Graham Hill Reviews New Bentley Continental GT

Thursday, 23. September 2010

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The Graham Hill in depth review of a new car has this week focused on the facelifted Bentley Continental GT. It looks nice, as you would expect and frankly I would describe the differences in the look of the car as ‘subtle’. I’m told that every panel of the car is new but the door mirrors are from the Musanne. Great! OK when you get up close you can see that there are changes but they have kept the overall look very much the same but a bit sharper due to a new process called aluminium super-forming. The compulsory led lights now form part of the headlamp and light clusters and the inside has a few more features. They say that rear leg room has been improved by 46mm, in my opinion, having sat behind a 6’2” driver, in the previous Coupe they would need to add a couple of feet to make it anything like comfortable. The car will cst around £130,000 when available from October. A New 4.0litre V* will be available from the end of 2011. The 6.0l twin turbo has a top speed of 198mph and gets you from 0-62mph in 4.6 seconds, so can’t complain at the performance! Would I have one? Probably not as I’m still an Aston Martin man but it is certainly a nice piece of kit! By Graham Hill