Bentley Motors has expanded its bespoke exterior satin paint finish range to 15 unique colour options, responding to customers’ desire for even more opportunities to personalise their Bentley cars. The expanded palette offers a diverse choice, from classic and understated tones to bolder and contemporary colours to ensure that there is a perfect option to complement every Bentley model to its owners liking.
Every Bentley that features a satin finish takes up to 55 hours to be painted, with the finish hand-applied by Bentley’s craftsmen and women in the Excellence Centre for Bespoke Paint. The car first arrives in its gloss colour, before being hand-sanded, cleaned, masked, then dusted and cleaned again before a clear lacquer is hand-applied in two stages in order to achieve a perfect and uniform satin finish. As with all Bentley vehicles, each car is inspected and signed off by an independent Production Quality Team that ensures every surface of every panel will exceed the customer’s expectations. In the future, all satin paints will be applied to Bentley’s cars in its new, state-of-the-art Paint Shop, which is due to be completed in 2025.
After drawing inspiration from design technologies and trends to identify new colours to suit our customers preferences, each satin paint finish is developed by a team of experts at Bentley’s Dream Factory in Crewe, England, undergoing a meticulous set of testing processes that ensure the paint finish reflects Bentley’s commitment to the finest craftsmanship, quality and durability across every aspect of its cars.
Every Bentley that features a satin finish takes up to 55 hours to be painted, with the finish hand-applied by Bentley’s craftsmen and women in the Excellence Centre for Bespoke Paint. The car first arrives in its gloss colour, before being hand-sanded, cleaned, masked, then dusted and cleaned again before a clear lacquer is hand-applied in two stages in order to achieve a perfect and uniform satin finish. As with all Bentley vehicles, each car is inspected and signed off by an independent Production Quality Team that ensures every surface of every panel will exceed the customer’s expectations. In the future, all satin paints will be applied to Bentley’s cars in its new, state-of-the-art Paint Shop, which is due to be completed in 2025.
After drawing inspiration from design technologies and trends to identify new colours to suit our customers preferences, each satin paint finish is developed by a team of experts at Bentley’s Dream Factory in Crewe, England, undergoing a meticulous set of testing processes that ensure the paint finish reflects Bentley’s commitment to the finest craftsmanship, quality and durability across every aspect of its cars.
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00:00 The inspiration for the new satin colours starts off as research at trend shows that
00:10 we go to, whether it's Milan, Paris, London, and we look at interior design, product design,
00:16 all areas of design that give us a window into future colours and trends and finishes.
00:23 I'm a painter and a panel beater by trade, and I am proud of being a painter. It's something
00:28 that you can't read a book and spray a car, it's something that takes years to learn.
00:35 And when you look at how we process the cars in this area, it harks back to a different
00:40 age and it is so reliant on the skill and the passion of the colleagues and the care
00:47 that they put in their work that gives us that end result. If customers saw the way
00:54 these cars were produced, the sheer amount of physical work, the care and the attention
01:00 and the skill level that went into them, they would really appreciate what's involved.
01:07 So to process a satin car is incredibly labour intensive, it is 90% hand worked, it involves
01:14 the car coming in in a gloss condition, the car is then hand sanded and cleaned multiple
01:20 times and masked and cleaned again and then the lacquer is hand applied in two stages
01:27 in order to achieve an even uniform finish. The satin paint finish is unique because it
01:33 scatters light rather than reflects it. It highlights the shape and the form and the
01:40 styling lines of the car differently to how a gloss finish would. The process at Bentley
01:47 for finishing satin colours is with a base coat and a clear coat by gloss, then it would
01:52 be hand prepared, sanded down, cleaned, dusted, recleaned and then two layers of satin clear
01:58 coat would be applied, which leaves us best in class. In order to achieve the required
02:03 finish, all the vehicles are bought off by an independent production quality team who
02:08 will thoroughly inspect that car to make sure that every single panel and every single surface
02:13 of the panel is to the required standard.
02:40 (whooshing)