Bentley Bentayga: ‘Bursting with superlatives’ | Martin Love

The luxurious 4x4 from Bentley is one of the fastest, most powerful, most luxurious SUVs ever made - but it may leave some of your passengers feeling a little queasy

Bentley Bentayga
Price 135,200
MPG 21.6
Top speed 187mph
0-62mph 4 seconds
CO2 of 296g/km

When the good people of Bentley lend you one of their cars - in this case a Bentayga - it's presumed you'll treat it with respect bordering on grovelling deference. This, after all, is a vehicle that Bentley describes as: "The fastest, most powerful, most luxurious SUV in the world." That's not fake news, that's a fact. So you can imagine my horror when I popped open its cavernous boot to discover our dog had thrown up all over the burnished interior. I already felt guilty about transporting the hound with all the disquietude of drool, mud and fur coming into contact with those acres of buttery soft upholstery - and now the gormless mutt had puked. As I stood on the pavement contemplating the mess and struggling to contain my rising tide of panic, a friendly passerby stopped to have a look. "That really is a lovely car," he said. To my bafflement I realised that it was the comedian Micky Flanagan. What on earth was happening I thought? Is this a prank? One of the country's funniest men thinks I own a Bentayga and, more than that, thinks I've let my dog be sick in it" "Really lovely," Micky said again with a broad smile before wandering off, leaving me alone with what was now the "fastest, most powerful, most luxurious sick bag in the world".