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" Once upon a time, the Bentley was a boring cousin to the Rolls-Royce, a &amp;quot;nest of hides,&amp;quot; as its sales brochure put it, with a $1,300 option for whiskey decanters and a set of nip glasses. Once upon an even earlier time, the Bentley was a snarling four-wheeled terror, the dashing English ride of gentleman racers. Now, with German ownership by way of Volkswagen, the British Bentley is recapturing some of the speedy charm of those storied drivers.  Of these, none was more colorful than Woolf Barnato, a diamond magnate who led the marque to wins at Le Mans in 1928, 1929, and 1930. On a bet made one vinous evening at a restaurant in Cannes, the sportsman decided to race the famed French Blue train from Cannes to Calais. He bet he could reach London in his Speed Six Bentley (with a cross-channel assist from a packet steamer) before the Blue arrived at the station in Calais. Both left Cannes at 5:54 in the evening, and 22 hours and 34 minutes later, Barnato eased up to the curb of the Conservative Club on St. James Street a full four ticks before the frog locomotive made the platform.  The new Bentleys--the Azure and the Arnage--tap into this spirit, but it&amp;#039;s the latest concept car, dubbed the Hunaudi\u00E8res, after the fabled straightaway at Le Mans, that truly recalls Barnato. The Hunaudi\u00E8res, above, is nothing less than a supercar, with a 16-cylinder engine that looks as if it could power a space shuttle. The exterior doesn&amp;#039;t look too old-fashioned, either. Even so, a certain British reserve clings to the car: Bentley does not claim the car is fast, just &amp;quot;long of leg.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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