Bentley Turbo R // The Cure to Modern Car Boredom
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2024
- The Bentley Turbo R will cure your modern car boredom. With it's huge unrestrained turbocharged V8 engine and 2.5 tonne kerbweight, it's a luxury performance beast from another time. What's it like to drive now?
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Car on review: 1986 Bentley Turbo R
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My favourite old school Bentley
What a car JJ and so unusual in soild red. We will never see the likes of this again. Back seat JJ was very happy!
Solid red is the best! 👍👍
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Got one. Love it. Thanks for the post. 👍
Just spent 28 grand on mine. Money well spent in my view.
Best use of an Opel based Vauxhall Royale 2.8 and Mercedes Benz 280S Solex 4A1 4bbl carb. Rolls Royce just added 100 hp from the turbo and encased the French 4bbl carb in a glorious acran black 12 bolt pressure cooker case with 7.5 pounds per square inch of boost at 4500 rpm. That did it! All 519 of the fiest Mulsanne Turbos were 4 barrel carb, the Bosch K Jetronic had to await till 1986. Great to see a carb turbo R doing its majestic stuff on English turf. 🥝✔️
I believe that they did use the Citroen suspension system - unless that was a dream I once had 🤔
Great vid again!
I think you might be right! I heard this after I filmed the video. Makes sense as they were the experts. Cheers!
In fact it uses regular coil suspensions. The Citroën hydraulic spheres are just here as a stabilizer, and only at the rear.
@@Jimmy180-b1n yep. Citroën.
The brakes run on LHM mineral oil as well as the suspension.. there are two reservoirs and systems.. the front wheels have two calipers each, one from each system so if one drops it's mineral oil, the brakes still work. So the brakes use mineral oil and the power steering uses ATF fluid.. Major damage can be done if you use the wrong fluid.. Always use the best petrol, E5 with as little ethanol as possible.. The engine was able to use unleaded from new but E10 can rot rubber fuel components.
Another great video, and hilarious ASMR nonsense, I loved it!
Haha, cheers Daz!
What a machine!!! Peak Bentley
I love 1980s era cars (along with most eras before) and feel the styling trends of the 1990s is where everything car-related started to go bland. This gives me pause to reflect on the situation, and, I now realize that although I don't care for most modern vehicles from a sense of motoring pleasure, and I sure as hell don't like "infotainment" because it has nothing to do with the act and skills of driving, other people can have that. A modern car is fine for ordinary errands and commuting, but on the weekend.... I really don't put many miles on my weekend car, so I have no problem justifying its existence, if that were even the case. Nothing lasts forever, and there is that fine skill of balancing tradition with the future. Yes, may be a dinosaur, but I still the old cars and it will be long after I have passed when they become extinct. I don't worry..... It would be a sin to crush something like this. It was built to last, just as a Mercedes of the era was as well. Nothing comes close to the "veneers" (they're damn wood planks of the highest quality lacquered and polished to perfection. The organ-pull stops for the switchgear and thickness of the leather. Its pure "old money" before manufacturers really pushed the wealthy to get the newest, and "greatest". Myself, had I the money then, I would have bought one and just kept it. None of this trading in on something newer. It can move with the big guys, and absolutely imposing on the road, even in the 30-foot-tall pickup truck dominated roads of the US.
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JJ mate! What can I say? Are we distant brothers or something?
You know how much I love my CLK and now you show me a Bentley! Woohoo!
You won't be at all surprised to know I have a (very late) August '76 Rolls-Royce Shadow will you? Not a Bentley, but as much "Crewe" family as you can get. These are proper cars, carb V8 petrol, powerful, smooth, cathedral quiet and proper switches and dials as you say. Not to mention the obligatory Lambswool Over-rugs ;-)
I can hear some wind noise too, yes, but mainly creaking of the leather and ticking of the clock. Mine is a UK car also, imported to Australia, she has the UK suspension and pillow soft ride.
You don't have a Jeep Commander CRD 3.0 tucked away too do you?
Petrol heads and traditional dials and switches RULE!!
Cheers mate!!!
Haha no way! That's amazing you have that car.
No Jeep commander tucked away but if get offered one I'll review it, just for you 😄
Cheers mate
Another great review!
Thank you :)
Great vid JJ, and a very nice car, it’s like a statement on the road and an occasion getting into one I’m sure.
You were fortunate to get that car to test, a lovely example.
Cheers Will - yes for sure, I think I'd have made this video even if I knew it would get 0 views, just to drive the thing :)
@@JJonCars Yes it was worth it just for the chance to drive one, I’d have done the same thing!
Superb video! Thank you, JJ
Thank you!
The first owner of this car was Mr Oswald Kay, company director in Leeds
Head gasket wasn't an issue until with the models 10 years later and its actually the radiator blocking up. Head gasket is just the weakest link in the chain and then likes to go... Please advise the owner to remove the foot rests from the pockets. They will stretch them out and therefore do permanently damage.
That's good to know, cheers 👍
Hi JJ. What a beautiful motor from a time when it could be said with some justification that the Brits made the best car in the world.
I'm sure that that style of grab handle was in one of my dad's cars, possibly a 1970 Sunbeam Rapier...I loved that car.
Anyway, great review of a fabulous car. Thank you so much.
Hi John. Interesting, perhaps that style of grab handle was an old British style :) glad you enjoyed the vid, cheers 🥂
Thanks for this video, cars have definitely come a long way. More efficient, quiet and smooth. definitely agree with you. Just 'back to basic' with manual switches and dials, if it is not broken don't fix it. These days we all want to 'reinvent the wheel'. Creating new tech for cars, that doesn't really add more than needs to be in my opinion. All these screens are distractions to me, the focus needs to be on the road.
Yep definitely 👍👍
Thanks for fun review. Head gasket failures are more applicable to post 1995 cars. Mine's an 89 Fuel injection @ 110000 miles & no issue. Just don't give it full welly until warmed up completely. 1987 to 1989 20000 series are most reliable & least expensive to maintain & last analog Bentleys. Avoid Carburated early models if you want no solex carb warping issues.
. Buy a Long wheelbase RL for extra leg room in back. Fabulous Motor for the money.
Cheers, good info to know :)
Hi Terry, I also have bought one from 89, a RL, 53.000 miles
Great .Left or Right hand drive?@@SentimentCarsWatches
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I don't know why but this car was in storage for a number of years and then was the subject of some kind of court case where a garage took ownership of the car and then sold it to someone in Brighton and then it somehow ended up at a garage in Leicestershire, traded in against a vintage Austin 7..
I love your content, always soke pleasant surprise 😊
Thank you!
Great video of what is my favourite Bentley! I’ll hopefully be able to review my friends 97’ Turbo RL once it’s back on the road. Didn’t want to hand the keys back over last time I drove it.
Do it! Would like to see that :)
Nice JJ, the pace of the review was spot on I was left thinking of by gone days of individual style cars that were simply beautiful. Nice one JJ look forward to the next review
Ah thank you for saying so Bernard, glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers.
Interesting car 🙂
Sure is :)
Nice one JJ ! Keep up the Good work :-)
Thank you :)
Very good❤
Love the colour...!
Vermillion Red with Parchment Leather Upholstery
You can't beat a good old solid red 👍
Awesome car, the smoke is a bit concerning though.
@@ron2256 From the exhaust?
I can't be absolutely certain but i think that from about 1990, this car may have belonged to a Mr Frank White of the Palm Court Hotel in Scarborough as one of its reg numbers was 900FNW
Good review.. Thanks
Cheers Ron! What a car.
@@JJonCars 😁😁
Subbed mate
Cheers!
You could just get a '99 S430 for a song. Especially with the yummy extra leathery bits. I'd recommend it.
They are very cheap indeed. Though buying one at the bottom end of the market might not be the best financial decision in the long run, as much as I love Mercedes from that era :)
Did I see some blue smoke coming out of exhaust 😮 cheque book Ron 😭
This car is a statement, absolutely gorgeous classic. By the way, is Turbo R like a sporty version of Mulsanne from that era?
Yes agreed! So technically it's a separate model of car which came out right at the end of the Mulsanne turbos life, and kinda replaced it. But it is rather similar.
There was regular Mulsanne and they then introduced Mulsanne Turbo as the performance version. Then they improved the suspension to match the performance so the model name was changed to Turbo R ("R" for Road holding) So yes, it is a sporty version of a Mulsanne.
@@totuudentorvi7781in 1986, a Turbo R travelled 140 miles in one hour and these are UK miles, on the Millbrook Proving Ground banked track, taking the record away from Lamborghini and the only modification was a bigger fuel tank.. there's a CZcams video about it on Flying Spares.
Look at the size of the exhaust housing on the turbo its bigger than the compressor housing
1986 £1.77 per gallon 2024 £1.77 per litre
And 15% VAT..
Have you ever seen a Bentley towing a "caravan"?
No but it could with it's self levelling rear suspension. It's probably too big though as a tow car. And if you have a Bentley, you would probably have a separate campervan or stay in a hotel
Can't say I have. But it would be no problem at all for this beast
A cure to boredom...but not the cure for bankruptcy...
How well does that 408BHP engine shift a well appointed snug that weighs LESS than a 2024 Range Rover? It’s really not that heavy by modern standards and that’s a beefy engine for its day too!
Edit the fuel injected version is 408bhp, shame that’s not one…
Only the very latest versions cracked 400hp. The early FI cars had 330-350 hp.
The mechanical fuel injection is a nightmare if it goes wrong whereas this one would just need a carburettor rebuild. It's plenty powerful enough.
@@ron2256 I don’t disagree with that, I just remember an uncle who had one and commented based on that. Then I edited when I realised JJ wasn’t driving that model.
It does still interest me how well it picks up, but in a loaned car it’s probably not good to abuse it then post footage on YT…
@@HarryBaalzach it's pretty quick, better than some modern cars but imagine 38 years ago when it was new and cars at the time were slower..
@@ron2256 I had a marina back then 😂 0-60? get the calendar out. I’ve got a 1990 Nissan 300ZX twin turbo 330bhp that weighs 1.5 tonnes, also a Lexus RX weighing 2.5 tonnes with 312bhp. I’ve had a 900kg kit car with a rover V8 and recently a Lexus LC500 at 470bhp. The way they all drive is always unique and surprising so a luxury performance car from a great time in British automotive history really makes me want to try it.
I am not actually against electric cars, but I am against the way cars are going. 3 cylinder 1L with a turbo strapped to it.
Why does this video feel like a jayemm on cars video . Are you two related by any chance ?
As far as I know, we're not related. But I do like his videos.
@@JJonCars same here , jayemm and high peak autos is similar in style .
This is the first time I came across you and just subbed , good luck mate . I’m in tech as well lol
@@dinukajkdy3291 Cheers and thanks for subbing! Fellow 'tech bro' 😂
I think this is better than Jay Emm. I like the High Peak Autos guy but he wouldn't really do a video like this. His are about buying a car and overspending on it.. I quite like the Salvage Rebuild UK channel. And of course Wheeler Dealers, they just did a Rolls Royce this shape, the SZ shape it will be on Quest TV, I think soon. But they did a cheap job on it with the paint, spray it on thick.from rattle cans but Elvis did a good job on it.
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Congrats 😄
🥱 And nothing intelligent 🧠 to say or add to the conversation ?. Sad 😔 really !.
Enough of the turtlenecks already
Heavy drinker and a heavy smoker, that one! Must have been an over-rich cold-starter (the carby versions were & are horrible) for the 6.75 to blow blue smoke. Or just neglected. Shame, nice car otherwise.
😂😅 Buy yourself a new Toyota Corolla for 36 thousands with s two ✌ year warranty. Or buy yourself and Rolls_Royce, and spend 50 thousands dollars 💵 plus on making it road worthy !😅.
Your choice
A gasoline automatic instead of a diesel manual is "a cure for boredom"? You must be on drugs!
its just way too slow
In its day it was rapid. Perhaps now compared to the latest performance cars, but it's not slow.
Lovely car - horrible colour!!
I disagree.. it's a lovely colour.. Vermillion Red. It stands out from all the wedding cars.
vermilion Red looks absolutely stunning on the Bentley but probably not so much on the Rolls Royce version.
@@carlread6322 it is nice and it's more unusual.