BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GTC REVEALED – BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GTC REVEALED
Bentley Continental GTC appear – Bentley Continental GTC appear Continental drop-top gets accelerated folding roof and will admission at the Frankfurt appearance next month
The lid has been aerial on the all-new Bentley Continental GTC, to acknowledge a affluence drop-top that’s roomier, bigger able and faster than anytime before. And if the firm’s hotly advancing 4.0-litre V8 engine is added to the options account aboriginal next year, it will become the a lot of fuel-efficient Bentley cabrio, too.
“We accept bigger about aggregate about the car,” arch artist Dirk van Braeckel told Auto Express. The new GTC takes administration cues from its GT sibling, which was apparent endure year. Changes cover a added muscular, sculpted contour and a arresting new ablaze design, while a revised folding bolt roof opens in 25 abnormal at speeds of up to 20mph.
A 48mm added clue has created 36mm added legroom in the back, but the car’s 235-litre cossack accommodation stays the same, with a added aperture alms hardly bigger access.
Inside, designers accept focused on convalescent the GTC’s infotainment system, which includes an eight-inch touchscreen, sat-nav with Google Maps and a new agenda complete system. The cabrio’s costly covering seats are abbreviate yet sporty, and appear with an another beating action and air-ventilation system.
Classy Bentley touches cover an all-new ash birr trim, with a analogous veneered glasses case. “What looks like copse is wood,” van Braeckel revealed. The autogenous aswell appearance metal finishes, as able-bodied as Mulsanne-style soft-touch covering trim to alter ahead harder surfaces.
A tweaked adaptation of the GTC, primarily advised for consign to China, will action UK buyers added customisation options – including air vents in the rear and even a absolutely deadened engine.
Bentley’s powertrain anatomy director, Brian Gush, told us that the firm’s abundantly chauffeur-driven barter in China “want blackout in the back”, but added: “They may change their minds if they alpha adequate active themselves.”
However, the GTC’s better change comes next spring, if the engine agency is abutting by a 4.0-litre V8 powerplant that will aswell affection in the firm’s all-new SUV. In an attack to allure buyers who wish lower emissions and bigger economy, the assemblage promises an absorbing 40 per cent abridgement in ammunition consumption.
“It still drives like a Bentley, but has its own character,” Gush said. The V8 will be an another to the firm’s flagship 12-cylinder 6.0-litre twin-turbo, which delivers 567bhp and a torque achievement of 700Nm.
Both units will be offered with a new QuickShfit transmission, which Bentley claims will cut gearchange times in half.
Prices are set to be appear at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, area the car will accomplish its accessible debut. Deliveries are accepted to activate after this year.
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