According to Bentley’s new boss, Wolfgang Durheimer, the company will build a GT2 version of the top-selling Continental sports car next year. The Bentley Continental will weigh 441 pounds less than the standard GT and will produce around 650-hp – a 100-hp upgraded than the regular coupe. That will allow 0 to 60 mph to [...]
In celebration of Bentley’s world ice speed record breaking run by rally champion Juha Kankkunen, Bentley announcd today that it is building a limited-edition Supersports ‘Ice Speed Record’ Convertible. Only 100 units of the Bentley Continental Supersports Ice Speed Record Convertible will be built. Click here for our original post on Kankkunen’s world record setting run. [...]
We briefly heard somewhere that Bentley will be launching a special-edition Continental Supersports at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. While that may just be a rumor for now, the luxury car brand confirmed today that it has teamed up with its leather partner Ettinger to produce a range of personal accessories that will be launched [...]
As announced yesterday, Juha Kankkunen, the four-time rally champion, drove a Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible on the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Finland, to a eye-watering top speed of 205.48 mph. Kankkunen ended up breaking his own 2007 world ice speed record of 199.83 mph. Bentley has now released a video [...]
Bentley currently has four models in its lineup including the Mulsanne, Brooklands, Azure T and the Continental lineup (which consists of four different versions including the Continental GT, Continental GTC, Continental Flying Spur and the Continental Supersports). The company’s bosses are now trying to beef up the lineup with some new additions. The new models [...]
Most of us here in the Northeast know what it’s like to drive on ice – it’s quite dangerous, annoying and tricky. Not for Juha Kankkunen. The four-time rally champion recently drove a Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible on the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Finland, to a eye-watering top speed [...]
The Bentley Continental GT has always received mixed reviews. By all means, it is a biblically fast car with it”s twin-turbo W12 engine. But it never really captured the essence of British engineering”¦well, mainly because it was designed and built by the uber-engineers at Volkswagen AG, and was based off of a platform that was [...]
German tuning firm Wheelsandmore has revealed its latest supercar, the Bentley Continental Ultrasports 702. Based on the Bentley Continental Supersports, the Continental Ultrasports 702 gets a reworked ECU and new stainless steel exhaust system to boost power by 71-hp for a total of 692-hp (standard Continental Supersports makes 621-hp). The modifications help the car hit [...]
The Bentley Continental Supersports Coupe is the fastest Bentley ever produced. But to make it one of the fastest Bentley vehicles ever, the uber-luxury brand had to drop things like rear-seats. Nonetheless, those still looking for some practicality, Bentley has decided to offer two rear seats as an option with the Continental Supersports Coupe. The [...]
Bentley today showed its new Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible at the 2010 New York Auto Show. At first, we thought that the paint job on the exterior may glow in the dark, turn out, it’s just a really bad color choice. Moving on… Refresher: Power for the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible comes from a 6.0L [...]
