Bentley has updated its flagship grand tourer with new technology, improved performance, and enhanced craftsmanship. A test drive through the Swiss Alps revealed a car that is faster, smoother, more efficient, and even better than before.
Continental GT and GTC Speed. As regular as clockwork, Bentley updates and overhauls its flagship grand tourer every few years, adding in new technology, burnishing the capabilities and expressive outlets of its team of craftspeople and generally making things faster, smoother, more efficient and, well, better.Given that the last iteration of the GT was pretty good, all that remains is to mark this new one down as excellent. Job done, then? In many respects, yes.
The GT has always been a handsome car, although Bentley’s attempts to crystalise its weighty handsomeness into a three-pronged design ethos – ‘resting beast,’ ‘upright elegance’ and ‘endless bonnet’ – feels a little forced. Suffice to say that the GT’s resting beast face is attached to a truly elegant car, a machine that takes full advantage of its mighty scale to create excellent proportions.
It’s not uncontroversial to say the GT is too fast even for an autobahn, that last bulwark of automotive libertarianism. Despite that lurid, headline-grabbing figure and the bragging that’ll inevitably accompany it, the new Bentley Continental GT Speed represents a colossal achievement, a new summit for luxury motoring.Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design.
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