- The Flying Spur is Bentley’s ultra-luxury full-sized four-door sedan.
- With all the features available, it can easily cost up to $300,000.
- We explored how it sounds and feels to drive one.
Narrator: This is a 2022 Bentley Flying Spur, a four-door ultra-luxury sedan you can own for just under $300,000. We got our hands on one with custom styling, extra gadgets, and a newly available V-8 engine to find out what it actually sounds like and feels like to drive.
The first thing you’ll notice in the interior is the Flying Spur’s rotating display. On one side is a 12.3-inch touch screen. On the other, three analog gauges: a thermometer showing the outside temperature, a chronometer, and a compass surrounded by 200-million-year-old-stone veneer, which also circles the dashboard. It’s just one of the options courtesy of Bentley’s custom shop, Mulliner, which also adds diamond leather quilting patterns for seats, a 3D leather design for door panels, and, outside, 22-inch wheels.
While the James Bond-like rotating display, made up of 153 individual pieces, is mesmerizing to watch, it’s the touch screen where you’ll find controls for the actual gadgets, which include massage seats with five different modes and intensities.
But the real luxury is for the rear-seat passengers, who get headrests as soft as pillows. There are flip-down vanity mirrors on both sides, so you can make sure you’re looking your best before you open the door. In between the front seats is a small touch-screen tablet. And if you tap the eject icon, the tablet can be removed and held like a smartphone. It can be used to control everything from music and cabin temperature [classical music playing] to the sunroof and window blinds. The tablet can even be used to reveal the Spur’s crystal-inlaid pop-up hood ornament, the Flying B.
Despite being almost as heavy as a Rolls-Royce, at up to 5,372 pounds, the Flying Spur doesn’t drive like a chauffeur’s car. It’s built on the same platform as the Porsche Panamera and has high-powered anti-roll bars like Lamborghini’s SUV. That means the Spur turns corners like a sports car, especially if you shed some pounds by choosing the new V-8 engine. Even without the beefier W-12, it still manages a top speed of almost 200 miles per hour and goes 0 to 60 in just four seconds.
No matter the engine, the Spur is effortlessly fast, even if the V-8 revs just a little louder to get up there. The Spur’s air springs and adaptive dampers make it so you barely notice a bump in the road. The car’s four drive modes, Bentley, comfort, sport, and custom, change the settings for throttle response, suspension, steering, traction control, and more. While Bentley mode provides the perfect balance, sport mode is necessary to hear and feel just what this car can do.
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