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The Bentley Bentayga debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2015 as Bentley's first SUV, and was made available as a four, five or seven-seater. The name comes from Roque Bentayga, an emblematic highland rock situated in Tejeda, Gran Canaria. The company also drew inspiration from a blend of the words Bentley and ‘Taiga’, the world's largest transcontinental snow forest, composed of the first four letters of Bentley and an altered spelling of taiga.

It features unibody construction and full-time all-wheel drive, as well as Volkswagen Group's bi-turbo W12 engine and MLB platform, the latter shared with the second-generation Audi Q7, the third-generation Porsche Cayenne, the Audi Q8 and the Lamborghini Urus. 

Its body is manufactured at the Volkswagen Zwickau-Mosel Plant in Germany, then painted and assembled at the Bentley Motors factory in Crewe, United Kingdom. Originally slated by Volkswagen to be produced at the Volkswagen Bratislava Plant in Slovakia, where all other models based on the MLB platform are produced, an agreement was reached with the British Government for the model to be assembled in the UK. Bentley invested £800 million in a new assembly facility there and employed 1,000 new employees to support production of the new model. 

The Bentayga was launched with Bentley's new twin-turbo W12, producing 600hp and 664 lb ft of torque. The engine was fitted with variable displacement technology and could deactivate six of the engine's twelve cylinders if needed. Bentley claimed the 6.0-litre unit is capable of sprinting from 0–60 mph in 4.0 seconds, before reaching a top speed of 187 mph.