The new Bentley Torcal

This is the new Bentley Torcal, the first pure electric Bentley in the 107-year history of the company. Or at least part of it. I’d love to show you more and would have done had the good folk of Crewe not seen fit to put my telephone in an opaque and impressively well sealed bag the day I was allowed into the design studio to crawl all over it.

I even sneakily did a sketch of it in my notebook, more to help me remember than with a view to publishing it, but I gave up art when barely out of the cradle and if you saw the sketch – which looks like a turn of the century Crown Victoria after a horrifyingly disfiguring accident and nothing whatever like a Bentley Torcal – you’d understand why.

Torcal. Because I know you’re wondering. So what better could I do than quote directly from the official blurb one of very few bits of information I am allowed to impart before its full global unveiling on the evening of 23 September.