Intercontinental fashion: Bentley's new Continental Flying Spur is so much more than a rehashed version of the GT on which it is based, as the intensive development program highlights

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Here's what Cameron Paterson, head of engineering for the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, codenamed BY611, wants you to know: this car was designed and engineered at Crewe in Britain, by a predominantly British team. The proud, passionate Scot acknowledges his boss is German (Ulrich Eichhorn, director of engineering), and that some cars will be assembled in a VW plant in Germany, but he can't seem to stress enough that the key word is "assembled" - all the components will be manufactured in and shipped from Britain,, A nice touch from VW's management is that all right-hand-drive models will only ever be built in Crewe, by British workers for British buyers.