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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