The production of the exclusive Bentley Bacalar is about to end, but the customization division already has a spare part. And it won’t take long to arrive, because the British firm has already announced the first teasers of the Bentley Mulliner Batur, the great novelty of the Pebble Beach 2022 Concours of Elegance.
Bentley has big plans, and not just for the more distant future, but for something more immediate. Because the British firm, about to complete the production of the exclusive Bacalar and that will happen before the end of the year, already has a replacement for customers who have not been able to access such a succulent roadster. Is named Bentley Mulliner Baturand will be presented in a few weeks, in the face-to-face edition of the Pebble Beach Pageant of Elegance 2022.
The great Monterey Motor Week, in California, which will be held from next August 21, will have this new model among the attendees, of which for now the only thing that is known is its name and of which a minimal part of the front has also been seen . So minimal that you can hardly see part of a very sporty lattice of the radiator grille, decorated in black and with red highlights, adding the emblem winged Bentley in a new location.
Bentley Mulliner Batur, preview of a one-off and a new style
Despite the fact that it is a special announcement with the stamp of the Mulliner customization division, the British brand has pointed out a very important detail, and that is that the new Batur is also the conceptual advance that will mark the design line of future productsso it is also a demonstrator of the new design philosophy that will prevail in the new models included, especially the electric ones.
A very interesting advance because some of the characteristic features that will advance will later be transferred to the exclusive GT with crossover aptitude that the brand is preparing as a 100% electric successor of the old Mulsanne. This model, which is being developed together with Audi and Porsche, is the third of the ambitious Artemis project, and is known internally as «Landjet». It will be commercialized in the middle of the decade, in 2026.
Bentley has not provided more information on the exclusive Mulliner Batur, opening all kinds of speculation about this one-off, which can be completely new or based, once again, on the Continental GT W12. What is not a coincidence is that its commercial name has the same first syllable as Bacalar. The two one-offs are named after two spectacular lakes, the first in Kintamani, Bali, and the second from another in Mexico.