{"id":47785,"date":"2009-11-24T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/24\/bentley-working-on-new-sub-continental-shooting-brake-and-crosso\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T18:01:00","slug":"bentley-working-on-new-sub-continental-shooting-brake-and-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47785","title":{"rendered":"Bentley working on new sub-Continental shooting brake and crossover?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bentley Continental Supersports – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nBentley has just supplanted the Jurassic-era Arnage with the new Mulsanne<\/a>, which in turn will breed replacements for the Brooklands and Azure<\/a>. A new Continental<\/a> range is on the way as well. But according to a new report from Automobile Magazine<\/em>, the crew from Crewe isn’t content simply replacing existing models: they want to branch out. And when their heads are already scraping the sky, Bentley is reportedly looking at going downmarket with two new niche models.<\/p>\n

Tentatively known as the New Compact Bentley (NCB) project, the luxury automaker hopes to cover new territory in the $110-130,000 range in two forms: a three-door shooting brake and a segment-busting crossover. The latter would be more of a tall wagon than a sport-ute, as Automobile<\/em> notes that Bentley chief Franz-Josef Paefgen was responsible for the original Audi Allroad but opposed the Q7. <\/p>\n

Platform underpinnings for both would reportedly be based loosely on the next-gen Audi A6\/A7 flexible architecture and powered by an Audi-based 4.5-liter twin-turbo V8 driving somewhere in the neighborhood of 550 horsepower through all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission. Production would reportedly be pegged around 7500 units annually, but Bentley might find it doesn’t have the market all to itself, as Rolls-Royce is said to be working on a Ghost-based crossover of its own known as the “Short High Rugged International Metropolitan Project” – or SHRIMP for short.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Bentley Continental Supersports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Automobile Magazine<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Wagon, Crossover, Hatchback, Bentley, Luxury Bentley Continental Supersports – Click above for high-res image gallery Bentley has just supplanted the Jurassic-era Arnage with the new Mulsanne, which in turn will breed replacements for the Brooklands and Azure. A new Continental range is on the way as well. But according to a new report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}