Thruxton at 50: Home comforts
One well-known driver still covets his local circuit, where he remembers halcyon days of a boyhood spent trackside. Writer: Tiff Needell My dad was a regular spectator at Brooklands before…
BENTLEY
The Silent Sports Car It has no deep roaring exhaust note to indicate the virility of its engine ; neither are the passengers bounced about like peas on a drum. But such evidence is not needed to persuade the occupants of a Bentley that they are going fast. The power is undeniably there ; it is only the noise that is missing. The car combines the energy of an express train
with the silence of a sailing ship. At maximum speed, at minimum speed, and at any intermediate speed it runs like a billiard ball. It is not merely that the Bentley is fast, but that it is fast, smooth, and silent all at once that constitutes its
especial fascination. Vogue