IT’S A 4DR CONTI GT

Also known as the new Bentley Flying Spur – the sportiest luxo-limo there is

Does a limo need to be good to drive? Bentley certainly seems to think so. This is the new Flying Spur, and it’s had heaps of driver-focused tech thrown at it to ensure it’s the company’s deftest saloon car yet. Chauffeurs have never had it so good.

There’s all-wheel steering to make it nimbler at low speed and more stable at high speed, while its active AWD system defaults to RWD, only utilising the front axle when things get really slippery. Even then, only 31 per cent of torque will be shuffled up the front if you’ve prodded the Spur into Sport mode.

With its 6.0-litre twin-turbo W12 producing peaks of 626bhp and 664lb ft, there’s still more than enough left over for the slidey end of the car, not to mention achieve a wonderfully pointless 207mph top speed. Bentley even touts “best in class” body stiffness. If you’re worried that’s all a bit unbecoming for those sat in the back, then a new three-chamber air suspension system

apparently offers huge breadth between comfort and sportiness for when you (or your driver) ramps the modes back down.

In fact, when it comes to comfort, Bentley has gone to town. There’s 130mm more in the wheelbase, all-new heated, ventilated, massaging seats and you can have a wholly glass roof with – naturally – colour-matched Alcantara sun blinds.

Then there’s the central ‘Toblerone’; the triangular prism that rotates like a 007 number plate between a media screen, old-fashioned dials and a wood veneer which offers “a complete digital detox”. One that’ll be promptly interrupted by the most powerful of the Spur’s three stereo options, given its 19 speakers and 2,200 Watts.

Bentley’s Mulliner department offers a dizzying array of customisation, too, right down to 3D quilted leather for the doors and a jewelled-finish oil cap. Which explains why it weighs 2,435kg.