Bentley Brings the Torcal to New York — Here’s What U.S. Buyers Still Don’t Know
The Torcal S First Edition spent one night in a West Village gallery alongside a phosphorescent Flying Spur art car. Bentley’s release skips pricing; a $218,000 figure comes from elsewhere.
Bentley's first EV has now been shown to American clients on both coasts. On the evening of October 13 the company parked a Torcal inside CART Department, a gallery in Manhattan's West Village, for a one-night event. Bentley says the car's U.S. debut came earlier in Los Angeles; New York is its first East Coast appearance since the Torcal's global reveal in London last month.
The New York car was a Torcal S First Edition in Sequin Blue, shown with its illuminated diamond grille switched on. Bentley hasn't explained what "First Edition" adds over a regular Torcal S, and the release carries no specifications, prices, or dates.
That last part is what U.S. buyers care about most, and Bentley's own materials still don't answer it. What is known: Mike Sayer, the company's head of product communications, told WardsAuto that the Torcal will start at $218,000 in the U.S. and the Torcal S at $258,000. Bentley hasn't published those figures on its website or in a release, so treat them as guidance rather than an MSRP, and it's unclear whether they include destination. Edmunds lists the car as a 2028 model year and expects the first deliveries next summer; Bentley hasn't confirmed either.
For context, the Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric, which shares its 113-kWh, 800-volt battery with the Torcal, starts at $163,000 before a $2,350 destination charge. The Torcal S gives up 263 hp to the Porsche but would cost roughly $95,000 more. The Bentley, unlike its Porsche sibling, is built inside a 1938 building at Crewe.
The glow-in-the-dark Flying Spur
The Torcal shared the room with a Flying Spur painted by Death Spray Custom, the studio of British artist David Gwyther. According to Bentley, a phosphorescent finish was laid over a black base using hand-cut masking, so the car reads as a high-contrast black-and-white pattern in daylight and glows in the dark once the lights go down. Gwyther kept painting on it during the event.
The car is making its U.S. debut, Bentley says, but the release doesn't say whether it is a one-off or which Flying Spur variant sits underneath. This is Gwyther's second Bentley project this year: he designed the livery on the Continental GT Supersports that Travis Pastrana drove in the FULL SEND film Bentley shot at Crewe, and he previously painted five of Ken Block's Gymkhana cars.
The evening also included a panel with Gwyther, CART Department founder Larry Warsh, and critic Carlo McCormick. Automakers are leaning on gallery settings this fall: GM opened a free concept-car exhibit in its Detroit headquarters lobby in September.
What's still missing for American shoppers is everything that turns a gallery piece into a purchase: an official MSRP, an EPA range figure, an order date, and confirmation of which charging port U.S. cars will use. Bentley has told WardsAuto only that the Torcal will be sold through its existing dealers worldwide; until it attaches U.S. numbers to that, the New York showing is a preview rather than a launch.
