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2006 Bentley Arnage R Review
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TO THE POINT What's New? The newest upgrades to the Bentley Arnage are round headlights, a revised bonnet line, and a choice of grilles. Inside, ergonomics have been improved, secondary controls are now hidden under panels, new instruments and a DVD satellite navigation system have been added, and Bentley will dress the car in your choice of 40 colors and 27 leather options.
Selling Points: Exclusivity and myriad ways to customize it to specific tastes
Deal Breakers: Price of entry is excessively high, lacks the latest technologies and luxuries

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2006 Bentley Arnage R

As expected, the mostly hand-built Bentley Arnage has impeccable fit-and-finish. Inside and out, panels are flush and seams are straight and tight. Small hand-built character flaws are apparent, like door hinges in need of a good smoothing before the painting process, but these small imperfections tend to be acceptable given the assembly process. Our test car did, however, have issues that were unacceptable at any price, hand-built or not. The navigation screen would only intermittently raise and lower, and never did activate so that we could test how easy it was to program, the passenger's side front seatbelt jammed and took a bit of fiddling to get it working again, the brakes and driver's door squeaked, and at the end of our testing the remote keyless fob wouldn't unlock the back doors or release the trunk.


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