这是vision of bentley's first ever all electric car，an elevated sporting sedan with three seats and a design that draws on the company's rich heritage of grand taurus。
这是exp15，it's a high riding crossover that gives us a glimpse as to what future bentley's will look like as saloons like the most sand fall out of favor and suvs like the bentaga gain in popularity cars with these proportions and ev power trains are likely to play a much bigger role in the luxury space。
exp15 is inspired by a mythical bentley speed six coupe wearing a three seater body by gurney nutting。
it was nicknamed blue train after its custodian bentley chairman wolf banato raced against a locomotive the famous le clan blur from kan arriving in london before the train even reese cali an admirable feat in an admirable car which is given birth to the exp fifteen。
some design highlights well even though it's an electric car and it doesn't need a grill to cool an internal combustion engine it still has a front grill partly to remain faithful to what we've seen from previous spently design and partly to serve as a piece of digital artwork。
look closely and you'll see these kind of triangle sections just here backlit of course and those are actually designed to mimic the diamond quilting that you find on current bentley interiors we've also got a central stripe backlit of course which mimics the design of the vertical headlights at the top of the grill we have a brand new bentley wing badge now these will make their debut on future bentley's going forward and bentley say that where the previous badge had the wings of an hour these have the wings of a falcon on the top we have a new flying b badge again this will deploy automatically when you lock and unlock the car or at the press of a button inside the vehicle and this is much less anatomically correct with few of feathers and it looks far more contemporary than the previous design as for the bonnet very long in typical bentley fashion but take a closer look and there are some new details these are leather straps but they have a purpose they actually serve as part of the opening mechanism for a pair of piano hinged doors that give you a new flying b badge again this will deploy automatically when you lock and unlock the car or at the press of a button inside the vehicle and this is much less anatomically correct with few of feathers and it looks far more contemporary than the previous design design as for the bonnet very long in typical bentley fashion but take a closer look and there are some new details these are
·access to what could be the mother of all front boots very clever and i don't think i've ever seen leather in the exterior of a car before in profile the exp 15 has a very cab rear wood design where the cabin sits more towards the back of the vehicle than the front it's predominantly monolific with smooth upright panels taking up two thirds of the surface to one third taken up by the cabin in this area you'll find a backlit side vent ultra skinny cameras that serve as door mirrors and huge aero optimized alloy wheels。
·the exp 15 also has what bentley referred to as arresting beast stunts where the rear haunches bulge outward like the rounded shape of the bent up a legs of a big cat preparing to pounce on its prey but perfectly horizontal not leaning forward aggressively or leaning back lookinglazy at the back of the exp 15 it's all about large clean surfaces plus these enormous real lights and then at the center the new bentley b badge underneath you get a huge diffuser and interestingly up top two active spoilers。
·bentley also promises the addition of two deployable picnic seats which allow you to open the boot and enjoy our fresco dining with your exp 15 here's something else that's interesting this car has three doors so on the driver side there's only one door for the driver but on the passenger side there are two plus no b pillar and you know what that means the rear door opens like a suicide door and the front door is hinged normally and opens conventionally then you look inside and you realize there are also only three seats one for the driver and then two at the rear with a space next to the driver for your luggage or an optional dog box for your ferry friend if you choose not to carry a dog that rear seat can actually slide forward and become the front seat or as a driver if you get fed up with your passenger you can actually move them back to the rearmost position interestingly this rear seat can actually rotate to allow you to more easily get in and out of the car the interior isn't quite complete yet so we can't show you too much of that except to say that it was designed using virtual reality software and mixes bently stable such as luxury seating and
·exclusive materials and a wing shaped dashboard，a sprinkling of digital displays，that can be adjusted depending on driver mood likewise，there's not much to be said of the car's drivetrain or performance，except of course，that it will be all electric and its design，will inspire bentley's first production electric car，due to be revealed as early as 2026，will it look anything like this，we'll have to wait and see，but what's clear is that the exp fifteen isn't really a car，it's more a message that luxury，can be reimagined that performance，doesn't have to shout that silence，can be aspirational and more importantly bentley can and will evolve。