The Bentley Hunaudières is a concept car

Concept car

A concept vehicle or show vehicle is a car made to showcase new styling and or new technology. They are often shown at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not have a chance of being produced....

 built by Bentley

Bentley

Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later...

 for the 1999 Geneva Salon International de l'Auto

Salon International de l'Auto

The International Geneva Motor Show is an annual auto show held in March in the Swiss city of Geneva. The show is hosted at the Geneva Palexpo, a convention centre located next to the Geneva Cointrin International Airport...

. It is powered by a Volkswagen

Volkswagen

Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...

 8.0-litre, naturally aspirated, W16

W16 engine

A W16 engine is a sixteen cylinder piston internal combustion engine in a four-bank W configuration. All W16 engines consist of two 'offset double-row' banks of eight cylinders, coupled to a single crankshaft....

 engine that generates 623 bhp of power at 6,000 revolutions per minute and 760 newton metres (560.5 ft·lbf) of torque at 4,000 revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...

 in conjunction with a five-speed manual transmission

Manual transmission

A manual transmission, also known as a manual gearbox or standard transmission is a type of transmission used in motor vehicle applications...

. It is capable of a 350 kilometres per hour (217.5 mph) top speed.
The Hunaudières' name pays homage to the famous straight of Circuit de la Sarthe

Circuit de la Sarthe

The Circuit des 24 Heures, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe, located near Le Mans, France, is a semi-permanent race course most famous as the venue for the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race. The track uses local roads that remain open to the public most of the year...

 where Sir Tim Birkin

Henry Birkin

Sir Henry Ralph Stanley "Tim" Birkin, 3rd Baronet was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.-Background and family:...

 in a "Blower Bentley" overtook Rudolf Carraciola in a Mercedes-Benz SSK

Mercedes-Benz SSK

The Mercedes-Benz SSK is a roadster built by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz between 1928 and 1932. Its name is an acronym of Super Sport Kurz, German for "Super Sport Short", as it was a short wheelbase development of the earlier Mercedes-Benz S...

 at 125 miles per hour (201.2 km/h) with one wheel on the grass down the Hunaudières straight.

Video game

The Bentley Hunaudieres was featured in 2000 video game, TOCA World Touring Cars

TOCA World Touring Cars

TOCA World Touring Cars is a racing video game developed and published by Codemasters, and released in 2000 for PlayStation and Game Boy Advance...

as an unlockable car.

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