{"id":2247,"date":"2021-01-10T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2021-01-10T21:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T21:09:56","slug":"no-bentley-diesels-coming-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"No Bentley diesels coming &#8230; for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the seemingly bottomless pit of torque available from a big turbodiesel engine would seem to be more in character for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bentley\/\">Bentley<\/a> than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> system, it looks like the latter might be the first option for the VW-owned British brand. The relative lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> interest in Bentley&#x27;s biggest market, the U.S., might be too blame. According to AutoTelegraaf, Bentley is reluctant to spend the money to develop a new diesel engine right now. However, given that most Bentley&#x27;s are powered by a turbocharged version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/\">VW&#x27;s<\/a> W-12 engine, using another engine from the family would seem obvious. With the 6.0L V-12 TDI going into production for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/audi\/q7\/\">Audi Q7<\/a> later this year, it doesn&#x27;t make sense <em>not<\/em> to use a version of it in a Bentley.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;sl=nl&#038;u=http:\/\/www.autotelegraaf.nl\/&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=translate&#038;resnum=1&#038;ct=result&#038;prev=\/search%3Fq%3DAutoTelegraaf%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Djnx\">AutoTelegraaf<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/cars\/bentley\/bentley-rules-out-using-diesel-for-now\/\">MotorAuthority<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/03\/26\/no-bentley-diesels-coming-for-now\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-03-26T08:40:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the seemingly bottomless pit of torque available from a big turbodiesel engine would seem to be more in character for a Bentley than a hybrid system, it looks like the latter might be the first option for the VW-owned British brand. The\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14433,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/14433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}