With Bentley continuously bringing the two-seat super-coupe project up for discussion, we’re beginning to suspect it sets the pathway for a production model.
Even though at Crew they allegedly planning to concentrate on a second SUV first, there’s no denying that a potential sports-orientated machine makes for an appealing offering for the line-up and the customers, as Kevin Rose, Bentley’s board member for sales and marketing, recently told Top Gear.
“To decide whether to do a new model we always ask ourselves three questions. Is there a gap in the market? Is there a feeder group of customers coming from similar but cheaper cars? And can we make it a Bentley? With EXP 10, sure we can. It ticks all the boxes.”
Until now, the Volkswagen-owned company still hasn’t receive the green light from the board, although Rose offered some insights about the car’s underpinnings, which means the model is under serious consideration. If given the go-ahead, it will use a version of a new VW Group platform matrix offered with rear-wheel-drive or 4WD, with a longitudinally mounted engine.
The same platform, first designed for the next-gen Panamera, will be used by the future Bentleys that are already in the pipeline, so the EXP 10 Speed 6 production variant won’t arrive sooner than the aforementioned models.
“The EXP 10 will take the MSB platform from Porsche”, Rose explained. “We will pay them for it, but also we have a big hand in the development of that platform. The MSB will be the core platform for the GT, the Spur and the EXP 10 too. It can be different in the front and the rear and the middle.”
Though it will sit under the Continental GT, any thoughts of it being more accessible should evaporate; Rose was firm that “it will be smaller than the Continental GT, but not cheaper”.
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