Bentley Continental GT Speed 2021 review - On track in Bentley's finest and fastest - Autocar

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

How do you make one of the world's greatest GT cars even more exciting? Wind up its engine to 650bhp, of course. This is the new Bentley Continental GT Speed, the fastest and most outrageous version yet of Bentley's svelte grand tourer. The headline figure is that 650bhp powerplant, which is good enough to give the 2273kg GT Speed a top speed of 208mph and a 0-60mph time of just 3. 5 seconds. But that's not the half of what makes this car so special. The Speed gets, for the first time on a Continental GT, a limited-slip differential at the rear with clever torque vectoring, and rear-wheel steering, which make what is a heavy, front-engined car (the W12 is 6. 0-litres, don't forget) much more dramatic and agile. This is a GT that likes to oversteer. It'll go on sale late in 2021 and we'll drive it on the road nearer the time, but for now join Matt Prior on a few quick laps of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit, as well as for a walkaround 'unboxing' view of some of the GT's finer details
Date: 2022-04-17

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Comments and reviews: 4

Turbine
The Speed is no faster than the W12 only by 0-60 0. 1 sec top speed 1 mph faster. the old Super Sport is faster than todays Speed. Doing a four wheel steering and a electronic dif. is the only difference. Why call it Speed, Bentley had to call it something and Speed was the only name they could think of. One can tweet the ECU as Bentley have to get that extra speed, but one can get even more from a professional Tuning company.
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Alber.
Not ventilated nor massaging seats are quite disappointing in a car meant to be -GT-, which stands for -Grand Tourism-, that is: large trips drivings. And large trips require the most comfortable seats possible
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Enwin's
Great car. subjective I know, but it is painfully ugly! I couldn't live with that on my drive. Interior splendid as always though
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autos
I think it-s share the same breaks of the Lamborghini urus with giant 440mm carbon ceramic discs with 10 piston calipers?
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