Big Bentley

Great News!
And no it's not about the Dacia Sandero.

For those that can afford the new Bentley Mulsanne, it is a relief to know that it will retain the "classic" Bentley V8. 752 lb-ft of torque will help motivate it along with alacrity. You'll have to make do with only 505HP, but a car especially of this size and weight responds much better to vast amounts of low RPM torque than HP anyway. I've experienced older variants of this engine in a 1990 Turbo R, and a 2005 Arnage R, the latter of which has "only" 616lb-ft of torque and still feels plenty quick for a 6,000lb luxury car. Especially passing power on the highway.



For more pictures and information see
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10355196-48.html

Ask Away

Well I was planning to come up with some interesting topics to talk about here, and still do from time to time, but my free-time being what it is, I thought we might get a bit more interesting discussion if readers suggest a car related topic I could look into and discuss. Could include specific engineering questions, general car questions, or questions of what's going on in the industry. Post a comment to the most recent blog entry, or e-mail me at brandon.shriver@gmail.com.

Pontiac

It was a sad day for American car enthusiasts when GM announced that they would be killing off Pontiac. Ironically shortly after the announcement independent polls indicated that Pontiac had the most favorable image of any GM company.
In typical GM fashion, they had just started a revolution with some world beating product (G8 GXP anyone?) and then discontinued it. Wouldn't a Firebird have been better than a Camaro (if we could only have one)?

Well it's a long shot, but why not fight a bit to keep GM's best brand? Someone had the good sense to set up a "Save Pontiac" site, and includes a proposition and some text for a letter to Congress. Hey, the worst that can happen is it goes nowhere, or flops, and you end up right where we are today anyway but at least we tried! Check out
http://www.savingpontiac.org/

Here's a video taken along our route. On route 66 outside Oatman, AZ. Only 2 problems were the Lincoln Town Car and that I wasn't driving. But it was fun anyway