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Bentley says every car it builds is a blend of luxury and performance, with the Mulsanne taking the luxury ideal to the company’s furthest extreme. Well, if you’re going to go to extremes, you might as well go big, and for the 2017 model year Bentley is adding more luxury to its biggest, cushiest, most expensive car.
Bentley says the 2017 Mulsanne represents a “step change” in refinement and ride comfort over the car it replaces, and it comes in the form of cabin and noise abatement improvements, a stronger structure, and the addition of an Extended Wheelbase model with a wealth of amenities to spoil rear seat passengers. The Extended Wheelbase joins the base model, called Signature, and the more performance-oriented Mulsanne Speed. To show off the merits of its new Mulsanne, Bentley invited Motor Authority to Innsbruck, Austria, to experience all three models in the picturesque setting of the Austrian Alps. Given the company’s claim that the Mulsanne employs everything it knows about building the world?s most powerful, most luxurious cars, we were happy to take Bentley up on its offer.
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Controlled luxury
The Mulsanne replaced the Azure in 2010 as a 2011 model, using a new, dedicated, rear-drive architecture. The 2017 changes are the most extensive since it was released.
With the addition of the Extended Wheelbase model, Bentley engineers employed several measures to stiffen the body to deliver t...