Boston-based industrial designer Marc Senger has come out with a new Bentley concept inspired by the famed 1929 4.5 litre Blower Bentley racecar. An alluring modern take on the original’s Vanden Plas Open Tourer styling, the Bentley Dynamo features a 4.3 liter supercharged “blown” four-cylinder engine making for monster power. Back in the day the Blower Bentley – a vintage example of which just sold for $1 million at the UK’s Historics at Brooklands auction – kicked out 175 hp and got about 2.3 mpg. Senger aims for slightly better numbers of course.
With a wheelbase of 110” and killer neo-retro looks, Senger’s Dynamo is a fiting legacy to the Blower, which Ian Fleming chose as James Bond’s original vehicle (it’s featured in three of the 007 novels, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die and Moonraker), and the author himself owned one. We can see the Dynamo being driven by current Bond Daniel Craig should it ever go into production. Sadly it’s probably too far out for Bentley to undertake these days, but one can always hope.
