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The Bentley Continental GT is a grand touring car manufactured and marketed by the British company Bentley Motors since 2003. A two-door coupé or convertible, and has four seats, it was the first new Bentley released after the company's acquisition by Volkswagen AG in 1998, and the first Bentley to employ mass production manufacturing techniques.
Bentley Continental refers to several models of cars produced by Bentley Motors. Originally, it referred to a special chassis for engines more powerful than the usual offering, supplied to a selected number of coachbuilders for the fitting of very light-weight coachwork designed under Rolls-Royce supervision.
After July 1954, the model was fitted with an engine with a larger bore of 94.62 mm (3.7 in), giving a total displacement of 4.9 L (4887 cc/298 in³). [citation needed] The rarity of the R Type Continental has made the car valuable to car collectors. In 2015 a 1952 R Type Continental, in unrestored condition, sold for over $1 million USD. [13]
Launched in 1996, the Bentley Continental T was a short wheelbase version of the Continental R offering more power, torque and responsive handling, at the expense of rear passenger leg room. At its launch, the Bentley Continental T offered an additional 15 hp (11 kW; 15 PS) over the 1996 Continental R, at 400 hp, and an additional 54 N⋅m (40 ...
This Volkswagen Group engine is also used with slight modification, and with the addition of two turbochargers in the, Bentley Continental Flying Spur. It has also been used in a 600 hp (450 kW; 610 PS) form aboard the Volkswagen W12 prototype sports car to establish a 24-hour record of 323 km/h (200.7 mph) in 2002 at the Nardò Ring in Italy .
Volkswagen's 6.0 WR12 48v engine Bentley's 6.0 twin-turbocharged W12 engine. The only mass-production W12 engine is the Volkswagen 6.0 WR12 48v, a four-bank design that was first released in 2001. The engine is constructed by mating two narrow-angle 15° VR6 engines at an inclined angle of 72°. The narrow angle of each set of cylinders allows ...
The company confirmed that just a handful of build slots remain before the company's 12-cylinder power plant is discontinued for good.
The 6 + 3 ⁄ 4 litres (412 cu in) 512 PS (377 kW; 505 bhp) engine used in Bentley Mulsanne was built at Crewe plant, and took nearly 30 hours to build. [5] [6] The twin-turbo V8 engine was cast at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England and fully machined and partially assembled at the company's machining facility in Telford, Shropshire, England. [7]