1999 Bentley Arnage Green Label

The Arnage and its Rolls-Royce sibling, the Silver Seraph, were the first all-new cars from the Vickers establishment in decades. As part of their updated image, they had their ancient pushrod motors replaced with 4.4L BMW V-8 powerplants.

These DOHC 32V mills were more efficient and powerful, especially the Cosworth-massaged twin-turbocharged variant in the Bentley, which thumped out 349 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque. The German magazine Auto Motor und Sport got a '98 Arnage to 100km/h in 7.3 seconds and to a top speed of 149mph.

Alas, the Green Labels are rare because Vickers was in the process of having its car brands carved off by the German automakers BMW and Volkswagen. BMW got Rolls-Royce while VW got Bentley, and it simply would not do to have a Volkswagen subsidiary buying motors from their rival in Bavaria, so the Red Label Arnage was launched with a refreshed 6.75L pushrod twin-turbo L-series V-8.

The one in the photos, which I think is in Dark Sapphire Pearl, was photographed with a Leica D-Lux 3 in February of 2017.