Bentley Flying Spur
Why 4.5: Doug's Acceleration score (8) is the tell — a W12 hauling 2.4 tonnes still moves with real urgency, more than either Rolls sedan on this list manages. Same valet-line duty, marginally more shove, a badge that lets the owner take the wheel without anyone raising an eyebrow.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The W12 has an unusually dense, smooth hum from its narrow-angle layout, and Bentley lets a little more of it out than Rolls-Royce would. But twin turbos, 6,200 rpm and a cabin built for silence leave it a background presence rather than a sound.
12-cylinder · turbocharged · 6,200 rpm redline · rated 4.5 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €202k (2020) → €147k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Bentley sells its own bespoke-branded child seat cross-listed for the Flying Spur, and OEM leather ISOFIX access lids are a stocked spare part for the rear seat back.
No front ISOFIX documented for the Flying Spur's front seats.
Bentley genuine-parts listings (OEM child seat 3W0860387B / JNV860387A; ISOFIX seat lids) (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
Bentley builds the Flying Spur on a shortened Continental GT platform, which is why it drives with more urgency than the Rolls-Royce sedans it's cross-shopped against despite doing the same chauffeur-adjacent job. The W12, sourced from the same VW Group parts bin that once fed the Phaeton and Touareg, gives it genuine highway shove that shows up in the numbers, not just the marketing copy. Ownership skews toward buyers who split time between the back seat and the front one, a real distinction from the purely rear-seat Rolls customer, even if the resale curve looks similarly steep once the new-model smell fades.