I'll cross that off my list then, and wait for the Dacia facelifts in the Paris motor show.

I was going to mock, but actually it's very interesting to get an insight into a car that i can't currently consider purchasing. My only real impression of it is that it's a plush Audi Q7. I can't honestly see why anyone would pick one over a Range Rover. It might be nice, but not twice the price nice.

Edited by PCharlton on 16/09/2016 at 22:27

Oh and the door handles were floppy - felt loose and cheap

1) To drive like a loon around back roads its fun and impressive

2) To look at from a distance it looks good

A matter of opinion. I think it looks a right monstrosity
3) To drive sedately it feels swimmy and made me car sick as a driver (I'm never car sick)
4) That big shiny grill at the front is just plastic

It has to be. Cars cannot pass crash requirements and get 5* NCAP otherwise
5) There are lots of Audi Q7 bits on the inside which cheapen it - more plastic

The seats are carry over A8, but with Bentley leather. Some of the switches for seat operations are very small and fiddly and out of sight down the side of the seat. Some of the switches wobble and 'feel' cheap. Even the £225,000 one I was looking at today had manual head restraints!!! The massage system can only be turned on and off via the tiny switch on the seat side. The massage menu on the touchscreen only appears when the on/off switch is pressed and dissappears after 15 seconds (if you want to change the massage whilst it is operating you have to turn it off and back on to get the menu up). The seats ventilation system is very noisy.

Although the massage is 10 zone, the programs are slow and uninspiring. Not a patch on the S Class. The same 5 programs from the A8 (which is half the price!)

On the positive side the seats are comfortable and the easy ingress/egress pneumatic cushion and squab bolsters are a nice touch (except that all four deflate and then they inflate in sequence when it would be much better to simply deflate the outboard ones and reflate them together)

No soft start on the seat motors - a jerky start at full tilt instead.

I completely unscrewed one of the vent control knobs thinking they turn and not realising they push/pull. The four vent knobs are four different lengths!

6) The Event Specification (£2500) consists of a flimsy fold down seat and poor fitting mechanism that I wouldn't pay more than a couple of hundred £ for

Yep. I'd have to agree. Quite pathetic for such an expensive car. A 40 quid chair from B&Q would be preferable
7) You can buy a top spec Range Rover with all the toys for the entry level price of the Bentayga and you would have a better car in all manners

Yes its fast, yes it looks good but it is not worth it in any way.

I'd have a Range Rover SVR and keep the change! The RRSVR is only fractionaly slower and sounds way better than this blinged up Q7.

My assessment was static - I was unable to drive it. It does sound good though (untill you hear it next to an SVR, that is).

The remote 'key' fob is huge and heavy to have in your pocket.

A £225,000 car with a bench rear seat? FFS. And manual operation squabs with head restraints that crash str8 into the RSE screens when they are released.

The owners manual proclaimed there was a seats menu accessible from the home screen. No there wasn't !!! Schoolboy error from someone

With the engine running and even with the door closed, this bossy machine was bonging continuously with no message for why on the display and no apparent way to shut it up. I could have hit it with a brick!

Looks are a matter of opinion; to some extent so is the way a car drives. But in a £160,000 Bentley, anything shoddy or flimsy is, objectively, inexcusable.

If you're going to use someone's parts bin, it may as well be Audi's. You don't find shoddy or flimsy items in Audis, so I can't understand why they're to be found in a Bentley.