In the last few years, high-end luxury/performance SUVs have massively grown in popularity. Many of them are essentially built and designed for buyers who would typically purchase an exotic car, but who wants the extra space of an SUV. To appeal to these types of buyers, Bentley created the Bentayga.
Instead of building an SUV with a V6 or V8 performance engine, Bentley went completely over-the-top in typical fashion and gave the Bentayga a twin-turbocharged W12 engine. With such an insane engine, the Bentayga has some pretty impressive performance in stock form, outputting 608hp and 664lb-ft of torque. While that’s a lot of power, it’s not everything that the W12 engine has to offer.
Luckily, we had the chance to install our VR Tuned ECU flash on a local customer’s Bentayga at the Vivid Racing headquarters. As usual, we started with a baseline power run to see what kind of power the Bentayga is actually putting to the ground in stock form. With a solid baseline run, we can easily see the power difference from stock to tuned.
With our all-wheel-drive Mustang dynamometer and high ambient desert temperatures, we expected to see around a 20% drivetrain loss when performing the baseline run. We ran the Bentayga three times to get an average power figure and to ensure we have an accurate number.
- Run 1: 563whp and 694wtq
- Run 2: 568whp and 714wtq
- Run 3: 577whp and 696wtq
- AVG: 569whp and 701wtq
That’s obviously a huge amount of power in stock form and we were very impressed with the Bentayga. With the baseline runs completed, we flashed the ECU with our VR Tuned software which takes about 10-20 minutes in total.
With the Bentaya properly flashed we turned it back on, got changed into a captain’s jacket, and began our dyno runs. The important thing here is the difference in horsepower and torque compared to stock. Not too surprisingly, we found huge power gains from the midrange all the way to redline, where the tuned Bentayga output nearly 625whp and nearly 750wtq!
Power isn’t everything and our VR Tuned ECU flashes also aim to improve fuel economy, throttle response, and drivability, all while keeping everything as reliable as possible. Predictable, the Bentayga was insanely fast during our test drive.
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