Driving Seat: 195mph Bentley.

LUXURY car company Bentley this week unveiled the fastest four-door car in its history as it continued to ponder moving some production from the UK to Germany.

Volkswagen-owned, Crewe-based Bentley, which is considering transferring some final assembly work to Dresden in Germany, took the wraps off the pounds 115,000 195mph Continental Flying Spur at the Geneva Motor Show. The Continental Flying Spur was one of a number of new models shown at Geneva this week.

Among the cars exhibited were the four-door Cadillac BLS due in the UK next year, the 190mph Corvette ZO6, the 6-litre Maybach 57 S, and a prototype of the SEAT Leon.

Mazda lifted the wraps off its new MX-5, Vauxhall showed off its new hot-hatch Astra VXR and Audi displayed its new RS4 quattro saloon.

Also at Geneva, Honda showed off its five-door hatchback Civic Concept, with a styling very close to that of the mass-production model which will be available next year.

Honda, which will make the new Civic at Swindon in Wiltshire, said the concept showed the intention of moving the new Civic into 'amore sporty, emotional and fun-to-drive direction'.

Aston Martin unveiled the production version of its V8 Vantage which will be built at its headquarters at Gaydon in Warwickshire. First shown as a concept car at the 2003 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the V8 Vantage will be available in the UK in late summer

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The Bentley Continental Flying Spur