Bentley Flying Spur comes with eye-grabbing interiors

KUALA LUMPUR: The British automaker, by no means, wants to compromise on quality. Bentley designs and builds world-class interiors, in fact, offers an array of options, as many as 14 interior leather hide colours with a choice of contrast thread 23 different colours. No wonder why it accumulates so much praise from around the world.

Nothing is different when we talk about the Flying Spur limousine’s interior, it comes with the “most luxuriously-stitched cabin” that uses 350 distinctive leather pieces for adorning 60 different parts. The process requires more than 3 km of thread to achieve desired results, while each piece passes through the hands of 141 craftsmen.

The leather has been sourced from Northern European bulls. Bentley has said that sourcing leather from temperate climate zones help them to be sure of more blemish-free and lesser parasites. Talking about the steering wheel, it comes with 168 unique cross-stitches that have been created with the help of 5 metres of thread sewed through 352 holes. This process usually takes three and a half hours to complete, according to Bentley.

For assembling four seats inside the cabin, the workmen require 12 hours since everything is done by hand and not machines. A customized Bentley could get you Bentley wings on the headrests, which comprise of 5,103 stitches. The doors come with three-dimensional diamond-quilted leather that’s inspired by the brand’s EXP 10 Speed 6 design concept.

Achieving such perfection is difficult, hence Bentley’s Master trainers provide a minimum of five months of training to learn techniques and process for making interiors of the highest standard.

In Malaysia, the Flying Spur comes powered with a 6.0-litre W12 petrol engine that’s capable of generating a max power of 624 PS and a peak torque of 800 Nm. Further, there is a 4.0-litre V8 turbocharged variant that pumps out 507 PS of power and 660 Nm of torque. The W12 is capable of clocking 100 Kmph from zero in just 4.6 seconds, while the same can be done by V8 in 5.2 seconds.

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