The updated Bentayga SUV’s agile-elephant performance is now wrapped in a much more fetching package and accompanied by a handful of lesser updates.
South Africa is always a long way away, but our visit in February now seems distant in more than just geographic terms, coming as it did in the last weeks of a pre-pandemic world. We traveled to Cape Town to drive a late-development prototype of the revised Bentayga, the story set to coincide with what was meant to be the car’s official unveiling in April. The coronavirus changed that plan dramatically, delaying the official launch by more than two months, which explains why you’re not seeing masks or social distancing in any of the pictures from South Africa.
You’re also seeing Bentaygas still wearing the disguise intended to keep the car’s secrets safe from spy photographers, although you can see the finished car in our preview here. The thick plastic cladding actually adds significant mass to the prototypes and had to be carefully designed not to alter their aerodynamic profiles too much.
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