Bentley has unveiled the Mulliner Bacalar, a $2 million open-topped car with interior trim that's made from trees that fell 5,000 years ago. Only 12 of these cars will be made, Bentley said.

The company had planned to reveal the Bacalar at the Geneva Motor Show, which was to open Thursday, but that event was canceled due to concerns about the coronavirus. Like many other automakers slated to present at the show, Bentley decided to unveil the car online instead.
The Bacalar is a Barchetta, a type of open car with no roof whatsoever. (The word means "little boat" in Italian.) There's not even a removable cloth top. So, in the event of rain, the Bacalar would be best served by staying in the garage.

The all-wheel drive car is powered by a 650 horsepower 12-cylinder engine and it has an eight-speed transmission. Most of the time, power will go to the rear wheels but it can also immediately be sent to the front wheels as well if there is a loss of traction.

The Bacalar is named after a lake in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula known for its beauty. While it bears some resemblance to the convertible Bentley Continental GTC, the Bacalar shares none of its body parts with that car besides the door handles, Bentley said.

The interior wood trim is made from trees that have been naturally preserved for more than 5,000 years in the rivers, lakes and peat bogs of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

Aging for five millennia in wet soil has given the wood a distinct black color. After being dug up from the earth, the wood was dried in carefully controlled conditions to prevent decay while preserving its natural look, according to Bentley.

Bentley boasts that this naturally sourced wood is one of the car's "sustainable" features. Another is paint made using rice husk ash, a byproduct of industrial rice production. The ash is used to make a substance that gives the paint its sparkle.

Instead of the usual silver color, the badges on the Bentley Bacalar are made from dark bronze with black titanium detailing.

Custom made luggage designed to fit precisely into an open area behind the seats is available from the Italian firm of Schedoni. The luggage can also be made to match the interior of the car. Based in Modena, not far from the headquarters of Ferrari and Lamborghini, Schedoni specializes in producing custom-fitted bags for ultra-high end sports cars.

The Bacalar is intended to be the first in a new line of very rare, highly customized cars that will be produced for a handful of ultra-wealthy customers. The strategy is similar to what Bentley's sister-company Bugatti -- both are owned by Volkswagen Group (VLKAF) -- has been doing in recent years. Bugatti has unveiled a number of specially designed low-volume cars that cost even more -- far more, in some cases -- than the $3 million Bugatti Chiron, the brand's core model.

In the battle for the wealthiest customers, other high-end automakers, such as Aston Martin, have also been creating cars with seven-figure price tags and producing such a limited number of them they could fit easily into one corner of a parking lot.

All 12 Bacalar cars have already been presold to customers, who will work with Bentley's Mulliner division, which makes the cars, to select colors and fabrics. Mulliner once specialized in making expensive horse-drawn carriages beginning in 1760. With the advent of automobiles, it switched to making bodies for expensive cars, including many Bentleys. Bentley purchased the brand in 1959.

source: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/03/cars/bentley-bacalar/index.html

Ok, nice concept but not immpressed because if i am to buy this sport car, and am enjoy my driving on a cool evening time, if the rain start, if i dont pick race to go and dodge somewhere for the rain, people will just be laughing seeing someone wet from ahead to toes with a $2m worth of a car, what a funny vechicle.


Note before you quote me.

According to the post, it says
There's not even a removable cloth top. So, in the event of rain, the Bacalar would be best served by staying in the garage.

HsLBroker:
Ok, nice concept but not immpressed because if i am to buy this sport car, and am enjoy my driving on a cool evening time, if the rain start, if i dont pick race to go and dodge somewhere for the rain, people will just be laughing seeing someone wet from ahead to toes with a $2m worth of a car, what a funny vechicle.

I don't think its meant for climatic regions as ours; besides its just 12 of them to be manufactured coz the wood is 'limited'; more like pre-order

I've never seen a car that costs more than $1 million dollars that's worth it.

Car has to be literally indestructible for me to appreciate it.


There's nothing too fantastic a $1m dollar car can do that a $100,000 car can't do even much better.

Americas grand deception.

GraGra247:
I've never seen a car that costs more than $1 million dollars that's worth it.
Car has to be literally indestructible for me to appreciate it.
There's nothing too fantastic a $1m dollar car can do that a $100,000 car can't do even much better.
Americas grand deception.

Users just enjoy the prestige that comes with using one and can also be customized to their taste

HsLBroker:
Ok, nice concept but not immpressed because if i am to buy this sport car, and am enjoy my driving on a cool evening time, if the rain start, if i dont pick race to go and dodge somewhere for the rain, people will just be laughing seeing someone wet from ahead to toes with a $2m worth of a car, what a funny vechicle.

bros it has a tap cover that you can wind up when such weather occurs.

Waiting for the Vanity crew to arrive

sulaimon22:
Money tinz

Damnnnnn niggarrr
May we not stay broke for too long

pacespot:
These are the gadgets that are pushing people to be chasing money madly nowadays.

Gadgets or no gadgets
We need to huzzle
What money can not do
Too much money will do it
People when go buy this car them nor get two head

This night self me nor go sleep
Once i sit down on top this chair later ehnnn. Na bombing till day break

Nice One

Money tinz

Wickedtruths:


So, you don't know that convertible cars have covers? All you know is to run inside and hide.

This one has the mentality of an okada rider.

obiekunie2:


bros it has a tap cover that you can wind up when such weather occurs.

According to the post, it says
There's not even a removable cloth top. So, in the event of rain, the Bacalar would be best served by staying in the garage.

Ok

These are the gadgets that are pushing people to be chasing money madly nowadays.

This is a collector's item





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Okay

Cool

HsLBroker:
Ok, nice concept but not immpressed because if i am to buy this sport car, and am enjoy my driving on a cool evening time, if the rain start, if i dont pick race to go and dodge somewhere for the rain, people will just be laughing seeing someone wet from ahead to toes with a $2m worth of a car, what a funny vechicle.

So, you don't know that convertible cars have covers? All you know is to run inside and hide.

This one has the mentality of an okada rider.

GraGra247:
I've never seen a car that costs more than $1 million dollars that's worth it.

Car has to be literally indestructible for me to appreciate it.


There's nothing too fantastic a $1m dollar car can do that a $100,000 car can't do even much better.

Americas grand deception.

enjoy your poverty sir

Nice innovation but they should have just said they won't be disclosing the materials they used in making the interiors instead of this white lie of woods that fell 5,000 years ago.. Smh

Just buy the car n park it in a safe place 4 15yrs n resell.

2million naira, I can buy it na

Not my type

Wickedtruths:


So, you don't know that convertible cars have covers? All you know is to run inside and hide.

This one has the mentality of an okada rider.

Lol, you no talk lie abeg

obiekunie2:


bros it has a tap cover that you can wind up when such weather occurs.

it's like u find it hard to comprehend simple English or maybe u chose not to the read the writeup.

Macsjebs:
The Bacalar is a Barchetta, a type of open car with no roof whatsoever. (The word means "little boat" in Italian.) There's not even a removable cloth top. So, in the event of rain, the Bacalar would be best served by staying in the garage.

GraGra247:
I've never seen a car that costs more than $1 million dollars that's worth it.

Car has to be literally indestructible for me to appreciate it.


There's nothing too fantastic a $1m dollar car can do that a $100,000 car can't do even much better.

Americas grand deception.

It's a British car

GraGra247:
I've never seen a car that costs more than $1 million dollars that's worth it.

Car has to be literally indestructible for me to appreciate it.


There's nothing too fantastic a $1m dollar car can do that a $100,000 car can't do even much better.

Americas grand deception.

*yinmu*.. With this your gragra, ordinary venza will calm your tiits..

Rolls Royce over Bentley anyday...
RR Wraith or Dawn.
This is just $250,000.00 yet far better than any Bentley.


I too sabi better thing...Baba God ,I beg you no let me die without living my desired life ooo....