"We are experimenting at the moment with an EV," Bentley's design director Stefan Sielaff said in a recent interview with Autocar. "My instinct is to create an EV which is a very modern step forward. It always has to be a Bentley, but the proportions of an EV will look different."

While some EVs share design similarities with combustion models to prevent alienating customers, Bentley wants its future electric grand tourer to stand out from the competition with a "brave" design.

"If we look at the Taycan, it's still a Porsche. If you look at Tesla, they don't look deliberately dramatic," Sielaff said.