There are few silver linings to the COVID-19 pandemic, but free-flowing traffic is certainly one of them!
For the essential workers who still must commute each day, driving to work has suddenly become much easier. The same applies to the trucks delivering our surging e-commerce orders. Removing so many cars from the roads has even led to cleaner air, clearer views, and more room for outdoor recreation, even in major cities.
And for the rest of us? Well, maybe it's time to go car shopping again as there’s definitely no better to enjoy the highways surrounding your suburb than now! And the following are some of the top picks from the myriad of automotive releases in our neck of the woods for you to consider.
This article was first featured in The Peak Malaysia's 2/2021 Issue
Bentley Flying Spur V8
When it comes to luxury and opulence, few cars do it better than the Bentley Flying Spur. So, how do you broaden its appeal and improve it? Well, how about a version with a more manageable and lighter powerplant? This is the Flying Spur V8. It’s still 5.3 metres long, laden with kit and trimmed in the finest Bavarian cowhide you can lay your hands on. But in place of the flagship model’s 6.0-litre W12, you’ll find a smaller, but still staggeringly powerful, 4.0-litre V8. produces 550 PS and 770 Nm of torque, the latter peaking at just under 2,000 rpm. Billed as the driver’s choice (it is 100 kg lighter than the W12 variant), this Flying Spur will do the century sprint in 4.1 seconds, before topping out at 318 km/h. To put that into perspective, that isn’t much slower than the W12-powered model, which does the zero to 100 km/h sprint in 3.8 seconds. An eight-speed dual-clutch transmission is standard, sending drive to all four wheels.
