Heavy hitter
Bentley Continental Supersports £212,500
WE SAY JUST WHAT THE CONTINENTAL NEEDED ! MORE POWER" MORE QUILTING
Supersports is an emotive badge for Bentley# and this is the first time it’s graced one of its cars since +**,& Back then# it was effectively the final iteration of the MkI Continental# and its .+-bhp# +*0mph top speed and ),*lb ft made it the fastest Bentley to date& The first Supersports# incidentally# dates back to -,+)# when its 1)bhp and -**mph potential were the stuff of fantasy&
While no one at Bentley would use a phrase as gauche as “run"out” special# an all"new Continental is due this autumn# so the return of the Supersports represents a robust last hurrah for the company’s imperious coupe& It’s also the new fastest and most powerful Bentley ever# and will be limited to (-* units# its power output in PS# coincidentally&
Visual differences run to gloss "black bonnet vents# new front and rear bumpers with carbon"fibre splitter and diffuser# a rifled exhaust tailpipe# and a rear spoiler $though not on the convertible%& Even more arresting is the torque figure ' ()*lb ft from +#*)*rpm ' while the torque curve itself isn’t a curve so much as a lofty plateau high enough to induce nose bleeds& Compared with its immediate predecessor# the new Supersports has an extra (,bhp and -.*lb ft# of torque# which translates to zero to .+mph in /&)secs# *'-**mph in (&0# and a top speed of +*,mph& Given that it weighs +#+1*kg $0* less than the GT Speed# whose suspension