A brand new Bentley Mulsanne has been imported to Hanoi with a hefty price tag of USD1 million.
Mulsanne is Bentley\'s new top-of-the-line flagship vehicle, sold in Europe and many other markets at around USD300,000, but with the high import tax for automobiles in Vietnam, here you have to be much richer to afford it.
Bentley Mulsanne boasts a 6 ¾-litre, 90-degree V8 engine, with 505bhp that generates 1020Nm of torque. According to the automaker, the Mulsanne sedan will reach 60 mph from a standstill in just 5.1 seconds. Keep your foot down for 11.6 seconds, and the 5,700-pound four-door will hit 100 mph (despite toting nearly double the weight, this buffed beauty is quicker than a Porsche Cayman S).
Wrap your hand around the polished stainless steel door handles (the insides have a tactile knurling to delight fingertips) and give it a firm tug. The door glides open, and the interior aroma spills out with it like the intense bouquet of a fine wine.
The cabin is lavish and sumptuous, both driver-focused and passenger-pampering. The twelve-way power-operated heated and massaging seats are as comfortable as your favorite lounge chair but devoid of excessive bolstering, and they offer overly generous fore-and-aft travel on their tracks.
Bentley\'s are designed around the driver, but don\'t be fooled into thinking that passengers are relegated to anything short of International First Class. While the front passenger enjoys the identical accommodations as the driver, the rear passengers (two-plus-one accommodations) relax with eight-way power-operated heated and massaging seats with lumbar support and memory features. Not only are there four individual zones in the vehicle\'s climate control system, but the occupants in the rear are able to move the front passenger seat out of the way (as if the generous legroom simply wasn\'t good enough). The various controls are all smartly tucked out of the way inside the rear center armrest.
The Bentley Mulsanne, arguably the world\'s finest luxury automobile, is a piece of rolling art.
Some more photos of the Bentley Mulsanne at a Auto Salon in Hanoi
In fact, this is not the first Bentley Mulsanne in Vietnam. Before it, another one in silver has been imported to Ho Chi Minh City:
