{"id":453,"date":"2009-01-28T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-01-28T03:48:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T08:48:26","slug":"a-geneva-surprise-from-bentley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2009\/01\/a-geneva-surprise-from-bentley\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geneva Surprise From Bentley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-454\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-454\" title=\"bentley-geneva-surprise\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bentley-geneva-surprise-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bentley's Geneva surprise\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bentley-geneva-surprise-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bentley-geneva-surprise-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bentley-geneva-surprise-398x299.jpg 398w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bentley-geneva-surprise.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bentley&#39;s Geneva surprise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Take a close look at this picture.  It\u2019s all you\u2019re going to get to see, at least for the next five weeks, of the new supercar that Bentley plans to unveil at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.<\/p>\n<p>What little the automaker is revealing, for now, is that the new model will be \u201cvery much the extreme Bentley,\u201d and will rank as the fastest, most powerful production car the British luxury marque has ever brought to market.<\/p>\n<p>A little short of a year ago, and also in Geneva, Bentley sketched out plans to go \u201cgreen,\u201d Bentley CEO Franz-Josef Paefgen noting, at the time, that, \u201cthe security of our fuel supply and climate change.\u201d  According to Paefgen, the amount of CO2, the prime culprit in global warming, emitted by Bentley products by will be reduced \u201cat least 15 percent\u201d by 2012.<\/p>\n<p>How to deliver more power and performance \u2013 and less CO2?  Maybe it\u2019ll become more apparent when we see the new Bentley in person, as the 2009 Swiss show.  For the moment, we\u2019ll have to settle for the suggestion that the car we\u2019re seeing \u2013 likely the replacement for the current Continental line \u2013 will be capable of running on biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley, we should add, could use a bit of a boost, whatever powers it.  It\u2019s long been conventional wisdom, in the auto industry, that luxury products, especially in the Bentley range, are immune from recession.  The current downturn has proven that wrong, with the British maker showing losses in line with more mainstream brands.  But so far, we\u2019ve also been told, Volkswagen AG\u2019s top-line brand has been able to keep its operations in the black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bentley will reveal its fastest and most powerful production car ever, in Geneva, in March, as this sneak preview suggests&#8230;and it will be biofuel-powered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}