From the December 2023 issue of Car and Driver.
0–150–0 mph: 32.8 seconds
Base: $234,250 | As-Tested: $302,910
Power and Weight: 542 hp • 5432 lb • 10.0 lb/hp
Tires: Pirelli P Zero, 285/40ZR-22 (110Y) B1
Brakes, F/R: 15.7-in vented disc/15.0-in vented disc
Reaching 150 mph in the Bentayga was no big deal. There’s no launch control, so you just brake-torque its conventional eight-speed automatic and go, bracing for a violent one-two upshift. The 542-hp twin-turbocharged V-8 is healthy enough to dispel most W-12 FOMO, muscling the bodacious SUV to 150 mph in 25.7 seconds. That’s when the drama starts, because despite its respectable braking stat—694 feet—the Bentayga was manifestly unhappy about shedding that much speed in one ferocious stop. One Bentayga driver returned from a run and said, “It goes like hell and smells nice until the leather scent is overwhelmed by brake bouquet. It does a wiggle under braking, and the brakes start chattering. Not a terrible time, but it wasn’t happy about it! I’m really surprised this doesn’t have carbon-ceramics.”
Don’t get us wrong, we’re impressed. In horsepower terms, stopping the Bentley in 6.5 seconds equates to an average of 1143 horsepower. But the Bentayga hauling down from 150 mph is like Nikola Jokić playing basketball—it’s possible to excel at something while letting everyone know you don’t enjoy doing it.
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Senior Editor
Ezra Dyer is a Car and Driver senior editor and columnist. He’s now based in North Carolina but still remembers how to turn right. He owns a 2009 GEM e4 and once drove 206 mph. Those facts are mutually exclusive.
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