Because opulence knows no bounds including the sound barrier, Bentley, makers of massive luxury cars for the semi rich or semi famous have decided that their flagship model, the Mulsanne needs more speed. Indeed, the British make will be adding quite a bit of speed to the Mulsanne, the cars normally rated for around 505 […] More »

4,839lbs. 60MPH in 3.6 seconds. Dear Physics, I have decided your laws are stupid and I don’t want to listen to them anymore. Sincerely, The Bentley GT3-R. I saw the Bentley GT3 concept, and it was the best-looking Bentley I’d ever seen. It sat so low it was like someone had poured white chocolate pudding […] More »

With a top speed of 175 mph, the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S is a sports-car-quick SUV. Bentley intends to make that suffix stand for “Slow.” According to Autocar, the Crewe company is developing its upcoming rig to peg its speedometer at – wait for it – 200. That means design chief Luc Donckerwolke and his […] More »

Porsche and its parent company Volkswagen had a great 2013.  Picture it this way: Every time someone drove a P-car out of a dealer’s lot, they left behind a bag with $23,000 in it.  The Stuttgart company then booked that as pure operating profit. While Porsches are relatively low-production cars, at 18 percent, they’re high-margin. […] More »

There are “chick” cars, “green” cars, practical cars…and then there are “bad boy” cars.  Apparently, that’s what Lamborghini makes.  The Sant’Agata supercar maker’s former chief operating officer, Michael Lock, recently said, “Lamborghinis are associated with socially illicit behavior.” Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in “The Wolf of Wall Street” certainly hasn’t helped that perception. Lock also said […] More »

I’m not going to lie.  Given the amount of things in which he’s appeared (TV shows, movies, commercials), I honestly thought Larry the Cable Guy recently made a guest appearance on The Fast Lane Car. He did not.  It turned out to be Nathan Adlen, TFLCar.com’s senior editor and presenter.  Oops!  (I blame the similar […] More »

We first caught a glimpse of Bentley’s race car concept at the LA Autoshow. Under the convention center lights, it looked horribly out of place among it’s posh brethren. It’s a Bentley Continental for chrissakes. That’s a car built for power cruises up the French Riviera, not dicing it up with Porches down the Mulsanne […] More »