Bentley Continental Sports: Speed record on ice in a convertible

Holiday on Ice, it was probably not what the Finnish four-World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen on the Baltic Sea experienced - rather exciting experience. In a Bentley Continental Super Sport convertible, he swept across the frozen sea off the coast of his homeland. He set a new speed record. At the Geneva Motor Show on 3 to 13 March 2011 presented to the manufacturer is a limited edition of the extreme-Bentley of 100 copies.
Over 330 km / h: police confirmed measurement
Measured the speed on a portion of one kilometer in length, was driven on the back and forth. Taken was the average of both runs. This, according to Bentley, the rule as required by the Guinness Book of Records. The measuring section was located on a total of 16.5 km long route. 70 centimeters of ice separated Kankkunen the cold waters of the Baltic Sea. After five miles, he had 200 miles per hour - just under 322 km / h - been broken its previous record. Despite the snow storm and wind hazard since he made it to the test section 205.48 miles per hour, ie 330.695 km / h. The speed was confirmed by the Finnish Traffic Police. Prepared was the luxury convertible with a safety cage, winter tires and a brake chute at the rear. For more stability provided for front and rear spoiler.

Bentley Continental Sports: Speed record on ice in a convertible

Holiday on Ice, it was probably not what the Finnish four-World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen on the Baltic Sea experienced - rather exciting experience. In a Bentley Continental Super Sport convertible, he swept across the frozen sea off the coast of his homeland. He set a new speed record. At the Geneva Motor Show on 3 to 13 March 2011 presented to the manufacturer is a limited edition of the extreme-Bentley of 100 copies.
Over 330 km / h: police confirmed measurement
Measured the speed on a portion of one kilometer in length, was driven on the back and forth. Taken was the average of both runs. This, according to Bentley, the rule as required by the Guinness Book of Records. The measuring section was located on a total of 16.5 km long route. 70 centimeters of ice separated Kankkunen the cold waters of the Baltic Sea. After five miles, he had 200 miles per hour - just under 322 km / h - been broken its previous record. Despite the snow storm and wind hazard since he made it to the test section 205.48 miles per hour, ie 330.695 km / h. The speed was confirmed by the Finnish Traffic Police. Prepared was the luxury convertible with a safety cage, winter tires and a brake chute at the rear. For more stability provided for front and rear spoiler.

Bentley Continental Flying Star Wagon (Estate) Project Qatar motor show 2011

True to the Continental GTC chassis built and launched at the Geneva Motor Show last year, all Flying Stars are made to personal specifications and power outputs ranging from 552bhp to 621bhp feature, courtesy of 6.0-liter W12 engine from Bentley

The company has recently completed production of its third car and the model will make his first appearance at the Qatar Motor Show on 25 to 29 January meeting. Only 19 examples are currently planned for production.

Bentley Continental Flying Star Wagon (Estate) Project Qatar motor show 2011

True to the Continental GTC chassis built and launched at the Geneva Motor Show last year, all Flying Stars are made to personal specifications and power outputs ranging from 552bhp to 621bhp feature, courtesy of 6.0-liter W12 engine from Bentley

The company has recently completed production of its third car and the model will make his first appearance at the Qatar Motor Show on 25 to 29 January meeting. Only 19 examples are currently planned for production.

Bentley GT Speed Elegance Edition Chrome by Anderson photos and specs

Tuning studio Anderson Germany does not stop at nothing, even the Bentley GT will not leave without a special package, called GT Speed Elegance Edition.

Externally supercar is now different carbon-fiber hood with additional air intakes and new boot lid made of the same carbon. Moreover, carbon is also available on the front and rear bumpers, in addition to this there were lights with LEDs, chrome grille.

The interior, too, has undergone minor changes, which relate mainly to finish than functionality.

Serial Bentley GT leaves the factory with the W12, 610 HP capacity, but thanks to the work done specialists Anderson Germany, added the sports filter, new exhaust system, have revised fuel injection system and more capacity has reached 695 hp It is worth noting that the exhaust system now allows the driver to choose one of three ways of playing.

The cost of Bentley GT Speed Elegance Edition is not reported.

Bentley Continental Flying Spur Series 51 - car of the rich

The Continental Flying Spur is a great success worldwide since its 2005 launch in Europe, the Middle East, the USA than in Russia or Asia. Also attract a wider customer base and meet customer expectations, Bentley now offer (from March 2011) the Flying Spur and Flying Spur Speed avzec finishes the so-called "series 51" which allows customers to choose from a range of paintings (monotone or craft stick) but also almost custom leather upholstery and a few other comforts and luxuries.

Thus it is not less than 14 facilities that will offer this "series 51" which, in addition to upholstery, paint, selects its real wood or aluminum inserts solid satin, polished or corked.

So customers will take advantage of existing equipment since last year on the Continental GT and GTC. To return to the facilities of this Bentley Flying Spur "series 51", one also discovers new 19-inch alloy wheels, a new facility with a fi-infotainment screen 8 inch touchscreen and 30 GB of memory dedicated to storing half of the music and the other half to navigation.

Bentley will make a coupe with 4 doors

Bentley will launch four-door coupe, which the market will compete with cars like the Aston Martin Rapide, Maserati Quattroporte and Porsche Panamera.
Meanwhile, Bentley threaten their model has a lower price than competitors.


In an interview CEO of the company Bentley, Franz-Josef Paefgen says the new model will be made on plagformata of Audi A7 Sportback and the M8 will have a turbo engine with cylinder capacity of 4.0 liters and 450 hp power Will be automatic transmission with eight grades, will transfer to all four wheels.


The dimensions of the new Bentley coupe with four doors will be more compact than those of the Flying Spur sedans and Mulsanne. At the same time the car will offer luxury comparable to that of sedans.

Bentley Sport Cars Bentley Silver Wings Concept

The British carmaker Bentley, owned by Volkswagen Group had displayed a W16 powered super sports cars at the Geneva Motor show. The project was conceived as a virtual mid-engined successor to the 1999 Hunaudieres Concept. The front end of this vehicle features an aggressive front splitter and air intake set up to emulate the F22 Jet and is characterized by the trademark Bentley domed grill and twin circular headlights.

The Bentley Silver Wings Concept also features a raised beltline and diminishing character lines that help define the supercar embodiment of this concept and elongate the rear-end of this vehicle. This really is the Bentley of supercars...

Dubbed the Bentley Sport Cars Bentley Silver Wings Concept, the concept is inspired by the brand’s racing heritage as well as the F22 Raptor jet fighter. Bentley Silver Wings Concept is the usual hodgepodge of design elements from Aston Martin, Zonda, Saleen and Bentley of course, but it still has a certain charm about it.

Bentley Sport Cars Bentley Silver Wings Concept

The Silver Wing concept car uses a harmonious mix between mid-engine layout and aggressive design cues. The front end uses an aggressive layout built around Bentley’s characteristic domed grille and headlights that draw inspiration from the company’s current design language. The exterior also includes large rear air intakes for the rear brakes, and the 20" or 21" alloy wheels.

Shawn Wood and Guohua Cheng are two industrial designers recently graduated from the Industrial Design course at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (TAFA), China. They are two college kids from China have come up with something that will blow your mind completely. The W16 display car, which was a concept called the Hunaudières had a cab-forward design with sleek looks and was done up in British Racing Green. The concept cars had more chrome than Ludacris’ Escalade.

Bentley Sport Cars Bentley Silver Wings Concept

Bentley Silver Wings concept comes in pictures

The new design was inspired by an F22 jet and, as the name makes you understand, would be owned by Bentley.

The project is conceptual and has no engine or exchange or any other mechanical components defined. The lines of the Bentley Silver Wings, however, suggest sportiness and performance to give work to sports like Pagani Zonda, even if in case it was of interest to the Bentley, utilizes the 6.0 twin turbo W12 with 600 bhp and 76.5 lb.-ft. of torque of the Continental Flying Spur Arabia.

Paris 2010: 2011 Bentley Continental GT, live and in the flesh

Here is your first glimpse at the redesigned 2011 Bentley Continental GT as it makes its world debut at the Paris Motor Show. Earlier, we mentioned that it will receive a nearly four percent price hike over the previous model, which is nothing compared to the overall improvements the new car has received.

Like any car, it has good and bad angles (obviously, the exception to this rule is the Maserati GranTurisumo which looks beautiful from every angle...) – we'll hold off final judgment until we can see it outside in natural light, not surrounded by a mob of flash bulbs and clamoring journalists.

2011 Bentley Continental GT by Carface: Exclusive one-off

The production version already in the very luxury coupe is refined inside and out on. This gives the Continental GT a body kit made of carbon with a new front bumper, a front spoiler, grill use a piano black finish and side skirts. The modified rear bumper integrates the new exhaust system with two centrally positioned stainless steel tailpipes. Powerful 22-inch wheels replace the regular 20-inch model. The body of the Continental GT Heritage is coated with a matte sheen of paint in "Gun Metal Satin". Some attachments are designed in aluminum look.

The interior of the Bentley has been revised. The interior is complete with black nappa leather. The seats, dashboard and roof lining are also printed with silver pinstripes. Heritage lettering on the fenders and the rear of the instrument panel and complete the customization package for the Continental GT. For the shown on the auto show Carface conversion requires close to 100,000 €. There are also, of course, the cost for the Continental GT. Its starting price is € 179 928.

2011 Bentley Continental GT by Carface Photos

2011 Bentley Continental GT appeared in all its glory Paris 2010 Live

Bentley Continental GT coupe has sold in 22,000 copies., So when you update the engineers decided that the best is the enemy of the good and continued to stay the course, which brings a good profit.

It is therefore to distinguish the new Bentley Continental GT from its predecessor with a cursory glance not so easy.

Designers only slightly tweaked the exterior of the model. In particular, the novelty more elegant traced the front of a car, where there are slightly different bumper and front fenders, and the grid air now completely withdrawn coarse grid. Behind - a new bumper with lip, visually extending the tailgate, which, it should be noted, now looks very questionable (she lifted above the surface of the wings), as well as more elongated pipes exhaust. The most noticeable distinguishing detail is the new lighting at both the front and rear. Designers enlarge the domestic front (main) headlights, giving them similar to those of the current flagship Mulsanne. The rear lights, on the contrary, became smaller, but pay more attention to himself.

With regard to technical stuffing, then the model was 65 pounds lighter, and has repurposed dampers and recalibrated steering. Under the hood "basic" on the mighty 6-liter W12, which develops 575 hp and 700 Nm. After a 6-speed automatic transmission and four-wheel drive, he is able to disperse the model space before the first hundred for 4.4 seconds. Top speed is 318 km / h. Very intriguing will be changed with a new 4-liter 8-cylinder engine, which is officially promise to report next spring. According to the company, it will reduce fuel consumption in comparison with the flagship model of almost 40% with insignificant decrease in dynamic performance.

Sales of the new Bentley Continental GT will start in early 2011.

Online configurator for the new Bentley Continental GT

The Continental GT has only just been unveiled and already Bentley is giving potential owners the chance to customize their Continental GT. The online configurator is called the "Visualiser" and it allows you to see your Continental GT in one of 14 exterior colors, a range of wheel designs, and numerous interior choices. Not exactly the perfect configurator on the market, but at least everyone will be able to get an idea of what Bentley has to offer!

All you have to do is get online and start having some fun!

Refresher: The new Continental GT gets a more upright grille with new headlamp design, in traditional four-lamp format and LED daylight-running lamps, a bootlid inspired by the Bentley Mulsanne and flared elliptical exhaust tailpipes. Under the hood there is a 6.0 liter W12 powertrain that delivers a total of 567 HP and 700 NM of torque. The car sprints from 0 to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds and can hit a top speed of 198 mph.

[Source:Bentley]