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CHRYSLER JEEP Bentley Continental (2026) - Awesome Luxury Sport Coupe!
What is it?
The world’s best grand tourer. Now more dynamic than ever before. We’ve heard this a lot over the years. Ever since Bentley first gave lux-hungry buyers a Continental GT back in 2004, and a couple of years later the convertible GTC variant, it’s been making it more sporting. The comfort stuff it has always done brilliantly, but the original, with its enormous 6.0-litre twin turbo W12 mounted atop the front wheels, was a nose-heavy motor.
Over the years it was sharpened, but there’s only so much you can do with a burly two-tonne 4WD coupe. The all new car that came along in 2018 had a more rakish profile and the handling to match, but despite Bentley’s best efforts was still a bit blunt and heavy when pushed.
What’s happened now?
The W12 has gone and batteries have arrived.
And this has made things better has it?
There’s a lot to unpack here, but overall yes. Let’s start with the bad stuff though. The most handling-focused version of the previous Conti GT was the 650bhp W12 Speed. It arrived in 2021 with the ability to send more power to the rear wheels for full-on smoky drifts. It still weighed 2,273kg. This new one is almost 200kg heavier.
Because batteries. It’s now a plug-in hybrid, the W12 replaced in the nose by a lighter twin turbo V8, while the batteries are in the rear to balance out the weight distribution seesaw. Which is now 49:51. That’s right, there’s more weight over the rear wheels than there is over the fronts.
Actually, we say V8 has replaced W12, but a V8 has long been available as the ‘entry-level’ Conti GT. This is no entry-level model. In fact it’s the most powerful Bentley road car there’s ever been, with 584bhp from the internal combustion augmented by a 187bhp e-motor sitting between engine (actually an all new V8) and eight-speed twin clutch gearbox. So 771bhp in total, and a torque peak at a nice round 1,000Nm, which is 738lb ft in our money. And even with that having to push against 2,459kg, this car can hit 62mph from a standing start in 3.2 seconds. Or 3.4s for the convertible GTC, all 2,636kg of it.
Ah, it’s essentially a rocket-powered throne then?
That’s one way of putting it. Another would be to point out that this is a very, very sophisticated car now. Underneath it has four-wheel steering, twin chamber dampers (new for this generation), active anti-roll, an electronic diff and torque vectoring. These chassis upgrades are where the money has been spent.
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What is it?
The world’s best grand tourer. Now more dynamic than ever before. We’ve heard this a lot over the years. Ever since Bentley first gave lux-hungry buyers a Continental GT back in 2004, and a couple of years later the convertible GTC variant, it’s been making it more sporting. The comfort stuff it has always done brilliantly, but the original, with its enormous 6.0-litre twin turbo W12 mounted atop the front wheels, was a nose-heavy motor.
Over the years it was sharpened, but there’s only so much you can do with a burly two-tonne 4WD coupe. The all new car that came along in 2018 had a more rakish profile and the handling to match, but despite Bentley’s best efforts was still a bit blunt and heavy when pushed.
What’s happened now?
The W12 has gone and batteries have arrived.
And this has made things better has it?
There’s a lot to unpack here, but overall yes. Let’s start with the bad stuff though. The most handling-focused version of the previous Conti GT was the 650bhp W12 Speed. It arrived in 2021 with the ability to send more power to the rear wheels for full-on smoky drifts. It still weighed 2,273kg. This new one is almost 200kg heavier.
Because batteries. It’s now a plug-in hybrid, the W12 replaced in the nose by a lighter twin turbo V8, while the batteries are in the rear to balance out the weight distribution seesaw. Which is now 49:51. That’s right, there’s more weight over the rear wheels than there is over the fronts.
Actually, we say V8 has replaced W12, but a V8 has long been available as the ‘entry-level’ Conti GT. This is no entry-level model. In fact it’s the most powerful Bentley road car there’s ever been, with 584bhp from the internal combustion augmented by a 187bhp e-motor sitting between engine (actually an all new V8) and eight-speed twin clutch gearbox. So 771bhp in total, and a torque peak at a nice round 1,000Nm, which is 738lb ft in our money. And even with that having to push against 2,459kg, this car can hit 62mph from a standing start in 3.2 seconds. Or 3.4s for the convertible GTC, all 2,636kg of it.
Ah, it’s essentially a rocket-powered throne then?
That’s one way of putting it. Another would be to point out that this is a very, very sophisticated car now. Underneath it has four-wheel steering, twin chamber dampers (new for this generation), active anti-roll, an electronic diff and torque vectoring. These chassis upgrades are where the money has been spent.
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