Bentley Mulliner Batur unveiled as the most powerful Bentley yet

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Bentley Motors has unveiled the Bentley Mulliner Batur, a new two-door grand touring coupe. Created by Andreas Mindt and his team, the Batur showcases a new design DNA that will ultimately guide the design of Bentley’s future range of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs).

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The Batur is the latest project by Bentley’s in-house bespoke and coachbuilding division, Mulliner, and succeeds the Bacalar that relaunched coachbuilding at Bentley. Like the Bacalar, the Batur is named after a natural body of water, and is priced at around Rs 16 crore.

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The Batur will also be the most powerful Bentley yet, with a 730 bhp version of the iconic, hand-assembled 6.0-litre twin-turbocharged W12 engine that has powered Bentley’s cars for the last two decades. Engine performance will be matched to the most advanced Bentley chassis ever, with Speed-tuned air suspension, electric active anti-roll control, eLSD, four-wheel steering and torque vectoring.

All 18 examples of the Batur have already been reserved, and Mulliner’s in-house design team will co-create every Batur with its customer. Working together through a specially-created Mulliner visualiser allows any part of the car to be customised in colour and surface finish.

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“Luxury customers are moving from traditional to modern, and they want less decoration and chrome. Light will do the job of chrome in the future.” Around the back we find newly slimmed light clusters.

The Batur is another collectors’ Bentley, a sequel to the sold-out Bacalar roadster. But looks very different, and not just because it’s a coupe. Only 18 of them will be made, and Bentley has already shown the design in secret to some of its best customers. Chalk it up as a success: it sold out many weeks before the public unveiling at the Monterey Car Week.

At a price of £1.65 million each.

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