In addition to his duties running the one-model Bugatti lineup, Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen also heads up Bentley. This meant a repeat performance at tonight's Volkswagen Group event for the introduction of the Bentley Continental Supersports.
We've already told you just about all there is to know about this car in earlier posts, so consider this another chance to admire those shiny black wheels against all that glossy white paint. Did we mention this thing runs on corn? -- Ed Hellwig, Lead Senior Editor, Inside Line
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firstwagon says:
05:10 PM, 03/ 2/09
Seems to me there is something very wrong about a car designed for the extremely rich burning fuel made from food when people are going hungry in many places.
How many bushels of corn does it take to fill this thing up anyhow?
smilez says:
10:59 AM, 03/ 3/09
you're not serious right? You're not saying this car takes the food out of the mouths of the hungry, right?
firstwagon says:
01:18 PM, 03/ 3/09
Not literally no.
But using food crops to make fuel when there are shortages in some parts of the world is a bad idea. Even if it didn't create shortages, it would increase the world price making it scarcer in low income countries.
Running a car like this on "corn" makes a great symbol of how wasteful and uncaring the weathy are.
smilez says:
03:07 PM, 03/ 3/09
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think that all of the high-end companies like Bentley are going to switch to biofuel. Not to mention...how many of these things do you think they'll sell? Not enough for a low income country to complain that much.
cwc1 says:
05:47 PM, 03/ 3/09
It's not the wealthy you're thinking of who are responsible for high corn prices due to ethanol - the ones who conveniently and predictably escape from responsibility are the wealthy elitists in our government who have mandated increasing the usage of ethanol, believing they know better. And they most certainly don't.
Bentley is just promoting this thing running on ethanol for good PR because ethanol has been made a politically correct alternative fuel. Whether it actually helps anything or makes it worse instead is irrelevant - it's the image that's important. Such is the increasing ease to which we succumb to propaganda.