Bentley Bentayga V8-S 2024
Effortless power for Siena day trips beyond the ZTL
- 2024
- Seats: 5
- 550 hp
The Bentayga V8-S occupies a specific place in a Florence rental: it is the one vehicle in the fleet built to feel formal without feeling stiff. Where a sports convertible asks for good weather and an open road, the Bentayga works in a dinner jacket and in a work suit alike, which is why it turns up as often at a wedding arrival outside a villa in Fiesole as it does collecting a corporate party from Peretola for a Pitti Uomo appointment. Four seats of genuine width, a cabin finished to a standard that does not need describing twice, and enough presence at the kerb to matter on a day when appearances are part of the brief. Mechanically it carries the V8 weight well — quick enough to close distance on the autostrada toward Pisa or Lucca, composed enough that a driver unfamiliar with Tuscan hill roads is not fighting the car on the way up to Fiesole for an evening arrival. It is not the vehicle for a solo blast through Chianti's back lanes; it is the vehicle for the day that involves other people, luggage, and a schedule. The 2024 Bentayga V8-S is offered as a single variant here, from €1450 per day. As with the rest of the fleet, handover is arranged at the airport, at Santa Maria Novella, or at a Lungarno-area hotel rather than inside the historic centre — Florence's camera-enforced ZTL and the shortage of centro parking make that the only practical way to start the rental, whatever the occasion on the calendar.
Effortless power for Siena day trips beyond the ZTL