Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Bentley, First Drives, Luxury
Loses its Head, Keeps its Bespoke Cool
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This is the 10th anniversary of the Bentley Continental GT, the 5,500-pound shim that pried open the market for bespoke luxury at $150K. We’re into the second generation of the supercoupe that is still - and we think unfairly - derided as a grossly exaggerated Volkswagen, which to us is like saying the Hulk is just Bruce Banner in a tizzy. There are credible grounds for both statements, but in neither case do they accurately convey the chasm between the alpha and the omega.
Nevertheless, checking off the list of updated models brings us to the Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible, the moderately augmented version of the non-Speed GTC. Back to the notion of unfairness, it’s probably just that to say the GT Speed Convertible is only “moderately” changed. It did, after all, take Bentley three years to engineer the changes that separate your ‘basic’ Bentley from the Speed variant, and although they might be imperceptible, they are numerous.
We were invited to drive the world’s latest and fastest four-seater convertible for two days from Las Vegas to San Francisco. In a twist we never would have expected, it turned into a desperate hunt for thrills.Continue reading 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible
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