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Bentley Toybox events are an opportunity to experience Bentley&#039;s heritage and current lineup. This time Bentley Toybox was all about three sedans, which played key roles in Bentley’s history: the 60-year old T-Series, the 40-year old Turbo R, and the 20-year old Flying Spur. The latter being the first Bentley sedan to achieve top speed of over 200 mph, which is about 322 kmh/h. Spoiler, I didn’t drive as fast, but here’s going to be some track work later on in the episode.   🎯 Do you like my channel? Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/SubMarekDrivesENG  💥 Follow me here: https://www.wieruszewski.com https://facebook.com/marekdrives https://twitter.com/mwieruszewski https://instagram.com/marek_drives  📢 I started a new channel - https://bit.ly/MareksGear, where I&#039;m talking about the gear I use to make my shoe-string budget car reviews. Check it out, and please consider subscribing: https://bit.ly/SubMareksGear  🚙 Also watch: Aston Martin DB11 https://youtu.be/Pbkw20ryPZI BMW i8 https://youtu.be/CIgdS0g-vLM Ferrari California T https://youtu.be/USppIuvpIkI McLaren 570S Spider https://youtu.be/5ED5zc1rsGM Mercedes-Benz S560 Coupe vs. BMW M850i https://youtu.be/38pSyHy02kE Mercedes-AMG

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00:06what am i doing and how did i get here let me explain a couple of months ago i received

00:11a

00:11suspiciously looking email from someone with clearly a fake name who claimed to represent

00:16bentley's communication department just google bentley's chief communications officer anyway

00:23he drives an audi and he's seen my sq5 review which he liked so much that he decided to ask

00:29me if perhaps i'd like to drive some bentleys i looked at my calendar which was filled with chinese

00:35premieres and replied that i'll make an exception for bentley and off i was on a flight to blighty

00:40specifically to manchester and then to crew where bentley has its factory and also a house which was

00:46once the residence of bentley's ceos and currently serves as a space where clients can configure

00:52their cars and experience bentley's collaborations with designers artists distillers or hi-fi

00:58manufacturers a wonderful start to the day here at muse the bentley house and we're going to

01:05experience some of the toys here behind me there is something new and something old something for

01:09everyone and of course they're mowing the lawn as the event begins because this is why the brits have

01:16beautiful lawns

01:34every now and then so-called bentley toy box events are organized this time it was all about three sedans

01:40which played key roles in bentley's history the 60 year old t-series the 40 year old turbo r and

01:48the 20 year old flying spare the latter being the first bentley sedan to achieve top speed of over 200

01:54miles per hour which is about 322 kilometers per hour spoiler i didn't drive as fast but there is going

02:01to be some track work later on in the episode let's start with the t-series which was bentley's first

02:07model

02:07with a monocoque chassis this car we cannot take out because it's still being registered however

02:16it's been thoroughly restored it was found in california i believe uh three or four years ago it was fully

02:24restored here in the uk it's absolutely lovely it smells of leather and wood and everything and um

02:34yeah it's just a beautiful place to be and uh the seats are soft and the suspension

02:40if i move about like this the whole car wobbles a bit it's uh absolutely wonderful

02:46unveiled at the 1965 paris motor show the t-series had smaller exterior dimensions to its predecessor

02:51but offered more interior space it was powered by a 6.2 liter v8 producing 202 horsepower the car could

02:59accelerate

02:59from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in just over 10 seconds and had a top speed of 112 miles

03:05per hour

03:06or approximately 180 kilometers per hour interesting fact at the time bentley belonged to rolls-royce and

03:13the t-series was essentially a rebadged shadow so much so that even the seatbelt buckle bears the rolls logo

03:20as no one could be bothered to produce a separate buckle

03:24the rs roe's subsequent financial problems and bentley's declining sales provided an opportunity to

03:30revitalize the latter brand by differentiating it from rolls and focusing on its racing heritage

03:37then came the malzahn and its malzahn turbo variant which had one drawback it had more performance than

03:45handling and this is where the bentley turbo r came into play r for road holding unlike its predecessor

04:06here i am behind the wheel of the bentley turbo r and i'm just leaving the built-up area and

04:12i could

04:13give it a little squirt

04:18oh

04:23it doesn't need to but it can

04:27the 80s called me and said they want their car back but i'm not sure i'm gonna give them their

04:33car

04:33back just yet i'm excited just to be here to be able to sort of take in this wonderful experience

04:44the

04:44vertical dash the thin steering wheel the analog gauges oh everything is so within reach and i suppose if

04:56i spent a few hours with this car it would prove to be intuitive because right now i just see

05:00a bunch

05:01of buttons but uh why did we go to screens when this was such a wonderful wonderful layout

05:09oh and it's just so comfortable

05:20oh it's unbelievable how this thing just goes at the touch of the pedal oh

05:30i may have just run over a pothole but to be honest i can't tell oh a roundabout

05:46okay okay okay okay okay okay and back we are from the roundabout

05:56i see people are looking i don't know if it's because they enjoy this car or whether they're

06:04wondering why a young person such as myself is driving it

06:12okay okay okay so the braking situation here while the brakes bite they don't bite from the very top

06:20so you know you just have to be mindful of this and oh my god i would like to overtake

06:28but

06:30not in a car that's

06:33uh worth probably more than my house or two

06:49the 1985 turbo r was powered by a six and three quarter liter v8 with a garrett turbo and produced

06:57almost 300 horsepower it could accelerate from zero to 100 kilometers per hour in seven seconds

07:02and had a top speed of 135 miles per hour or nearly 220 kilometers per hour it's said that this

07:10model

07:10actually saved the british brand as it garnered interest in the market a dozen or so years later

07:17bentley was acquired by volkswagen group this was vw's golden age with projects like the phaeton which

07:24lent its platform also to the 2005 flying spare

07:32this is what luxury looked and felt like 20 years ago this is the bentley flying spare

07:57this is what luxury looks like

08:24turbo are that's pretty cool

08:46and we give the Bentley Flying Spur a little squirt here

08:52oh oh and it warns me to slow down instantly because it gets going pretty

09:02quickly I used to have a Lincoln mark 7 LSC leisure sports coupe or something of

09:14short anyway that was a early 90s car this is a early mid-2000s car and I feel a

09:24lot of similarities in the way the car smells the way the car feels to drive

09:30it's the luxury of the turn of the century and I really enjoyed it I'm not

09:37sure I am all for what luxury stands for nowadays but this this is just lovely

09:44and you know you don't need to drive it fast it's it's a car you can should you

09:51need to drive it fast but you don't need to interestingly enough I'm not sure how

09:58much this car has been restored versus the turbo are that I experienced just a

10:05while back it doesn't feel quite as comfortable I am not familiar with all

10:12the systems here and perhaps there is some sort of a suspension setting that I

10:19am not fully aware of that makes this car a bit more comfortable but it's an

10:23observation also I'm not happy with the placement of the shift paddles which are

10:28in the place where I would expect the indicators to be but that's how they

10:35designed it back in the day still most gauges are analog and that's great there

10:41are a couple of screens which one of them the central one may date the car ever so

10:48slightly but it's not terrible great turning circle by the way

11:01speaking of performance hmm the brake performance here is a bit better a bit

11:11more immediate than in the turbo are you can feel 20 years has passed and the car

11:17reacts much quicker to driver inputs especially in the brake department

11:22rather than everybody wondering what the driver had in mind and should we be

11:29braking already or maybe wait a bit more so this is great

11:37six-liter w12 engine all-wheel drive and nearly 560 horsepower in Bentley's tests the

11:44car exceeded 200 miles per hour but the official specification mentions a

11:49conservative 195 miles per hour or approximately 315 kilometers per hour

11:57before we saw any track action i also managed to briefly hop behind the wheel of the 2025 flying spare

12:04the car this time a plug-in hybrid the car is hybrid so

12:11we start absolutely silent

12:35now i see a lot of similarities to the 20 year old car i've driven just a while ago now

12:42of course

12:43this one doesn't squeak or rattle and the suspension is much nicer obviously

12:53we'll see how it goes in a minute when i leave the urban area because right now i'm all in

13:01electric

13:01mode this is a plug-in hybrid so we can't hear much and we are just about to exit the

13:09built-up area

13:10there is of course a car right on my tail but not for long

13:23oh

13:36okay so this is obviously much more modern we have all the speed recognition business and

13:44uh the sensors are much better calibrated than in the other car the steering wheel

13:51somehow seems smaller than in the previous models maybe it's because it's a bit thicker

14:00it's not bmw thick but

14:04it is sort of good to hold

14:09oh i love it through here

14:15shouldn't be doing this

14:18not me i mean me as well but also the car shouldn't be able to do this

14:24so despite having a good turning circle this one is noticeably wider than the other two i've driven

14:32for the first time today i feel that the um that the street is too narrow for for this car

14:39interesting

14:46now that i'm stuck behind a tractor i can tell you a few things about the interior and it's a

14:52wonderful

14:53color combo i like that there is green on the leather and even on the wood veneer here there is

15:05also some brown wood and that also looks absolutely lovely and of course there is a screen it's a sort

15:15of

15:15turn around flip over screen

15:18like in a rolls royce so you can hide it away

15:23but it's there if you need your sat nav settings etc but the most important stuff is

15:30done with physical controls and i like it i appreciate it and

15:37i guess this is a modern luxury going back to physical buttons a

15:44this example was specified as a tribute to the turbo r i drove first the plug-in hybrid powertrain

15:51has a total output of 782 horsepower combining a v8 with an electric motor under optimal conditions

15:58the car can cover over 70 kilometers on electric power alone and has a 0 to 100 kilometers per hour

16:05time of three and a half seconds of course i wasn't able to verify such performance on public roads so

16:10bentley took us to alton park circuit where firstly we were to drive the high and ultra high performance

16:16hybrids and secondly we'll get to that yes 3.2 seconds to 100 kilometers per hour and a 2.5

16:25ton

16:25coupe is impressive as is its incredible handling after a few laps of the track which is over four

16:31kilometers long and has about 30 meters of elevation change i felt like i was driving a porsche okay the

16:37bentley is much more comfortable but when it comes to g-forces i'd really had enough especially as i really

16:45wanted to drive or at least be driven in the new old speed 6 the speed 6 continuation bentley emphasizes

16:54is more than a replica it follows the same design and production methods as the original car this is

17:01the second project of its kind bentley previously resurrected the blower all 12 speed 6 continuation

17:08models found owners before the car was unveiled at the goodwood festival of speed but the opportunity to

17:14be driven in this vehicle was very very special indeed in 1929 and 1930 the bentley speed 6 won the

17:22leman race over 600 parts were needed to replicate the six cylinder six and a half liter engine during

17:28testing these reconstructed engines produced 205 horsepower within 5 horsepower to what the original speed 6

17:35racing engines made in 1930 according to documentation at alton park the six speed continuation reached over 70

17:43miles per hour slightly below what it achieved at lemon 95 years ago but still quite fast

17:49considering the high center of gravity and lack of any safety features honestly in the event of a crash

17:55those helmets we had to wear would only have prolonged their agony but seriously it was a wonderful

18:01experience and perhaps it's a good thing the good people at bentley didn't let us drive this unique vehicle

18:07this is also because some of the guests present probably not only don't know how to drive a stick

18:13but also have no idea what double clutching is

18:30exciting day here at bentley and uh yeah i know it's not my usual review stuff but i hope you

18:37felt some of

18:37the emotions uh that i experienced here and uh yeah regular review coming up next week and now let's look

18:45some more at the uh six speed continuation because that thing is crazy crazy

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