Driving Bentley's new SUV

Optional expenses

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Since it's a Bentley, the Bentayga is available with a ridiculous number of options, and that's not even including "whatever you want" if you have the money to pay for it. For instance, you can ask for exterior paint matching the color of your favorite socks, or what have you. Bentley's paint experts are more than happy to mix it up for you.

Among my favorite options is a set of "picnic baskets," to hold dishes, a blanket, chilled wine and other good things for an afternoon in the country. You can also get a padded bench that slides out from the back of the SUV providing a nice elevated seat from which to sip your chilled wine.

If you really want to send the price tag of your Bentayga skyward, there's the Breitling Tourbillon clock. It's a mechanical clock rather than battery-powered; it has to move to stay wound. So an electric motor spins it around every now and then. At a cost of $170,000 for just for this one option, Bentley expects to sell four of them a year.

First published May 27, 2016: 11:59 AM ET

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