The star of the show of the Bentayga driving experience is the all-new six-liter W12 engine which now makes 608 PS / 600 hp and 900 Nm torque. This is channeled to all four wheels via an eight-speed autobox, and it can hurl itself past the benchmark sprint speed of 100 km/h in four seconds dead, before topping out at 301 km/h or 187 mph.

Performance-wise, you wouldn’t believe just how quickly it accelerates, and since it has so much power, the problem of aerodynamics is less evident than in lesser-powered SUVs - by that I mean it keeps on accelerating well even after speeds in excess of 240 km/h.