TWO million pounds. Two million English pounds.
That’s a lot of money for a car. Even for a Bentley as rare and as beautiful as this one undoubtedly is.
It’s called Batur and features 3D-printed 18K gold controls and natural-fibre composite parts.
The mighty 750hp engine is the most powerful in Bentley history.
The smooth body and slim lights tease future design.
Specify any colour paint and finish you desire.
Limited to just 18 cars. All reserved instantly.
Still, £2million though?
I suppose you’ll never see another one and rich people will always want something no one else has.
But it got me thinking.
Batur is 4.9 metres long. Which means it costs £4,082 per centimetre.
You could buy a lot of very nice motors for a tiny slither of this car.
Just 5cm equates to £20k and a brand-spanking Peugeot 208, 10cm is a £40k Ford Focus ST, 25cm is a £100k Porsche 911 T.
Or how about TEN Lamborghini Urus super SUVs for the price of one Batur?
Then you could have every colour of Quality Street, not just the purple one.
Which brings me nicely to this engineering prototype, car #0.
I wasn’t gentle with it.
Even though my house wouldn’t cover the insurance excess, it’s my job to make sure I brought it back all hot and smelly and in need of a drink.
That W12 engine is an engineering masterpiece. Six litres and 12 cylinders of fire and brimstone, 1,000Nm of torque.
The performance is nothing short of scorching. Top speed is 209mph. But you’ll blink long before that.
Grip and traction, and cornering speed, are immense.
The combination of four-wheel drive with four-wheel steering, electric anti-roll control and air suspension sees to that. Yet the engine always dominates.
Now, some of you will say you can get all of that good stuff in a £200k Bentley Continental GT. You can.
Batur is based on a Conti but it wears a made-to-measure suit. And it’ll make you much more interesting and attractive.
You can tell friends those gold controls are 100-per-cent recycled from old jewellery, ground into a fine powder needed for 3D printing.
Then hand-finished and hallmarked in Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter.
You can tell them your car is named after Lake Batur in Bali.
But there’s only two seats.
So you can only give the pretty one a lift.
