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.