Bentley EXP15 Concept.

ghastly | ˈɡastlē | adjective (ghastlier | ˈɡastlēər |, ghastliest | ˈɡastlēist |) 1 causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre: she was overcome with horror at the ghastly spectacle. 2 extremely unwell: he always felt ghastly first thing in the morning. • deathly white or pallid: a ghastly pallor | [as submodifier] :  he turned ghastly pale and rushed to the bathroom. 3 informal very objectionable, bad, or unpleasant: we had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses. 4 Bentley EXP15 concept

Yes, this new Bentley concept is the very definition of Ghastly. A design that is trying so hard, it becomes painful to look at.

It basically looks like a new Volvo EV. Which, no matter what, would be much cheaper than a Bentley. It also looks a lot like a cross between that new Volvo ES90 sedan and the awkward Mazda MX-30. Neither should cars be an inspiration to anyone.

While I am a big fan of anything with a rear hatch, this just doesn’t work. At all. Again, that shape looks cheap, and the Volvo lights shouldn’t be used on a Bentley. Ever.

The grille itself is also something that should never exist. On that Volvo/Mazda mashup design, it looks like someone added the largest, most vulgar grille they could design to a mundane, generic car shape. The whole thing is just terrible…

Unfortunately, the official word is: “EXP 15 represents Bentley‘s design vision for the future”. Which i quite a sad statement.

Let’s just hope their upcoming EV SUV wasn’t influenced by this.

Whilst the exterior is quite revolting and unpleasant to the human eye, I think the interior looks very nice. A very nice update on the current Bentley interior design theme.

I wonder how many future Bentley models have been designed with this monstrosity as an inspiration, but the future doesn’t look bright for Bentley…