2006 Bentley Continental Flying Spur
November 6th, 2006
When Bentley met to review options for a place to launch the 2006 Continental Flying Spur, it settled on Venice, Italy. You can look at the Flying Spur as a four-door interpretation of Bentley’s Continental GT or as a super-upscale Volkswagen Phaeton, and you’ll be generally correct, but you will have missed the point.
Yes, the Flying Spur is a stretched Continental GT with central pillars, two more doors and acres of rear legroom. And yes, the Flying Spur’s suspension and Quattro all-wheel-drive system like the Continental GT’s share more than a passing relationship to the Phaeton’s chassis, and all three cars are brought to life at the hands of VW’s 6.0-liter W12 engine.