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Bentley has a long-standing reputation for building some of the world’s most luxurious cars and that reputation has been carefully preserved by the company. After all, with the atmospheric prices of their cars, you would hope that they are doing all they can to justify the price tag.

Well if you’re curious to know the production process going on in Bentley, the company was kind enough to give us a glimpse of one of the stages behind the production of their latest flagship sedan, the Mulsanne.
This video takes us on an unprecedented look at how a Bentley Mulsanne is transformed from a plain-looking white body to a glittering and fully-painted vehicle. Fascinating stuff.

The Mulsanne gets six different layers of paint – three for the top coat, and two coats of lacquer – and will be available in both Satin and two-tone versions will be possible.

Bentley also announced that prospective customers can choose from over 115 different colors, 28 of which were created just for the Mulsanne. We didn’t know that you could create new colors, but apparently you can.

Check out the video to see part of the process of how the Mulsanne is what it is – a luxury car of the highest order.

Press Release after the jump

Video: The 2011 Bentley Mulsanne’s Art of Color originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 05:54 EST.

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Back in August Bentley unveiled the their new flagship luxury sedan, the Mulsanne at the world’s greatest classic car show, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Now the high end English coach builder caters to a group of clientele where even excess is never enough. So in an attempt to one up the fixed roof Mulsanne, rumors are flying around that W.O.’s car company is working on a drop head version that will offer the same level of luxury as the hardtop coupe except with a much more glamorous open air driving experience.

The new Bentley Mulsane is powered by a 6¾ Liter V8 that develops a maximum output of 505 HP while at the same time producing a very broad torque curve that peaks at 752 lb-ft of thrusting force. According to Bentley, the new coupe and cabrio versions of the Mulsanne will replace the outdated Bentley Brookland coupe and Azure convertible, two models that have long exceeded their respective life spans. Not to mention that a Bentley Mulsanne convertible would be the perfect vehicle to take on the other drop top super duper luxury coupe, the Rolls Royce Phantom drophead coupe.

Bentley Mulsanne Cabriolet rendered originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:00 EST.

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The British coach builder Bentley has stirred up quite a bit of excitement with their latest object of desire, the Bentley Mulsanne. After debuting at the world’s greatest car show in Pebble Beach, and more recently at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Bentley has made a few more images of the luxury limousine in action. Not only is the automaker showing off the Bentley Mulsanne a thing of grace and beauty on the road, but also as a work of creative art and engineering excellence. As you can see (…)

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Before the 2011 Mulsanne hits Frankfurt for the year’s biggest motor show next week, Bentley’s new flagship sedan has been making a few pit stops along the way. The latest place the Mulsanne was spotted was at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where Bentley COO Christophe Georges invited a number of auto journalists for a quick meet and greet with the Mulsanne. While Georges may have disclosed a number of details – including the mystery of what lies under the hood – (…)

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It’s no secret that the new 2011 Bentley Mulsanne is a lot more expensive than most cars being released these days. And by a lot more, we mean a lot more. Regarded as a luxury car unlike any other, the Mulsanne was created by Bentley with an objective of infusing old-school coach-building techniques with state-of-the-art technology and build a one-of-a-kind luxury car that would be the envy of its competitors.

In this video detailing the construction of the Mulsanne’s body at the company’s production facility in Crewe, England, Bentley’s project director, Ashley Wickman explains the fundamental design for the Mulsanne project from the car’s fundamental designs based on their concepts all the way to the production of each individual panel that will eventually comprise the Mulsanne’s body. According to Wickman, the whole process of building the body of the Mulsanne takes about 170 man-hours of painstaking labor.

It goes without saying that when building a car with the stature of the Mulsanne, even the minutest of details matter, which is precisely why the Bentley Mulsanne is what it is: a super-duper luxury car that a lot of us can only dream of riding – let alone, owning.

Video: A look at the craftsmanship behind the 2011 Bentley Mulsanne originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 5 February 2010 15:30 EST.

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