A compact Bentley city car could be in the works to compete directly with the Aston Martin Cygnet. This rendering of the Bentley Barnato (here’s hoping they change the name), shows how Bentley’s stylistic themes would fit onto a luxury city car.
The rendering took the Citroen DS3 as a basis, although if a Bentley city car was to be produced, it would more likely take the new Audi A1 as the basis, given that Bentley is part of the Volkswagen group. Bentley would provide a bit of competition to Aston Martin, taking on the same ideas of surprising the market and entering a segment not traditionally its own, as the Cygnet.
Bentley would also be looking at introducing a car like the Barnato to reduce the overall high CO2 emissions of the Bentley range. This would be an additional move to the recently announced introduction of ethanol across the range. We’re not sure that the market will be too impressed by the Bentley’s and Aston’s of the world creating city cars to reduce the carbon emissions of the range, but as long as it’s a Bentley someone probably will buy it.
Source | Autoblog.nl