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Smooth Ride, Hard Drive: Bentley and Ego launch $20k laptop

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$20,000 seems like a lot of money for a laptop computer, and it is for ordinary people like you and me. But in case you hadn’t noticed, we’re not the type of customers to whom Bentley caters. The stoic British automaker exists at the upper crust of the automotive elite among the kind of people from whom $20k is chump change to pay for a computer that will match their car perfectly.

With them in mind, Bentley has teamed up with Ego, an aptly named fellow outfitter to the obscenely wealthy, to produce this exclusive notebook computer. The specs are fairly straightforward: 64-bit processor, 160GB hard-drive, Windows Vista…but as we initially reported when news of the Ego Bentley first surfaced, the detailing is what sets it apart. The laptops are hand-built like a top-of-the-line Bentley, but inside out, with diamond-stitched leather and knurled aluminum trim on the outside and the buyer’s choice of color options for the interior panels. Only 250 examples are being offered, which is just as well because we doubt there are many more consumers in the world than that who possess the means and inclination to buy one. For the rest of us, we can check out the press release after the jump and images in the gallery below.

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ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

While most vehicles leaving the Crewe factory in England are bound to spend their whole life without any sort of customizations, there are some owners who wouldn’t mind jazzing up their Bentley. One of the few tuners that specialize purely on Bentley cars is a Japanese firm called ASI which stands for “Accuracy Spirit Imagination”. ASI’s latest proposition concerns a full bodykit for the drop top Continental GTC.The package comprises a front bumper spoiler with a carbon fiber lip and LED daytime lights, side skirts, a rear bumper with a carbon fiber lip and exhaust cutter and finally a discreet boot spoiler made out of -you guessed it- carbon fiber. The aero kit is complemented by a set of 22-inch alloy rims wrapped in 265/30 tires up front and 295/25 at the rear.

ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

ASI Tunes the 2009 Bentley Continental GTC

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Bentley Continental GT Black Bison Edition by Wald

Japanese tuning house Wald International has a wide range of styling and performance kits for nearly every major luxury car brand on the market. It’s no surprise the company has turned its hand to one of the most exclusive and powerful cars on the planet, then, and the resulting restyle shows some characteristic Wald touches along with a flair unique to the Continental GT mega-coupe.

The new kit offers a significantly more aggressive look for the Continental GT owner not satisfied with the reserved yet muscular look Bentley imbued the car with at the factory. Adding larger, more angular front intakes with a separate brake duct and a lower splitter, the front of the car looks much more purposefully fast than the stock car. A slightly wider side-sill treatment flows to the rear side skirts, which receive Wald’s trademark shark-gill extractor vents behind the rear wheels.

A custom diffuser under the rear end looks like more than just a pretty piece of molding, and coupled with the bootlid spoiler, should help improve downforce at speed. The Continental GT’s front extractor just behind the front wheel is left untouched.

Aside from the spoiler at the back of the car, the kit builds on the Continental GT’s basic look, adding aggressive styling to match the powerful engine unde the hook The kit is still in the development stage is expected to be released later this year

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2008 Bentley Brooklands

the Brooklands coupe, the new range-topper from Bentley, is a magnificent absurdity. Standing blunt and foursquare, the nearly three-ton four-seater from Crewe is as incongruous as the ballerina hippos in Disney’s Fantasia. Like them, it is implausibly graceful and capable in motion. On the face of it, the fact that one of the most beautifully finished cars ever built is capable of running with ultimate two-seat sports car from Italy and Germany on twisting roads is absurd. That this huge mass can go from rest to 60 mph in a mere five seconds, and that it can go on to 184 mph on its standard tires, is frankly incredible. But absolutely true.  Everything about the Brooklands is over the top, whether one is talking about the biggest brakes offered on any production car or the most completely leather-lined cabin available today (even the headliner is made with flaw-free leather from contented cows). This is a car of extremes, which is as it should be. There’s no point in paying some $350,000 for a car unless it possesses qualities that lesser vehicles do not. This one does, in spades.

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