Category: Large Executive 
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Power, strong acceleration, great interior, comfortable ride, top-drawer refinement.
Not as elegant to look at as the GT, horrendous thirst.
Remains an appealing, luxurious car with near-supercar performance.
Against the clock the Flying Spur sounds like it's a posh BMW M5-basher. From standstill the 552bhp W12 launches to 62mph in just 5.2 seconds storming onto a supercar-baiting 195mph.
The Flying Spur hits 100mph in 11.3 seconds and takes just 2.6s to sprint from 50-70mph, but before you get too carried away and imagine the Bentley being a blast on a B-road, consider this: it weighs 2.5 tonnes and that weight quickly catches up with the Flying Spur.
Tip it into a corner and, even in the lowest suspension setting, there's body roll and understeer.
The light steering also starts to feel less than precise and the amount of times the ESP has to intervene means it's better to slow down to a more dignified pace.
Around town its 479lb-ft is delivered from just 1,600rpm and that makes it smooth and punchy as you pull away from a standstill.
One final word of warning, the Bentley disengages drive when at standstill presumably to save the torque converter overheating in heavy traffic. Unfortunately there's no hill assist program, so if the brakes aren't applied hard enough it makes for scary roll-back moments on hills when going from the brake to throttle.
