The new luxury Bentley sedan to be shown in August

On Wednesday company Bentley has released a first teaser photo of the new sedan that will be the successor of Arnage model. As the MotorAuthority.com reported, this car will debut in August, at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance annual festival.

Earlier, in mid-summer, we will be informed about the official name of the new model – so far the new model has the code name Project Kimberly. No technical details about this car are reported. According to some foreign publications, the car will be built on the highly modern modular platform of Audi (the one that was used to create, for example, the new sedan Audi A8). The vehicle will be rear-wheel drive and will be equipped with a powerful V8engine, aggregated with eight automatic ZF. In addition, the new model will be larger than Arnage sedan and luxury, while its direct competitors are Rolls-Royce Phantom and Maybach.

In the future, eight – cylinder turbo diesel or a new gasoline engine that can operate on bio-ethanol can be installed to the new Bentley sedan. It is not yet specified weather a hybrid propulsion system, which has already been tested on a more compact Bentley Continental GT will be available for this new model.

It is anticipated that the new model for Bentley will be shown in fall at the Motor Show in Frankfurt, and the serial production of new products will be launched in 2010. The price of the car has not been reported yet.