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2008 BROOKLANDS COUPE; Big Bentley two-door captures company's racing heritage.(News)
Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
Not content with its immensely successful Continental GT coupe, Bentley will build a flagship coupe variant of the Azure sedan-and draw on 100 years of British racing heritage by naming the car the Brooklands.
Brooklands the car commemorates Bentley's racing exploits in the 1920s at Brooklands the racetrack (see sidebar), which celebrates its centennial this year.
"Bentley's proud sporting pedigree, forged by the exploits of the immortal Bentley Boys on the famous Brooklands racetrack in the 1920s, was the inspiration for our coupe,'' says Bentley chairman Franz-Josef Paefgen. "The Brooklands captures all the style, power and splendor of that era.''
Revealed at the Geneva motor show and headed for dealerships a year from now, the 2008 Brooklands will be limited to 550 cars built during the next three to four years.
The luxury four-seater has a higher-output version of the Azure's hand-built, 6.75-liter, twin-turbocharged V8, which produces 530 hp and 774 lb-ft of torque in the Brooklands. Bentley notes the engine is the latest and greatest evolution of the venerable Crewe-built V8 launched in 1959 as a 6.23-liter ...
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