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| Bentley Arnage T - First Drive by C&D
Garlits would approve: Bentley builds a burled, consummately British burnout machine.  BY JARED HOLSTEIN, April 2007
The Arnage T’s traction control system is programmed such that, per Bentley, “You can drift the car with some wheelspin, but it never lets you get in any trouble.” That this statement it attached to a 5700-pound, nearly 18-foot-long cache of burl, Connolly leather and handcrafted pomp is reason enough to make us like it.
Bentley’s sales have increased six-fold in the last three years, due largely to the success of the new Continental, sold mostly to first-time Bentley buyers. “Old” Bentley buyers, however, are less interested in a 198-mph top speed and more interested in an ownership experience similar to that of their father and father’s father. The Arnage remains the classic Bentley saloon, available as a “standard” 450-hp R, long-wheelbase RL, or more-spirited, 500-hp T.
The T starts at $250,985, though if you throw in a champagne cooler, choose custom interior and exterior hues, and perhaps some factory grenade proofing, plan on fiddling with the number in the left-most column. If it helps paint the picture, where the average Continental buyer possesses a net worth of $3 million, the average Arnage buyer is worth some $30 million, and a popular option in the Queen’s country are sill plates emblazoned with the family crest.
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