RE: 2024 Bentley Continental GT Speed | PH Review

[el romeral]

Looks splendid and glorious, especially on the inside. Bit too much black trim going on, on the outside - including the wheels. What I do like though, is the non tinted rear side windows - other manufacturers take note.

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Lottery win = nice house in rural France and a Conti GT to get there in. Stunning looking things...

[CG2020UK]

Stunning car!

[chrisironside]

BigChiefmuffinAgain said:

Not sure why, but I found it really hard to read that article.

First time reading Nic Cackett?

[KGP04]

Driven a lot of these over the past couple of years in various states of prototype-ness, and I can honestly say its an amazing bit of kit. The EV only mode makes absolute sense for the car to have if, lets face it, a lot of these are going to spend time in the city.

The performance at full attack is amazing and despite what you might think about the weight, to actually drive, you wouldn't guess its as heavy as it is. Either through straight line acceleration or cornering.

This would be a euromillions win next day buy with no hesitation. Just not in boring grey.

[Julian Scott]

marcom44 said:

Add a battery make it green............pointless really for the type of person that can afford it but sadly that's what is being dictated by the clever people in charge of this great revolution.

Why would improving 'green-ness', i.e., environmental impact, be less of a point for the more affluent? Are wealthy not allowed to be concerned with environmentally beneficial measures?

Cost, maybe something the wealthy care less about, although from experience (not personal!) that isn't true, many of the more wealthy are at in part wealthy *because* they don't waste money, and the sales of ratio of Diesel Vs Petrol Bentaygas when you compare the UK and US suggests likewise that the Bentley customer will still be tested by a more frugal option, but choosing a greener product is at least as relevant for the Bentley owners as anyone else I would have thought?


Back on the car, looks lovely. I remember getting taken out in a prototype of the very first CGT W12. Beast of a car. Each iteration has gradually improved on that formula.

[Julian Scott]

Gruntled said:

Brake system manufacturers and tire makers must love this shift to EVs. The loads this car must have carried while driving down mountain passes… 2,500kg is not peanuts.

A friend who did a car rally with his SLS over the Alps called the Bentley “the hindenburg”, on account of its glowing brake pads.

Regen braking would likely reduce brake use and the glow of a brake disc (or brake pad.....do they glow?)

[theicemario]

Why somebody would want their £250k Bentley in grey on black wheels like the average leased A3 or Golf is beyond me. Way too much black trim on the exterior as well.

[MadCaptainJack]

From its launch thru 2018, the Continental GT was a great-looking car, with real character - big, muscular, no-nonsense. The only reason I didn't buy one was because I didn't fancy owning a car where anything more complicated that refilling the windscreen washer fluid is an "engine out" job.

The 2018 redesign removed any appeal for me. It just looks like a blingmobile.

[PistonTim]

BigChiefmuffinAgain said:

Not sure why, but I found it really hard to read that article.

It's verbose word soup. Horrible.

[CountyAFC]

PistonTim said:

BigChiefmuffinAgain said:

Not sure why, but I found it really hard to read that article.

It's verbose word soup. Horrible.

Could and should have been 3 paragraphs shorter. He does it deliberately to provoke comment.

[Kino8877]

I've genuinely never thought of this for a plug in hybrid but as a sports GT where you tend to do a fair few miles, do you need to refuel it twice per stop? Once for unleaded and again to charge the battery? For most normal plug in hybrids I assume they just charge at home daily for 99% trips which works. These not so much especially as the motor is for peak performance and not just efficiency.

[Julian Scott]

Kino8877 said:

I've genuinely never thought of this for a plug in hybrid but as a sports GT where you tend to do a fair few miles, do you need to refuel it twice per stop? Once for unleaded and again to charge the battery? For most normal plug in hybrids I assume they just charge at home daily for 99% trips which works. These not so much especially as the motor is for peak performance and not just efficiency.

I suspect you have a fairly whimsical idea of what most people buy a Bentley Continental GT Speed for. I doubt the majority actually do multiple Grand Touring days in excess of what their 90l fuel tanks will propel them for (c350 miles+)

[franki68]

Fantastic cars ,I haven’t been in a Rolls but the Bentley interiors are just superb and feel a cut above the astons and Ferraris in my experience .

[E90_M3Ross]

BigChiefmuffinAgain said:

Not sure why, but I found it really hard to read that article.

Because it was written by Nic Cackett. Every article he writes (and I really do mean every article) has numerous people complaining about it. They have a fair point, yet it never gets addressed.

[Glenn63]

Great looking thing (not in grey)
, interior is easily the best of any car on sale.

[ManyMotors]

A worthy update though of questionable value. VW needs something that will sell.

[NGK210]

be02ese said:

Nicolas Lazar said:

So, how does that work? At 75% gas pedal travel the cold V8 comes on and instantly goes to 4.000 rpm? That does sound neither healthy, nor smooth. Are coolant and lubricant pre-heated and pre-pressurized? Are the bearings pre-heated? No, thank you.

After all the effort and money to develop this car, yeah i reckon those 'idiots' at Bentley wouldn't have thought about any of that. What a ret**ded statement!!

For us mere mortals, it’s a logical and fair query.

Instead of snarking, please enlighten.

The McLaren Arthur, for example, when in EV-mode has the ICE running at tickover to warm its fluids.

If in doubt, see Iain Tyrrell’s vid re. start-up techniques, which in effect clarifies @Nicolas Lazar‘s comment:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WY30e-oC2T0

[Water Fairy]

Proportionally or proportionately?

I mean, seriously I don't know but it stood out to me.

Love the colour scheme btw

[NGK210]

Good news!

Someone has started a GoFundMe accnt to hire an assassin to despatch 1) the person who designed the new Conti GT’s headlights and 2) the person who signed-off said design.

EDIT: GoFundMe accnt suspended, and all monies returned, because overwhelming number offered their services gratis.

Edited by NGK210 on Tuesday 1st October 16:59