New inspiration for Bentley

I could have gone to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance last week, but I didn't because they wanted $150 per person for admission. I'm sorry, no.

Anyway, all is well because I was spared from seeing the above Bentley, which is the new Mulsanne. I've loved the recent non-Continental series Bentleys, such as the Brooklands. In fact I've liked just about every Bentley that wasn't a derivative of the Volkswagen Phaeton. Square, antique Britishness.

However. It seems now that the folks at Bentley have got it all wrong. It took me a while to figure out what the car pictured above reminded me of, but I think I've finally figured it out. The designers have been playing too much DragonQuest lately.

The inspiration for the new front-end look:


I did a bit of research and I've found out why they've got it all wrong.
"The Mulsanne is also notable as it is the first flagship car to be independently designed by Bentley Motors in nearly 80 years; the last being W.O. Bentley's iconic 8 litre model in 1930."
Basically, for the last 80 years, they've felt someone else can do the job better, but now they decided to do it themselves.

On a side note: ouch
That's not gone well.