Driving A 400BHP Fully Electric Bentley S2 Continental
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2023
- We were recently invited to drive the Lunaz Bentley S2 Continental. The most sustainable and luxurious fully electric classic car money can buy.
James takes to the road with Aiden McCafferty, Head of Client & Marketing Communications for an exclusive drive to find out why Lunaz chose the Bentley S2 Continental.
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I don’t agree with him on the fact you don’t want to drive a Bentley fast…that’s exactly what you want to do!
185 miles? Drive from Lodon to Folkstone, get on the shuttle, pop out in France, do a bit of duty free maybe whilst the car is plugged into a charger, turn round and come home.
You'd need a trailer to buy enough duty free to offset the cost of the shuttle these days.
I was lucky - we were on vacation in England and happened upon the Saville Row Concourse d' Elegance and that very car was at the show. "It's not just the most beautiful car I've ever seen (to quote Jeremy Clarkson talking about the Eagle X Jag), it might be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen"...just wonderful. Oh, if only I had the cash!
I think an EV swap in a luxury car makes sense because the game is lots of torque and little noise. But keep them out of sports cars.
ermm and why? the same argument can be used for why it would be good for sports cars as well...and luckely they dont listen to you because the Rimac 2 is the fasted thing in a straight line out there soooo yeah, you are wrong.
It makes absolutely no sense to totally and absolutely destroy such a rare coachbuilt car. Am fine to turn mass produced sports cars such as a Jag E Type or XJS into a mobile phone on wheels, but keep this sort of conversion off ultra-rare cars.
I love that there's a group out there working to save such beautiful vehicles - classic cars - from dust covers in garages where they will never truly be loved. Allowing these machines to stay on the roads without worry of future regulations on their fuels? Awesome idea.
They are destroying an ultra-rare coachbuilt car of the like of which will never be manufactured ever again. You don't destroy a piece of history in anticipation of future regulations that may or may never come. Someone who can afford a car like this can afford synthetic fuel for a few thousand miles a year. No point wrecking a car with only 4 examples made, transforming a grand tourer that was made to get you from London to Monaco in time to play the roulette the same evening into a mobile phone on wheel with barely enough autonomy to get to Dover.
These lovely cars are far too few in number to have any significant effect on emissions. Given the low amount of use most receive, the EV conversion will probably cause far more overall pollution, than leaving it unmolested.
I understand the conversion of these type of vehicles, they're primarily there for wafting across the landscape. What propels it doesn't matter.
They are wrecking an ultra-rare coachbuilt car powered by one of the most legendary and long lasting engines and turning it into a battery on wheels without the autonomy to do the grand tour of Europe for which it was designed. Propulsion does matter. Would you turn a Ferrari 500 Superfast (if you could afford one) into a battery on wheels? Probably not. Then why wreck a Bentley that was one of the most exclusive cars made after WW2?
Stowe, Buckingham?
It would be plausible if it had at least twice the range, it will run empty before you leave the country, never mind continent crossing!
Castration of my prize English Bull Terrier , neither he nor I will ever be the same again . That look , every morning of WHY ?
Why ?
So tedious when someone doesn’t answer the first simple question..bad enough for a politician..but there’s no need here..
The Car is gorgeous..but so much nicer with the 6.2 V8..
This is so much faster, though. The 6.23l V8 was seriously gutless - about 180bhp/220ftlb. Nowhere near enough for what was always a two-ton car. It needs some form of upgrade or restomod.
It doesn't need any sort of upgrade or restomod. It's a coachbuilt car that represents the apex of Britain's post-war automobile production. If you want something fast, just buy a Volkswagen-Bentley, but don't wreck a rare car the likes of which we shall never see again. @@richardharrold9736
One of only 4 ever built. Now only 3 real ones left. No longer a rare classic car.
Stop with the Bxxx Sxxt mate, these cars are half a millie now plus the electric bit, Jesus........ I love the way the suspension knocks too........
Only knocks over really deep potholes. British roads are the worst in the developed world.
Gee that's a horrible whine
Exactly!
When he made a U turn the wineing noise reminded me of the fork lift trucks I used to drive at Longbridge.
The only whine I’m hearing is yours.
185 miles of range for a Bentley S2 (grand tourer) 🐂💩!
Converting a classic (and 1 of only 4 built) to EV is sacrilege. This EV nonsense has to stop. Once these classic cars are desecrated there is no going back. Its ideological madness at its most extreme.
you are talking about fucking cars in a religious manner? that immediately disqualifies you from any debate on any subject really....
@@Decenium Clearly you're a motoring athiest.
Agree 100%! Desecration at the altar of political agendas.
To be fair, the original engine in this was pretty rubbish, it didn't make a great noise, it didn't enhance the car's character in any way, it was just gutless and underpowered. The only thing about this car that was rare was the body on this one, R-R made quite a lot of S1/S2/S3 chassis...
Would you approve of destroying Big Ben, or St. Paul's Cathedral, adding ugly modern concrete/glass additions? Hope not. A Bentley S2 with coachbuilt body represents the best that Britain manufactured after WW2, and should likewise not be desecrated. Your use of the f-word disqualifies you from any debate on any subject really.
Devastating! Irrespective of how awful their original performance may have been with the original V8, classic cars are only original ONCE & once they have been molested through major engine modifications their value plummets significantly. On top of that, how long will the current technology that's been installed in the car, last before it too becomes obsolete? EV's are so overrated with the appalling amount of raw materials needed to mine to create just one battery! What sad times we live in . . .
Original performance was not "awful!" and they are perfectly capable in modern traffic, powertrain not "rubbish" as someone commented above. Ride was/is smooth, quiet, silky, provided they are maintained. A trailer queen that gets no use, that has not been kept up with suspension, tires, etc... will ride poorly, but a good example is an absolute pleasure to drive. This conversion is a silly gimmick, for people with too much money and a need to signal status and virtue.
What a shame. I really dislike these EV conversations. Germany and Italy are pushing hard now to lift the intended ban on ICEs. We'll be able to run ICE classics on synthetic fuel too. Don't ruin them by ripping their guts out and making them sound like a milk float. The costs are ridiculous too.
The costs of well maintained one are also crazy…they take basically shells that can’t be restored anyways without basically recreating parts
A Bentley S2 with rare James Young Coachwork can always be restored. It's the coachwork that's rare, not the mechanicals (the engine was produced for over 50 year). There is no point wrecking the mechanicals of such an ultra-rare car.@@VOLUMEnightclub
A lot of nonsense written on here…the car was someone’s possession and they can do whatever they want to with it.
Two men sitting in car talking to each other -- little of use or value to me!
Sorry, but I do agree, more car and less people please!
Sacrilege. Why rape a classic? If you want an EV, buy a new one. Classic car channels should not be promoting the destruction of classics, but rather be devoted to preserving classics in their original state, treat them like the historical objects that they are.
I take it you don’t like resto mods either or any sort of engine swapping ? There’s room for everything and everyone
Hey man, what is it like to have an IQ in the single digits?
Then resto-mod, wreck and destroy a mass-produced car, you don't need to do it on an ultra-rare classic.@@West4ea
Just no. No point what so ever. If you have this amount of money then restore and improve by all means. This is a real shame.
restoring this means you still have a crappy old tech car...how is that going to make anyone happy?
And WHO CARES, you have literally nothing to do with this car, all of them could be destroyed by now and it would not affect you in any way, so stop being stupid.
Great way to add 1000x the environmental damage to a classic, while ruining the character and revealing all the horrendous noises classics all make.
Just fill it up with synthetic fuel and be done with it. Heck just continuing to fill them with fossil fuels would do less damage. None of these cars are getting driven far enough in their lifetimes to offset the environmental impact of the battery manufacture
Nice car, Ruined and virtually worthless.
What a shame..
Awful.
VERY GAY MAKING IT ELECTRIC