Bentley Mulsanne Le Mans Limited Edition debuts at Pebble Beach

To celebrate a decade since its triumphant sixth Le Mans victory with the Speed 8 in 2003, and 90 years since the first running of the legendary race itself, Bentley has unveiled a limited edition Mulsanne to be sold only in America...

Just 48 Mulsanne Le Mans Editions will be built, available in six separate specifications each celebrating a different Bentley personality - all with at least one Le Mans win under their belts. So, will it be the Tim Birkin or the Guy Smith spec? We know which one we’d choose: the Glen Kidston edition, complete with Dark Sapphire paintwork and sumptuous Imperial Blue/Newmarket Tan leather.  

Features exclusive to all the Le Mans Editions include themed embroidery on all four headrests (there’s a numbered plaque, too), ‘quad-effect’ exhaust tips and 21-inch dark-tinted alloys.

In an interesting move, Bentley has decided to offer the Mulsanne LM exclusively in the United States, with the car debuting at this week’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Bentley is encouraging potential customers to register their interest in the car. With just 48 being built, we’d recommend doing this sooner rather than later. 

eBay replica Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato

eBay auctions have recently brought us a Honda NSX that the owner claims was once the property of Ayrton Senna and various replicas including a Ferrari F40, but none of the machines we’ve brought you so far have been as ambitious as this one. The auction for thiscustom-built 1960 DB4GT Zagato is now over with only two bids having come in, one for $3,200.00 and another for $40,000, which is hardly a surprise given the $2.4million “Buy it Now” price.

The seller’s advert claims 40 years of ownership of a car that takes “almost all of its cues from the classic DB4 Zagato.” A lot of work and a lot of expense when into the build, as the sellers Collector Motors LLC of Houston, Texas, note in their advert. “the frame was sent to world renowned coachbuilder, Clive Smart, at the Shapecraft facility in Newport Pagnell, England.” The work spanned “8 years, 2 continents, countless artisans and over 1 million dollars”.

This DB4 GT Zagato is powered by a supercharged inline six-cylinder taken from a 1997 DB7, which along with the frame and title are the only genuine Aston Martin parts in the car that was basically built from the ground up.

eBay replica Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato

Whether the car is “100% Aston Martin” as the owners claim or not is debated by some, but what can’t be denied is that this is a unique and very individual car so eBay probably isn’t the right place to try and sell it.

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Randy de Puniet believes Suzuki should wild card in 2014

Aspar’s Randy de Puniet, who is also Suzuki’s development rider, believes that the manufacturer should do a few wild card entries next season in order to better prepare of their ‘debut’ in 2015.

The Japanese factory was expected to return to the championship in 2014, but decided to postpone their return until 2015, in order to continue development on their new inline four machine.

De Puniet took part in last week’s private test at Motegi to further develop one of the two chassis configurations and will test that chassis again next month in Misano, but the French rider believes to ramp up the manufacturer’s efforts they need to do a few select wild card appearances.

de Puniet told British website MCN.com: “I explained to Suzuki that it is good to race because you learn so much when you race. I am not the boss of Suzuki but if they are waiting until 2015 they need to make some wild card races next year to learn. It is not the same as just testing.”

If Suzuki should take up their test rider’s suggestion, they would have to field Nobuatsu Aoki (his last appearance in MotoGP was in 2008) as de Puniet would be otherwise busy riding his Power Electronics ART bike.

via TWOWHEELSBLOG