The new Bentley Continental GT Speed is the most dynamic road car in the company’s 101-year history – and that’s not just marketing speak. The Speed extracts even more power from the Continental GT’s 6.0-liter W12, adds poise via all-wheel steering and an advanced suspension setup, and looks even sharper with updated exterior styling and a brand-new “Speed” badge.
By: Jeff Perez – Motor1
By Greg Fink – MotorTrend
Bentley plans to wean itself off internal-combustion engines by the end of the decade, and its latest attempt at embracing electrification comes in the form of the updated 2021 Bentley Bentayga Hybrid. Like the rest of the 2021 Bentayga lineup, the gasoline-electric Bentayga Hybrid benefits from fresh styling inside and out.
As its name implies, the Bentayga Hybrid trades the V-8 engine of the run-of-the-mill Bentayga for a gasoline-electric plug-in hybrid powertrain made up of a V-6 engine and electric motor.
By Ollie Marriage – TopGear
Bentley’s new saloon takes on the biggest, baddest Merc S-Class.
Let’s get one thing straight – neither of these is the best car in the world. It’s been a long time since the luxury saloon was the highest point on the automotive landscape, the pinnacle to which we all aspired. Now it’s a cul de sac off the SUV highway. And the cars themselves have suffered as a result.
Let’s use Maybach to illustrate the point. A proud luxury brand before WW2, Mercedes brought it back in 2002 as a standalone brand, poured millions into the development of two limousines and predicted global sales of 2,000 cars per year. In fact only around 3,000 were sold in total before Merc pulled the plug ten years later. Now, Maybach is little more than a badge applied to the fanciest Merc S-Class.
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By Stephen Dobie – TopGear
It’s the Continental GT V8. It is, in essence, the entry-level Bentley Continental, priced as it is from around £150,000, a whole 11 grand less than the big-boy W12 while nearly 80 kilos skinnier. I want excess though, right? Well, this is hardly a Dacia Sandero where ‘entry-level’ means black rubber bumpers and a gaping hole where there ought to be a radio. A ‘basic’ Bentley really isn’t basic at all. This is still a stupendously well-appointed vehicle, and its 550bhp 4.0-litre V8 isn’t what you’d call meek.
Only 12 of these 659bhp speedsters will ever exist. They won’t all be this yellow, mind
By Ollie Kew – TopGear
Numbers first, because the Bentley Mulliner Bacalar is not about numbers – it’s about details. So we’ll concentrate on the details, and get the pub fact figures out the way right now.
An uprated bi-turbo W12 engine developing 650bhp and 667lb ft. A top speed of over 200mph. 22-inch wheels sitting 20mm further apart than on a Bentley Continental GT. Two seats. 12 to be built. And a price tag, before taxes, of £1.5millon. Which didn’t put anyone off – each Bacalar is already spoken for.
