Monday, May 13, 2013
The 2012 Bentley Mulsanne Review and Pricing
If you wanted to buy the new 2011 Bentley Mulsanne, we have very bad newsThe new model from the British manufacturer is already sold out until 2012. According to the manufacturer, customers already placed orders for about 800 units of the new sedan. The problem is that each Bentley Mulsanne needs lots of hours to be built only the painting process takes about 86 hours and the rest of the car needs lots of attention in order to be perfect! The Bentley plant will built about 200 units of the Mulsanne this year and next year the manufacturer announced that it will increase capacity in order to keep up with the demand!
The control-arm front suspension of the new Mulsanne, for instance, is shared with the Audi A8, and the control-arm rear layout comes from the Audi A6 Avant. The HVAC system is an A8 unit, and there is shared electrical architecture with other VW cars, but otherwise, the Mulsanne is all Bentley, designed and built at the company’s spiritual home of Crewe in northern England. The body is manufactured at Crewe, unlike those for the Continental range, which are
made in Germany and shipped to England for final assembly. The Mulsanne is a bigger car than the regular-length Arnage, with a 128.6-inch wheelbase and overall length of 219.5 inches, increases of about six and seven inches, respectively. Despite this and a lot more standard equipment, the Mulsanne is 66 pounds lighter than the Arnage, Bentley claims, thanks to the use of aluminum for the car’s doors, hood, and front fenders, as well as composites for the trunk. However, at 5700 or so pounds, the Mulsanne won’t be winning any medals from tree huggers.
