Compare the2023 Bentley Flying SpurVS 2022 Maserati Quattroporte

For enhanced safety, the front and rear seat shoulder belts of the Bentley Flying Spur have pretensioners to tighten the seatbelts and eliminate dangerous slack in the event of a collision and force limiters to limit the pressure the belts will exert on the passengers. The Maserati Quattroporte doesn’t offer pretensioners for its rear seat belts.

The Flying Spur’s pre-crash front seatbelts will tighten automatically in the event the vehicle detects an impending crash, improving protection against injury significantly. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer pre-crash pretensioners.

Both the Flying Spur and Quattroporte have child safety locks to prevent children from opening the rear doors. The Flying Spur has power child safety locks, allowing the driver to activate and deactivate them from the driver's seat and to know when they're engaged. The Quattroporte’s child locks have to be individually engaged at each rear door with a manual switch. The driver can’t know the status of the locks without opening the doors and checking them.

The Bentley Flying Spur has standard driver and front passenger side knee airbags mounted low on the dashboard. These airbags helps prevent the driver and front passenger from sliding under their seatbelts or the main frontal airbags; this keeps them better positioned during a collision for maximum protection. Knee airbags also help keep the legs from striking the dashboard, preventing knee and leg injuries in the case of a serious frontal collision. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer a front passenger side knee airbag.

To provide maximum traction and stability on all roads, All-Wheel Drive is standard on the Flying Spur. But it costs extra on the Quattroporte.

An active infrared night vision system optional on the Flying Spur helps the driver to more easily detect people, animals or other objects in front of the vehicle at night. Using an infrared camera and near-infrared lights to detect heat, the system then projects the image on the windshield, near the driver’s line of sight. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer a night vision system.

Both the Flying Spur and the Quattroporte have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, driver knee airbags, side-impact head airbags, height adjustable front shoulder belts, four-wheel antilock brakes, traction control, electronic stability systems to prevent skidding, crash mitigating brakes, daytime running lights, blind spot warning systems, around view monitors, rear cross-path warning and available lane departure warning systems.

The Bentley Flying Spur weighs 584 to 1334 pounds more than the Maserati Quattroporte. The NHTSA advises that heavier cars are much safer in collisions than their significantly lighter counterparts.

The Flying Spur comes with a full 3-year/unlimited-mile basic warranty, which covers the entire car and includes 24-hour roadside assistance. The Quattroporte’s 50,000-mile basic warranty expires sooner.

The Flying Spur’s corrosion warranty is unlimited miles longer than the Quattroporte’s (unlimited vs. 50,000 miles).

A reliable vehicle saves its owner time, money and trouble. Nobody wants to be stranded or have to be without a vehicle while it’s being repaired. Consumer Reports rates the Flying Spur’s reliability 20 points higher than the Quattroporte.

The Flying Spur has more powerful engines than the Quattroporte:

On the EPA test cycle the Flying Spur running on electricity gets better mileage than the Quattroporte:

The Flying Spur Hybrid can travel with zero emissions for 21 miles. The Quattroporte can’t move without running its internal combustion engine.

An engine control system that can shut down some of the engine’s cylinders helps improve the Flying Spur (except Hybrid)’s fuel efficiency. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer a system that can shut down part of the engine.

Regenerative brakes improve the Flying Spur Hybrid’s fuel efficiency by converting inertia back into energy instead of wasting it. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer a regenerative braking system.

The Flying Spur’s standard fuel tank has 2.7 gallons more fuel capacity than the Quattroporte (23.8 vs. 21.1 gallons).

In its Green Vehicle Guide, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rates the Bentley Flying Spur higher (3 to 5 out of 10) than the Maserati Quattroporte (1 to 3). This means the Flying Spur produces up to 34.5 pounds less smog-producing pollutants than the Quattroporte every 15,000 miles.

The Flying Spur offers a standard sequential manual gearbox (SMG). With no clutch pedal to worry about and a fully automatic mode, an SMG is much more efficient than a conventional automatic but just as easy to drive. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer an SMG or a conventional manual transmission.

For better stopping power the Flying Spur’s brake rotors are larger than those on the Quattroporte:

For better traction, the Flying Spur has larger standard tires than the Quattroporte (F:265/45R20 & R:295/40R20 vs. F:245/45R19 & R:275/40R19). The Flying Spur’s optional tires are larger than the largest tires available on the Quattroporte (F:275/35R22 & R:315/30R22 vs. F:245/40R20 & R:285/35R20).

For better ride, handling and brake cooling the Flying Spur has standard 20-inch wheels. Smaller 19-inch wheels are standard on the Quattroporte. The Flying Spur’s optional 22-inch wheels are larger than the 21-inch wheels optional on the Quattroporte.

The Flying Spur offers active sway bars, which help keep it flat and controlled during cornering, but disconnect at lower speeds to smooth the ride and offer greater off-road suspension articulation. This helps keep the tires glued to the road on-road and off. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer an active sway bar system.

The front and rear suspension of the Flying Spur uses air springs for a smoother, controlled ride than the Quattroporte, which uses coil springs. Air springs maintain proper ride height and ride more smoothly.

The Flying Spur offers an available adjustable active suspension system, which counteracts cornering forces actively, limiting body roll and improving handling and stability. Maserati doesn’t offer an active suspension on the Quattroporte.

The Flying Spur has a standard automatic front and rear load leveling suspension to keep ride height level with a heavy load or when towing. The Flying Spur’s height leveling suspension allows the driver to raise ride height for better off-road clearance and then lower it again for easier entering and exiting and better on-road handling. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer a load leveling suspension.

For better handling and stability, the track (width between the wheels) on the Flying Spur is 1.5 inches wider in the front and .7 inches wider in the rear than on the Quattroporte.

For better maneuverability, the Flying Spur Rear Wheel Steering’s turning circle is 2.4 feet tighter than the Quattroporte’s (36.3 feet vs. 38.7 feet). The Flying Spur’s turning circle is 1.1 feet tighter than the Quattroporte’s (37.6 feet vs. 38.7 feet).

With its sedan body style, valet key and remote trunk release lockout, the Flying Spur offers cargo security. The Quattroporte’s non-lockable folding seat and non-lockable remote release defeat cargo security.

Unlike the driver-only memory system in the Quattroporte, the Flying Spur has standard driver and passenger memory, so that when drivers switch, the memory setting adjusts the driver’s seat, steering wheel position and outside mirror angle and the front passenger seat also adjusts to the new passenger’s preset preferences.

The Flying Spur offers an optional heads-up display that projects speed and navigation instruction readouts in front of the driver’s line of sight, allowing drivers to view information without diverting their eyes from the road. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer a heads-up display.

If the windows are left open on the Flying Spur the driver can close them all at the outside door handle. On a hot day the driver can also lower the windows the same way. The driver of the Quattroporte can only close the windows from inside the vehicle, with the ignition on.

The Flying Spur has standard massaging front and rear seats in order to maximize comfort and eliminate fatigue on long trips. Massaging seats aren’t available in the Quattroporte.

The Flying Spur’s Park Assist can parallel park or back into a parking spot by itself, with the driver only controlling speed with the brake pedal. The Quattroporte doesn’t offer an automated parking system.