Ultra luxury
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The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse blends the open-air appeal of the Grand Sport with the additional power of the Super Sport.
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2012 Bentley Mulsanne Executive Interior Choices Announced
Bentley Mulsanne buyers can now choose between two Executive Interiors, including the Theater specification and the iPad specification.
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Bentley Expecting To Double Sales, Sell 25,000 SUVs
Ultra-luxury brand Bentley isn't concerned about the global economy, forecasting double-digit growth in several key markets this year.
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Zagato Highlights Its History With Aston Martin
Italian design and engineering firm Zagato is commemorating its 50-plus year relationsh
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Lamborghini Says Supercar Sales Slowing In China
A shrinking Chinese economy has high-end automakers predicting less growth in 2012 than they experienced in 2011.
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Did Daimler Lose Over $400k On Each Maybach Sold?
Britain's Car magazine has calculated that Daimler lost a staggering 330,000 euros ($439,263) on each Maybach sold.
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Building on the success of its "Power on Ice" driving experience, Bentley will bring more temperate driving programs to North America in 2012.
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This Is Why You Park Your Rolls-Royce Drophead Top Up: Video
An Australian Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe owner learned an expensive lesson: always park you car with the top up.
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Bentley Sees Opportunity In The Demise Of Maybach
Bentley is looking to capitalize on a potential gap in the high-end luxury market, which will be created when Maybach ceases production.
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Xenatec Maybach Coupe Gets Cruiserio Name, Saudi Backers
The best-looking (perhaps only good-looking) Maybach offered these days isn't even built by Daimler. It's built by Xenatec, and it's a coupe conversion of the 57S. Now it has Saudi backing and a new name, Cruiserio--and it's headed to production, of a sort. With $93 million invested by Saudi...
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Bentley Planning More Special Edition Models
The new 2011 Bentley Continental GT is now out in the open and will soon be followed by updated versions of the Continental GT Speed, GTC convertible and Flying Spur sedan but along the way there will be a handful of special edition models to help keep interest brewing. Back at August’s...
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Bentley Mulsanne Takes Four Days Just To Paint
The all-new 2011 Bentley Mulsanne has been designed to represent the pinnacle of automotive luxury so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that painting the body alone takes a total of 86 hours--nearly four whole days--to complete. That is the level of attention to detail afforded to Bentley's...
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Reports of Maybach’s demise have been coming for almost as long as the brand (in its modern iteration) has been around for, which is now just on eight years. But with no new models in the pipeline, paltry sales figures of less than a third of what its closest rival, Rolls-Royce, enjoys, and less demand for hyper expensive cars all around the globe, the writing is definitely on the wall for the German ultra-luxury brand. According to latest reports, Maybach’s only model, the 57 sedan and its long-wheelbase 62 variant, will receive a mild facelift to see it to the end of its product...
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Report: Facelifted Maybach Coming Next Year
One of Maybach’s key problems is that it essentially offers a bloated Mercedes-Benz at an exuberant price tag.
Viknesh Vijayenthiran