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Bentley plans to add four-seat sports car, crossover to lineup

Bentley Motors is looking to add a four-seat sports car and a crossover vehicle to its lineup, using borrowed platforms from Volkswagen Group siblings Porsche and Audi, its top executive said. In an interview during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Bentley CEO Wolfgang Duerheimer said the crossover would borrow from the Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne platforms. While the crossover may carry a V12 engine like the rest of the Bentley lineup, Duerheimer said, "not everyone needs to have a V12." Duerheimer, who oversaw Porsche's push into SUVs as the company's development chief, said he "knows what is possible" in bringing a luxury brand into new segments.

The Petersen Museum isn't going belly up

I hate writing columns like this, the kind where one media outlet calls out another's mistakes. There but for the grace of God go I and all that… But the shrieking and hysteria over the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles going to hell in a handbasket -- that's what the LA Times reported -- is over the top, and it's turned into a fiasco. Here's the background.

Audi TT RS Plus unveiled

There’s a new, more powerful TT – the Audi TT RS Plus The Audi TT RS Plus – a mode powerful and focused TT RS – has been revealed ahead of its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. At the end of January we reported that the Geneva Motor Show would see the debut of a more powerful Audi TT and a new RS4. So it’s no surprise that we now get news of the more powerful TT – the Audi TT RS Plus – ahead of its debut next month.