The 21 years that Bentley has been under the stewardship of Volkswagen AG has seen the British company construct some of the world’s most sought-after, sumptuously fitted, overpowered grand touring machines - emphasis on grand.
The 2020 Bentley Continental GT, in coupe and convertible variants, is more of the same. The third-generation iteration of the company’s most successful product - 70,000 sold since it made its initial debut in 2003 - was all-new last year, at least in hardtop form and powered by Bentley’s signature 6.0-litre W12 engine. Its droptop sibling now joins it, and both have a new addition in the powerplant department - a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 mated with a new eight-speed double-clutch transmission. (Just to keep the record straight, the convertible will be available later this year with the W12.)
And lest anyone thinks 542 horsepower and 568 pound-feet is somehow deficient, at least when compared with the 12-cylinder’s thundering 626 horsepower, allow me to purge that notion. The V8 hardtop GT will move its 2,165-kilogram mass from rest to 100 km/h in just four seconds; the convertible is but a tenth slower despite another 170 kilograms of road-hugging weight.
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