The Bentley Continental GT is the first completely new model made by Bentley since this mark belongs to the Volkswagen Group, and also the first new Bentley since 70 years ago.


The Bentley Continental GT is manufactured in the Bentley plant in Crewe (UK), including assembly of the engines. The designer of the bodywork is named Dirk van Braeckel, who has deliberately avoided a design 'retro'.


It is a coupe motor front, two doors and 2 +2 seats. Move the 12-cylinder engine in 'W' also have the Volkswagen Phaeton, but modified by Bentley. The cylinder capacity remains the same -5,998 cm ³ - but has two turbochargers KKK, with which the absolute maximum pressure supply is 1.7 bars.

What has succeeded Bentley Continental GT with these turbochargers blowing soft is a maximum power and maximum torque for its relatively low cylinder capacity: 560 hp and 650 Nm, but with a maximum torque virtually constant throughout the system useful engine. It and 650 Nm at 1,600 rpm and 644 Nm preserved when the engine turns regime maximum power, 6,100 rpm.

The Bentley Continental GT has some unusual features in very powerful turbo engines: its compression ratio is neither low (9 to 1), has a maximum production nor is low (6,300 rpm) and requires no gasoline for 98 NOT under any circumstances.


Bentley Continental GT

The Bentley Continental GT gearbox is ZF, and six-speed automatic with sequential controls on the steering wheel. According to Bentley, the Bentley Continental GT is the fastest four-seater in the world.


The Bentley Continental GT maximum speed is not self-limiting, and reaches 306 km / h, has a rear spoiler that deploys when the car was moving fast. It accelerates from 0 to 100 kph in 4.7 s (the Mercedes CL 65 AMG makes it in 4.5).


The description of the suspension is the same as that of a Phaeton, parallelogram deformable in the two axes. It also has pneumatic springs and a buffer electronically controlled continuously variable hardness (That does not mean it is the same). It has stability control, disconnect through a button on the dashboard. The series will tire of 19 "in diameter.

Although it has elements in common with the Volkswagen Phaeton is not exactly the same chassis, the Bentley Continental GT has less battle (2,745 mm to 2,881).
It is a four-seater designed for people of high stature, the trunk measured 370 l. Part of the internal volume steals a fuel tank of 90 litres.

The Bentley Continental GT rear seats are folding and offer the possibility of carrying long objects in the interior. The safety equipment is standard in a car together (eight airbags and tensors emergency in all places).

Among the equipment, in addition to the normal range in a car of this price, there are things like a Breitling watch, with the typography of the instrumentation that had the Bentley before World War II.

It will be up for sale gasoline and coupe body in the second half of 2003 for a price without taxes of € 137069. Until now, Bentley Continental GT has received 3,000 deposits account, of which 75 percent are for people who have never owned a Bentley.