The white Bentley Flying Spur with a red leather interior is a four door Bentley sedan based in Los Angeles, the only sedan in our fleet, for a booking that needs a back seat and real luggage room. This is the V8 Flying Spur, lighter and more vocal than the twelve cylinder version. Book it for a formal dinner or an airport run.
Start with the V8, not the badge. Bentley builds this Flying Spur with 100 kilograms less weight over the front axle than the twelve cylinder version, and you feel it the moment you turn onto Mulholland Drive, where the nose answers the wheel rather than following a beat behind it. The 4.0 liter twin turbo pulls hard from low in the rev range, 0 to 60 in 4.0 seconds, and the exhaust builds from a low burble at a stoplight on Sunset to something closer to a growl once you are past the canyon's first few bends. All wheel drive and adaptive air suspension keep the body flat through direction changes that a car this length has no business handling this calmly.
White and red is the combination that photographs as ceremony rather than stealth, and it is the pairing to shoot with a door open. Park it against the palm trees on Rodeo Drive or the glass front of a West Hollywood hotel and the white body reads clean rather than flashy, formal enough for a red carpet arrival. Open a rear door and the red leather is the reveal, the one frame that tells a stranger this is not a black town car. Shoot the front three quarter low to hold the long bonnet and the single headlamp, then close in on the red hide against the white door card.
This is the only Flying Spur in our fleet, so the choice is not between colors, it is between this car and the rest of the Bentleys we run. Pick it over a Continental GTC when the booking needs four doors, a back seat for a guest, and a boot that can actually hold luggage for an airport run. Pick it over the Bentayga S when the day calls for a sedan's low, formal roofline rather than an SUV's height. White over red keeps the exterior restrained for a daytime arrival and gives the cabin its own presence once the doors open. It is the Bentley in our fleet built to do more than one job well.
This is the Flying Spur in its V8 specification, a four door, five seat Bentley sedan finished in white over a red leather interior. The 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 makes 542 horsepower and 568 lb-ft of torque, sent through all wheel drive and an eight speed gearbox, with adaptive air suspension and Torque Vectoring by Brake standard on this trim. A V8 badge on the wing and quad exhaust finishers are how you tell this car from the twelve cylinder version at a glance. Inside, the cabin runs the organ stop metal vents and knurled controls Bentley fits across the range, with red hide set against white door panels and a Breitling clock on the dash.