The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2025 - Issue 37

bitecars BATUR THE BLACK ROSE BENTLEY T hree years ago, Mulliner, the oldest coachbuilder in the world with over 250 years of experience, unveiled the Bentley Batur. The two-door grand touring coupé limited to 18 series embodies a design revolution that guides Bentley’s future Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) range. Like its predecessor, Bacalar, a run of 12 individu- ally specified, designed and handcrafted Bar- chettas, Batur is named after a beautiful lake in Kintamani on Bali, Indonesia. The marque regarded Batur as its most pow- erful Bentley, with a 740+ PS version of the iconic, hand-assembled 6.0-litre twin-tur- bocharged W12 engine. Mulliner’s in-house design team collaborated with the 18 reserved model owners over several months to exclu- sively design their vehicles in their workshop at Bentley’s carbon-neutral factory in Crewe, England. Customers would specify the colour and finish of practically every surface of the coupé to create a car that is as individual as it is. Bentley’s Director of Design, Andreas Mindt and his team, including Head of Exterior De- sign Tobias Suehlmann and Head of Interior Design Andrew Hart-Barron, spearheaded Batur’s design revolution. They utilised the marque’s design DNA that drove the creation of the Continental GT, Flying Spur and Ben- tayga and introduced new themes, approaches and details. Its design principles were pre- viewed to develop Bentley’s first BEV, which is due this year, and its future family of cars. The exterior paint choice starts with the full Mulliner colour palette and travels beyond fully bespoke paint and hand-painted graph- ics. The aerodynamic additions of the front splitter, side skirts, and rear diffuser can be