British luxury car manufacturer, Bentley, reiterated his intention to produce a variant Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) super luxury four-wheel drive (4×4) and launch in 2015. But this time instead of the scheduled launch is confirmed. Reported by autocar.co.uk, Monday, October 10, 2011, the manufacturer has now started to release some of the specifications of the engine. “We use 12-cylinder gasoline engine. Therefore, we make it as car bosses,” said Wolfgang Dürheimer, Chief Executive of Bentley.

But the manufacturer is likely also will produce diesel version, shortly after the petrol engined version was launched. The reason, or 12 cylinder V12 engine that will be promoted – both petrol and diesel engines – in the SUV was also used by the latest generation of Audi Q7 SUV.  The engine capacity of 6000 cc V12. Audi – who also like Bentley is under the umbrella of Volkswagen (VW) AG – claiming the machine that carried besutannya was capable of producing 493 horsepower.

Interestingly, Bentley hire Porsche AG’s chief engineer, Rolf Frech, and mendapuknya as head of the project of cultivating these SUVs. Frech which replaces Ulrich Eichhorn, Bentley’s chief engineer before, are considered to have high expertise in terms of technical engineering SUV. He included the work on the Porsche Cayenne SUV.

So why insist on the luxury car manufacturer entered the SUV market? “Because 99 percent of Bentley owners have an SUV in their house,” I Dürheimer. On the other hand, he added, the car manufacturer who has marketed luxury SUVs, such as Ag Porsche with the Porsche Cayenne, Land Rover Range Rover, as well as with the Audi Q7, been considered not to increase super luxury SUV variant of it became. “And we’ll do it,” said Dürheimer.