{"id":579487,"date":"2010-05-26T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=24765"},"modified":"2010-05-26T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:44:01","slug":"bentley-built-shooting-brake-is-a-possibility%e2%80%94maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579487","title":{"rendered":"Bentley-Built Shooting Brake is a Possibility\u2014Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-Bentley-Continental-Flying-Star-by-Touring-Superleggera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24766\" title=\"2011 Bentley Continental Flying Star by Touring Superleggera\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-Bentley-Continental-Flying-Star-by-Touring-Superleggera-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest company to tease wagon-lovers (that includes all members of the <em>Car and Driver<\/em> staff\u2014it\u2019s in our contracts) is, of all companies, Bentley. And no, we\u2019re not talking about the Continental-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2011_bentley_continental_flying_star_by_touring_superleggera-auto_shows\">Flying Star<\/a> wagonette (above) that debuted at this year\u2019s Geneva show and was subsequently made available to interested parties by Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. While chatting with Stuart McCullough, VW Board Member in charge of Bentley, at the launch of the company&#8217;s new 2011 Mulsanne flagship, the subject of new models came up. We discussed the possibility of even more derivatives of the Continental such as the Flying Star, and he stated that the idea of a shooting brake (car-speak for two-door wagon) Bentley is not at all out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an idea in the back of our minds that we may yet bring to market,\u201d McCullough said. Furthermore, he told us that the design that\u2019s been kicking around for a little while goes \u201ca lot further\u201d than the Touring-built concept, and would be entirely Bentley from conception to assembly. Yeah, we like the idea too.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get too excited, though. The Continental is nearing the end of its life span and it is unlikely that Bentley would be able to make a business case to develop, verify, and source materials for a ninth Continental model (yes, there are currently no fewer than eight Conti models on the market). It is far more likely that Bentley would use its resources to develop more derivatives of the aforementioned Mulsanne, such as a convertible and a coupe. And even if they were to build a wagon, it would be a shock to see it offered here. As <em>C\/D<\/em> executive online editor Erik Johnson said to me upon hearing of Mercedes-Benz\u2019s decision to build the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q2\/mercedes-benz_shooting_break_concept-auto_shows\">Shooting Break concept<\/a> just as BMW stated that it would not offer the gorgeous new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2010_bmw_5-series_touring-car_news\">2011 5-Series wagon<\/a> in America, \u201cIt seems that whenever a new wagon appears, another one goes away.\u201d In other words, we\u2019re used to being disappointed and we expect that McCullough\u2019s little morsel will never see the light of day on our side of the pond. But we\u2019d be happy to be proven wrong.<\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest company to tease wagon-lovers (that includes all members of the Car and Driver staff\u2014it\u2019s in our contracts) is, of all companies, Bentley. And no, we\u2019re not talking about the Continental-based Flying Star wagonette (above) that debuted at this year\u2019s Geneva show and was subsequently made available to interested parties by Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579487","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\/6402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}