Tag: luxury car

Ultimate Experiences: Bentley Ice Driving in Finland

31 August 2010

With the world’s love for luxury, it’s long been a dream of many people to drive a top-of-the-line automobile like a Bentley. For adventure seekers of the world, many of them want to drive on tough, unpredictable terrain, like ice and snow. With the Bentley Ice Driving Experience, both of these worlds collide and produce a unique experience that’s sure to satisfy.

From ’flying’ underwater to floating weightlessly above the clouds, there’s an ultimate adventure out there for everyone. However, few in the world are able to combine two completely separate experiences in one ultimate package. For the starting price of €8,990 per person, you can take the wheel of a Bentley and hit the icy roads at blazing speeds.

This is something Bentley has been working on in recent years. So many people wish to own their cars because of the power and prowess, Bentley decided that they’d begin allowing people to drive them on insane ice courses over frozen lakes while under the eye of professional driving instructors.

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Luxurious, lavish and totally Bentley

14 November 2008

The Bentley brand of automobile is the quintessential luxury car of today’s world. Other brands such as Mercedes and Lexus have challenged for the top spot, but Bentley proves time and again that their take on lavishness is what the consumer wants.

In a world of refined mineral water, Bentley can be viewed as Perrier; pure from the springs. Like any luxury car, however, you can expect to pay a small fortune for the rights to drive your own. Even the lesser popular models have price tags of six-figures.

Bentley’s sedans and coupes are famously handmade in Great Britain, by and large, at the state-of-the-art manufacturing site, Crewe factory. The Bentley benchmark is deeply imprinted, and the fine craftsmanship-meets modern day technology approach produces a regularly superior automobile.

Bentley Motors is nearing 100-years-old, and was founded by Walter Owen Bentley in 1919. He quickly put the nose to the grindstone and within two years, Bentley had released the first model, the rapid 3-litre debut. Soon after the first release received public acclaim, Bentley followed up with other impressive models.

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A review of Rolls Royce, the prestige automobile company

09 October 2008

Rolls-Royce is undoubtedly the most luxurious car brand on the planet. For over a century, Rolls-Royce has been the marquee standard when it comes to the development of a luxury car, and other carmakers have copied, imitated, and stolen Rolls-Royce design concepts for decades.

Due to a recent resurgence in popularity, Rolls-Royce has once again taken the top spot as kings of the automotive world. The company was officially formed in 1906 when Charles Stewart Rolls and Fredrick Henry Royce formed a partnership. The company’s six-cylinder Silver Ghost was debuted that same year. RR was unlike any other manufacturer of the era. Their attention to detail and dedication to quality was clear from the start.

During the 1920s, Rolls-Royce opened a second factory in Springfield, Massachusetts in order to keep up with the rising demand. This factory only stayed open for 10 years, but they launched the Phantom 1, which would ultimately become the defining Rolls-Royce model.

The car was powered by a pushrod-operated overhead valve engine with detachable cylinder heads. This was very cutting-edge technology for the time. And in 1931, with the acquisition of Bentley, Rolls-Royce had the market of luxury cars cornered.

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