Residing on the Higher East Aspect of Manhattan means I get to see plenty of high-end autos owned by individuals who stay nearer to Central Park than I do. For essentially the most half, they’re your run-of-the-mill wealthy man vehicles: Mercedes-Benz S-Courses, BMW 7-Sequence, Vary Rovers and Escalades dominate the streets. However, typically I get a deal with – a really uncommon deal with. You see, I simply stumbled upon one of many rarest autos I’ve ever seen: this Bentley Bentayga Stetson Version parked on Lexington Avenue.
On the face of it, seeing a Bentayga – particularly in a extra prosperous neighborhood just like the UES – isn’t all that thrilling. Nonetheless, one small batch on the D-pillar offers it away that this Bentayga is one thing pretty particular and extraordinarily uncommon. Again in 2019, Bentley wished to enchantment to Texans (I suppose), so like a truck maker, it constructed the aforementioned Bentayga Stetson Version – a automotive I didn’t know existed and is deeply unusual. On the time, it price $246,578 (about $303,000 in right now’s cash), based on Autoblog. Oh, and it was solely out there at Bentley Dallas, and so far as I can inform there are solely three in existence. No, I’m not joking.
The wildest Bentley within the west was a team-up between Bentley’s Mulliner division and the hat-maker Stetson. It was initially offered in simply three completely different colours – Onyx, Darkish Cashmere and White Sand. Nonetheless, the one I noticed was completed in some form of pearlescent white, so maybe it has been wrapped or repainted. Powerful to say. The wheels have additionally been painted black to provide it that low-cost look everybody must be after.
Anyway, on the surface, it doesn’t look too completely different from a traditional Bentayga, however the inside actually has some alterations. Mulliner put in a three-tone leather-based inside (all completely different shades of brown), Autoblog reported again in 2019. To let you already know what you had was particular, the seats, door panels and ground mats all featured diamond-quilted designs. Moreover, “boot stitching” was used all through the automotive to remind you of toes, I suppose. There have been additionally plenty of “STETSON” embroideries all through the automotive. The most important eye-catcher might be the open-pore liquid amber veneer, which was minimize from American Crimson Gum timber within the U.S. only for the Bentayga Stetson Version.
Below the hood, the Stetson Particular Version needed to make do with the Bentayga’s commonplace engine: a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that pumped out 542 horsepower and 568 lb-ft of torque. That’s greater than sufficient to maneuver this mass of leather-based, wooden and badging round Manhattan with swiftness.
I also needs to observe that every Bentayga Stetson Version got here with an identical Stetson cowboy hat. How incredible is that?
As I discussed, I consider there are simply three of those in existence. From a couple of studies I learn when the truck first got here out, Bentley Dallas acquired one in September, October and November of 2019, after which they fell off the face of the earth. If somebody can discover extra Bentayga Stetson Editions, I’d be completely satisfied to amend my story, however I don’t assume you’ll. She’s a uncommon hen this one.
Simply how or why this Texas-exclusive Bentayga ended up in New York Metropolis is anybody’s guess. I waited round for some time to see if the proprietor confirmed up, however my goals have been larger than my bladder, so I went house. Perhaps I’ll run into them sometime and can be capable to wrangle some solutions out of them about whether or not or not they nonetheless have the matching hat.
