Bentley Dominator 1994
The Bentley Bentayga is about to fall. His presentation could take place at the Frankfurt Motor Show, in just a couple of months. This super luxury SUV will be presented as the first and revolutionary SUV of the British brand. They will want to make you forget that an off-road Bentley ever existed. It’s called the Bentley Dominator. A much more appropriate name than Bentayga, in my opinion. They were not mass production cars, they were very special machines commissioned in the nineties by the Sultan of Brunei. This is his unknown story.
If we do an exercise of imagination, we can imagine that they mount a propellant Land Rover V8 of moderate power under the hood, but they could also equip the brutal 6.75 twin-turbo V8 of the Bentley of the time. The Sultan never skimped on expenses, and these SUVs were purchased at the height of his automotive profligacy. The Sultan and his brother spent as much as $14 billion on specialty cars during the 1990s, Bentley Spotting reports.
Bentley will not admit to creating this car publicly, or at least not hype its story. The media impact of the Bentayga is necessary, but on the other hand, the order of 24 special cars from the Sultan of Brunei is believed to have kept the company alive. Bentley was on the brink of bankruptcy in the mid 1990s and this order - worth close to £80m at the time - would have saved Crewe’s from demise. But the Sultan was a controversial man