
BOOK REVIEWS, March 1951, March 1951
* BOOK REVIEWS " 500-c.c. RACING," by Gregor Grant. (Fottli, 7, Milford Lane, W.C.2. 178 pp., 108.) Five-hundred-c.c. racing is becoming so rumplicated that this book has come at a…
BENTLEY
The Silent Sports Car
It has no deep roaring exhaust note to indicate the virility of its engine ; neither are the passengers bounced about like peas on a drum. But such evidence is not needed to persuade the occupants of a Bentley that they are going fast. The power is undeniably there ; it is only the noise that is missing. The car combines the energy of an express train
with the silence of a sailing ship. At maximum speed, at minimum speed, and at any intermediate speed it runs like a billiard ball. It is not merely that the Bentley is fast, but that it is fast, smooth, and silent all at once that constitutes its
especial fascination. Vogue