Ask It: 2009 Bentley Brooklands

Iain April 25th, 2008 4:35 PM Link

I will ask the obvious: if you had $400k, would you buy this car? Is it worth it? And, really, is it worth 2 times the price of the Conti GT Speed?

dieselhead April 25th, 2008 4:50 PM Link

Two questions:

On the crowd-attraction scale where does it rate vs other cars you’ve had on hand?

Does the torque feel bottomless, or in the modern era is it getting a bit passe given all the weight involved?

Dan April 25th, 2008 5:06 PM Link

Kind of along the lines of what lain asked, but can you see where the money went, if you had to build this thing yourself? Does it have the skins of endangered animals on every surface, or are you buying a name? And will it do a burnout, because that would be kind of fun. I didn’t say anything about a dirt track.

Blake April 25th, 2008 5:07 PM Link

How many ping pong balls can you fit in the trunk?

Jeb April 25th, 2008 5:11 PM Link

How do people look at you in that car?

chartguy April 25th, 2008 5:26 PM Link

Are there any things that you take for granted in common vehicles that are not available in this one? Whether it’s the ability to make a U-turn without using six lanes, or perhaps it’s a cup holder. Just curious what you cannot do with a Bentley Brooklands that you might be able to do in a Honda Civic.

c4v3man April 25th, 2008 6:58 PM Link

How many dead hookers would an executive be able to put in the trunk if one had to do so?

Scott in AZ April 25th, 2008 8:20 PM Link

I realize that it is a Bentley and all. The wow factor of arriving in a Bentley aside and given the choice of the elite, luxury 2+2 coupes, is it really worth twice as much as a MB CL65 AMG or four times as much as a BMW M6? I guess along the sames lines as the others, if you had that type of money, is the Bentley a car that you would ultimately pull the trigger on and buy?

Scott in AZ April 25th, 2008 8:23 PM Link

And also, ditto on the ping pong balls in the trunk question.

Jonathan Fung April 25th, 2008 9:57 PM Link

When you drive something this luxurious, do you ever acquire an air of presumptuousness and arrogance — the sense that all the Kias and Hyundais around you are just far more pedestrian?

Mena April 25th, 2008 10:20 PM Link

I’d rather have the CL65.

Jeff April 26th, 2008 3:09 PM Link

So, how much leg room is there in this car for someone riding shotgun? It seems to me that if your car is this huge, you’d want a lot of room between your knees and the dashboard. Sort of a strange question, I guess, but I am curious to see how this compares to something more normal. Oh, and how does that space compare to if you have someone in the backseat as well? Thanks guys.

jpaul715 April 26th, 2008 4:00 PM Link

What is the most over-the-top feature on this car? By that I mean which feature is so unnecessary that it has to be on this car?

bepsf April 26th, 2008 10:41 PM Link

Who owns the car, and is he single?