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Bentley Mulliner Bacalar: a boon for the super-rich Bentleys not exclusive enough for you? Then keep an eye on its new venture, the Mulliner Bacalar by The Week team © Bentley This marks the beginning of a new chapter for Bentley, says Piers Ward on Autocar. The carmaker teamed up with coachbuilder Mulliner to launch “ever more exclusive cars” – and the Mulliner Bacalar was born. Everyone who signed up for the limited-production model in 2020 is still committed, and every one of the 12 cars being made “found a home within days”, despite sporting a hefty price tag of £1.5m – risi...

Bentley Mulliner Bacalar This marks the beginning of a new chapter for Bentley, says Piers Ward on Autocar. The carmaker teamed up with coachbuilder Mulliner to launch “ever more exclusive cars” – and the Mulliner Bacalar was born. Everyone who signed up for the limited-production model in 2020 is still committed, and every one of the 12 cars being made “found a home within days”, despite sporting a hefty price tag of £1.5m – rising to something more like £2m after customers’ specifications. The exquisite details, though, “add up to more than the sum of their parts”. A pus...

One of the great pleasures of owning a Subaru Impreza or Mitsubishi Evo must be opening the curtains on a winter’s morning to a blanket of pristine white snow. While poor weather would be the excuse for most drivers to crawl back between the sheets and add another 30 minutes to their alarms, a select few cars revel in uncertain conditions. They tread confidently where the rest hesitate, and impart reassurance to their drivers where others send mixed messages. We have three such cars with us today. The skies over the Peak District are heavy with misery, gusts of wind cut through to the bone,...

Issue 003. The very first Car of the Year back in 1998 was just the third go at this thing a group of guys – Harry Metcalfe, John Barker, Dickie Meaden, art editor Damian Smith and publisher Allan Pattison, plus Peter Tomalin, current editor Stuart Gallagher and a host of freelance photographers – called evo. I don’t want to pat them too heartily on the back, but you’ve got to admire the blind ambition, the tenacity to secure the cars and the commitment they showed to the cause, even when the future of this experiment was uncertain at best and downright precarious in the cold light o...