Archive for October 2021

Bentley is celebrating 70 years since it established its own design department at the historic Crewe HQ. The first Crewe-designed Bentley was the R-Type Continental of 1951 which was arguably Chief Designer John Blatchley’s finest expression of postwar aerodynamic form. Blatchley had been poached from famed coachbuilder Gurney Nutting who constructed the famous streamlined Blue…

There’s not only a much-hyped new James Bond film being released but with a suitably theatrical flourish Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös has also announced that the company’s much anticipated electric vehicle will appear in Quarter 4 in 2023. The name will be Spectre, which follows the spooky monickers applied down the ages but some may…