M Bugatti’s jibe about Mr Bentley making the fastest lorries in the world may turn out about right. A Bentley SUV, and a diesel to boot, says Autocar, is a foregone conclusion. Nothing wrong with that. They should have done it years ago. The Bentley Countryman was a sort of estate car, built by Harold Radford on Mark VIs in the 1950s, with a back that opened up for picnics or carrying Labradors. Now it will be the EXP 9F based on the next generation Audi Q7, and it will share underpinnings with the Porsche Cayenne. It is likely to be built on bodies made in Germany and then finished in Crewe. The result will be a splendid posh estate car, something Bentley owners coveted for years, since days when they built huge formal saloons on 3 Litres and 4½ Litres to WO's chagrin. He thought he was making sports cars and was so put out at the stuffy bodywork his customers were imposing on them, that he brought out the 8 Litre to compensate. Which led, in turn, to M Bugatti’s taunt about “Le camions plus vite du monde.” It is a long way from EXP 2.