LAST AUTO NEWS – HYBRID CONTINENTAL ON THE WAY?
Last Auto account – Amalgam Continental on the way? Spy Shots acknowledge a bulk of new mechanicals on show, with electric motors alive in bike with petrol engine
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It’s all go at Bentley. Not alone is it advancing the new flagship Arnage, the affluence car behemothic is aswell alive on a hybrid.
These amazing spy shots acknowledge the Crewe close is testing a Continental ancestor with a petrol-electric drivetrain. Look carefully at our absolute pictures, and you’ll see the rear of the car is abounding with a new assemblage featuring battery-powered motors. Also, a retractable addle-brain is arresting at the top of the bootlid.
The powerplant is a adaptation of the amalgam in the Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne SUVs. That mates a 3.6-litre petrol V6, giving 280bhp and 375Nm, to a 284Nm electric motor. In the Bentley, it would be added able – apprehend the electronics to addition a new V8 or beyond assemblage to about 500bhp. As able-bodied as stronger pace, this would accord bigger abridgement than the Continental’s agog W12.
Bentley is acceptable to install the drivetrain beyond the range, including in the new Arnage. It will advice cut ammunition burning and CO2 achievement in beforehand of new EU targets, which seek to force makers to abate boilerplate emissions by 2015.
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