{"id":10805,"date":"2020-07-07T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10805"},"modified":"2020-07-14T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:40:11","slug":"sedan-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/07\/sedan-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedan Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/vehicles\/luxury-sedans-versus-suvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Inside Hook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Luxury Sedan Is Safe From the Scourge of the SUV<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>With Bentley ending production of its flagship Mulsanne, is the category in danger of dying off for good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BY\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/alauer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ALEX LAUER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bentley-Mulsanne-Ends.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000\" alt=\"One of the last Bentley Mulsanne luxury sedans\"\/><figcaption>The Bentley Mulsanne ended production in June 2020, making way for more SUVs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Jerry Seinfeld said, a classic \u201860s Rolls-Royce is not so much a car as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/television\/every-vehicle-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee-ranked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ca nice living room with wheels.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the latter part of the 20th century and into the 21st, however, the marque and its contemporaries all but perfected the car part, too. For much of our modern era, the epitome of style, opulence, exclusivity and leg-room in automobiles has been embodied in the four-door touring sedans made by Rolls, Bentley, Maybach and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the Bentley Mulsanne, a standard bearer for these $100K-plus land yachts, ended production after over a decade in the marque\u2019s lineup. \u201cIt is the last of the great coachbuilt cars. This car is made entirely by hand,\u201d Peter Guest, Bentley product line director, said in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9tZwBGWv4m8\" target=\"_blank\">a video marking the end of production<\/a>. Dave Barton, a production colleague, added, \u201cThere will never be another of its kind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/vehicles\/luxury-sedans-versus-suvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Inside Hook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Inside Hook No Luxury Sedan Is Safe From the Scourge of the SUV With Bentley ending production of its flagship Mulsanne, is the category in danger of dying off for good? BY\u00a0ALEX LAUER As Jerry Seinfeld said, a classic \u201860s Rolls-Royce is not so much a car as&nbsp;\u201ca nice living room with wheels.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}