Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said North Korea's leader "begged" for their summit to be rescheduled after the US president cancelled it. Speaking at a conference in Israel, Mr Giuliani said Mr Trump's tough stance had forced Pyongyang's hand. Mr Trump called off the summit in May, accusing North Korea of "tremendous anger and open hostility". But plans for the 12 June bilateral in Singapore were revived after a conciliatory response from Pyongyang. Mr Giuliani was speaking at an investment conference in Israel when he made the remark. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Mr Giuliani said: "Well, Kim Jong-un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in." Trump-Kim to meet on Sentosa island What not to say to North Korea Dennis Rodman: The Trump-Kim matchmaker? How Kim the outcast became popular Mr Giuliani is an attorney for the president tackling the Russia collusio...
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Bentley mixes grand luxury and gently overwhelming power
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I went to Portugal not so much to drive a car, but to drive an engine. The engine in question employs two banks of six dovetailed cylinders, 12 pistons total, their combustible mixture fed to them through two twin-scroll turbochargers. The result? 700 horsepower, a figure very few production cars can claim.
That engine comes ensconced in the 2017 Bentley Continental Supersports, wrapping it in a layer of classic British luxury, along with considerable weight. At 14 years old, the Continental platform shows its age in a few concerning ways, but a generational update should be coming soon, making this Supersports a powerful last hurrah.
During a Bentley-sponsored trip to drive the new Continental Supersports over Portuguese highways and on the Autódromo do Estoril racetrack, I came not only to appreciate its careful coachwork, but also the easy manner in which its massive power comes on.
The Bentley Continental Supersports stretching its legs on the main straight at the Autódromo do Estoril.
Between the Lisbon airport and the drive, I had the fortune to ride with Rolf Frech, Bentley's member of the board for engineering, a fancy way to say the Continental Supersports' chief engineer. Frech, splitting his time between home in Germany and the Bentley plant in Crewe, UK, talks passionately about the power of the Volkswagen-derived 6-liter W12 engine in the Continental Supersports. His team redesigned the intake entirely, sourcing the new, high pressure turbochargers, to achieve the target 700 horsepower and 750 pound-feet of torque.
As we talk, I wonder how squirrely the Continental Supersports will get, if that much power will leave me sitting in a ditch on the side of the road. Frech mentions a new torque vectoring system, using individual wheel braking, to help the car's handling, which doesn't entirely reassure me.
Later, I meet Paul Jones, Product Line Director for the Continental, whose gentlemanly English accent makes it seem like he represents the car's fine coachwork, its diamond-pattern two-tone leather upholstery, chromed organ-pull vent controls and Breitling clock set into the dashboard. In reality, he evinces the same passion for power as Frech, with both being motorcycle aficionados.
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Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said North Korea's leader "begged" for their summit to be rescheduled after the US president cancelled it. Speaking at a conference in Israel, Mr Giuliani said Mr Trump's tough stance had forced Pyongyang's hand. Mr Trump called off the summit in May, accusing North Korea of "tremendous anger and open hostility". But plans for the 12 June bilateral in Singapore were revived after a conciliatory response from Pyongyang. Mr Giuliani was speaking at an investment conference in Israel when he made the remark. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Mr Giuliani said: "Well, Kim Jong-un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in." Trump-Kim to meet on Sentosa island What not to say to North Korea Dennis Rodman: The Trump-Kim matchmaker? How Kim the outcast became popular Mr Giuliani is an attorney for the president tackling the Russia collusio...
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