If Design and Perceived Quality is about attention to any detail, then Bentley all-new Flying Spur flagship sedan surely must be a benchmark! Examples abound: chrome-plated seat tracks, artistically designed B-pillars, vanity mirrors wrapped in leather and finished in chrome, and the cricket ball stitching and burgundy shade color. It all looks so perfectly, splendidly British!
Details mean continuity and consistency between all parts, like the B-pillar having as much attention as the instrument panel or steering wheel. From floor to headliner, the same top-grade leather on the doors extends to the B-pillar, as does the diamond-shaped 3D-faceted quilting.
The long doors of the Continental allowed designers to extend the trim from the instrument panel toward the B-pillar, creating a more tapered surface that appears stretched and taut—just right for a sporty coupé. As the Flying Spur is a sedan, the front doors are shorter so the trim is less tapered but more luxurious.
Following the Bentayga in 2017 and the Continental GT coupe in 2019, these cars, assembled in Crewe, U.K., share an assembly architecture, the steering wheel, much of the instrument panel, digital gauge cluster, certain knurled metallic surfaces, the James Bond rotating display screen and much of the center console. But big massaging seats, doors and stitch patterns are different in part because Flying Spur is a sedan. Seat stitching is unique with diamond motifs starting out of small and double stitches, to elongate on the lower seat back and bottom cushions when reclined.
