New Bentley Mulliner Batur to be unveiled on 21st August

Unfortunately, we haven’t really seen anything of it yet. We only know what Bentley has told us, which is that the Batur will launch a new design language for Bentley, ‘that showcases themes and forms that will define Bentley’s future range of Battery Electric Vehicles’. An important one then, though we don’t even know what kind of car it will be, only that it’s a ‘new exclusive, hand-built grand touring Bentley’. Does that suggest Batur is another Continental-based special, as was the Bacalar? We’ll have to wait and see.

Like the Bacalar, the Batur is named after a large and beautiful body of water, which in this case is Lake Batur, an 88-metre deep crater lake in Kintamani on the Indonesian island of Bali. Very exotic.

If you weren’t already familiar, Mulliner is Bentley’s special projects division, not unlike that which produces Ferrari’s ‘P’ and Icona series cars. These are the cream of the crop and Bentley says, a return to traditional coachbuilt principles. The Bacalar was a series of 12 Continental-based speedsters, each costing well over £1.5million before taxes. Expect the Batur to be similarly rare and similarly pricey, when it’s revealed on 21^st August.