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Why Do People Spend Billions on Luxury Cars? | Bentley CEO Frank Walliser | FO551 Raj Shamani
📅 20 August 2026 at 09:09 pm · Hosted by Figuring Out
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Bentley Motors Chairman & CEO Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser reveals why a car that costs crores still starts with a pencil and clay.
He explains:
◼ Why every Bentley still begins as a hand-drawn pencil sketch before any computer touches the design
◼ How clay models remain the only way engineers can read light and shadow the way a human eye does
◼ Why Bentley employs 5,000 people on the factory floor when robots could technically do the same job
◼ What handcrafted stitching achieves that even the most advanced stitching machine cannot replicate
◼ How Bentley engineers the specific thud of a closing car door to sound expensive by design
◼ Why the Porsche 918 Hybrid broke the Nurburgring record and what that record actually proves about engineering
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:43 - Why Does Car Design Still Start With Pencil Sketches, Not AI?
04:31 - Why Is Every Car First Built as a Clay Model?
07:10 - How Do Aerodyn
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