BENTLEY’S long-awaited SUV has a name at last – Bentayga. Very little else is known about the car – apart from the fact that Bentley has very high hopes for it.
Bentley has drawn upon its own name – Bent – and Taiga
In choosing the new name, Bentley has drawn upon its own name – “Bent” – and “Taiga”, the world’s largest transcontinental snowforest, as well as the towering Roque Bentayga in the Canary Islands.
According to Wolfgang Dürheimer, Chairman and CEO of Bentley Motors:
“Bentayga is a name that reflects what we know our SUV will do better than any other car in the world – combine the best automotive luxury with outstanding performance to take the Bentley experience to new environments.”
The Bentley Bentayga will be unveiled later this year and appear on the roads in 2016. The company will be hoping that the Bentayga’s styling gets a better reception than its first SUV design study, the EXP 9 F concept car, which was almost universally criticised when it appeared at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.
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