Bentley Mule (????) (Spy)

[Touareg 2.5]

To be completely honest, we were quite hesitant to post these photos of a mysterious Bentley Continental GT coupe that was snapped by one of our spy photographers in western Spain, close to the borders with Portugal. Our man claimed that the Continental GT was equipped with some sort of electric motor / battery pack, visible from the rear window. While it looks like there's something present in the trunk, unfortunately, the photos aren't clear enough for us make a positive ID.

So why did we decide to post these photographs then? Well, thing is that we have been hearing rumors about a gasoline -or diesel- electric hybrid model from Bentley for quite some time now. So even though the positioning of the electric motor/ battery pack (whatever that is in the photos) might seem weird, it could be a prototype model used to test the system.

But without any additional info from a credible inside source, all this is just pure speculation, and we're definitely not in the business of making stories up.

And yes, the thought that the alleged test driver might have been just carrying some sort of equipment in the trunk, did pass through our mind. So for the time being and until we discover something new, just consider this article as a sort of a 'think-out-loud' post. As always, if you have any thoughts -serious or humorous- don't keep them to yourselves, scroll down to the comment section and share them with us.

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E questa che è???

[PaoloGTC]

Come dicono loro, le foto non è che permettano di capire bene cosa sia... mi chiedo se non possano essere semplici (per modo di dire) apparecchiature per i test.

Certo che posizionarle lì però, senza nemmeno un telo a coprire, sembra proprio fatto per dire "guardate guardate qua"

[VeeSix]

Come dicono loro, le foto non è che permettano di capire bene cosa sia... mi chiedo se non possano essere semplici (per modo di dire) apparecchiature per i test.

Certo che posizionarle lì però, senza nemmeno un telo a coprire, sembra proprio fatto per dire "guardate guardate qua"

d'accordissimo su tutto

l'ibrido imho è l'ipotesi più probabile (che sia qualcosa riservato alla nuova Arnage?), tuttavia potrebbe anche essere qualcos'altro...