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Car of the Month - December 2004
The Geneva Salon was chosen – though Spring 2004 could be considered a rather early date - to launch the Model Year 2005 of Bentley Arnage R; at the same time 2005 alterations as regards the Bentley Arnage T became series standard. A major reason had been to bring the range ‘in line’ with essential design elements of the Bentley Continental GT. By direct comparison to the Bentley Arnage having been made up to then two separate round headlamps each side instead of twin headlamps covered under one glass were noted. The traffic indicators positioned in the front fenders had gone; indicators now were located inside the unit that housed Xenon dip beam (the second unit housed Halogen full beam). At a second glance a revised bonnet line became obvious, no longer was the bonnet ‘divided’ by a centre chrome strip.
The interior had become subject of an up-date too, e.g. An up-date interior design showed a new dashboard top and what were described as ‘non-critical controls’ in Bentley parlance hidden behind veneered panels. Access to such secondary controls needed to move the panel first. |
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The basic price of ca. £160,000 (EUR 216.000) was just that, a basis. Most customers did order extras from Mulliner packages or did insist on particular details to be added as per their personal specification. In conjunction with varying amounts of VAT – depending on individual markets – a considerable amount could be added to the basic price. The subject of coin however didn’t seem to be a prohibitive barrier. Neither any idea that perhaps within the rather near future the 4-Door variants might be substituted entirely by a new model range developed from the Bentley Continental GT. The sales figure of the Bentley Arnage was higher than the combined sales figures of the competing models, the Rolls-Royce Phantom and the Maybach.
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