive and be driven in”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“The Bentley Flying Spur is one of the most luxurious, and high-tech, saloon cars on sale. Its boot could be bigger, though, and automatic cruise control should be standard.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre petrol automatic
“For such a large car it handles beautifully even in the narrowest and twistiest lanes of Monaco, so should be a doddle in London, Glasgow, New York and Beijing.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre W12 petrol automatic
“Performance is toe-curling, but not the riotous drive you would expect from an out and out sports saloon. Okay, floor the accelerator and its like jet taking off, but occupants otherwise suffer no discomfort and feel as safe as you can be with such performance.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre W12 petrol automatic First Edition
“Comfort is supreme wherever you choose to sit, with everything from massaging seats to picnic tables and Champagne bottle coolers, mood lighting throughout and a rotating central display in the dash, plus touch screen remote control in the rear.”
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Model reviewed: V8
Score: 9 / 10
“New ‘entry-level’ Bentley Flying Spur is the pick of the limos.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“All-new Bentley Flying Spur is one of the few, if not the only, luxury car that is as good to drive as it is to be driven in.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 10 / 10
“The Bentley Flying Spur is a glorious way to travel, with acres of legroom, electric window blinds, even massaging armchair-style seats.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8.8 / 10
“Four-door Bentley is a fast, elegant and comfortable alternative to a private jet.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre W12 petrol automatic
“The Bentley Flying Spur is a fusion of cutting-edge tech and artisan craftsmanship.”
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Model reviewed: 6.0-litre W12 petrol automatic
Score: 8 / 10
“The Bentley Flying Spur is a fine car spoiled by a shabby ride.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“Perhaps the most compelling four-door Bentley’s built since the Arnage”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 6 / 10
“There are plenty of luxury cars that make more sense, but few have the sense of occasion that you get with the Bentley Flying Spur. Flawed, but we can see why you might.”
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