Bentley Exp10 Speed 6 Car Auto Review
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Bentley treated press at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show to a sneak preview of its new EXP 10 Speed 6 concept, a two-seater sports car that debuts a new model to sit below the Continental. The EXP 10 Speed 6 has some trademark Bentley design cues at the front, with large circular headlamps and a trapezoidal grille, although these seem to have a new, unique flare to them. Flowing from the front to the rear are sleek and prominent body lines, and from a side profile, we can’t help but compare its sloping roof to that of an Aston Martin Vantage.
Step inside through its rather stylised swan doors and, as you would expect from Bentley designers there is a luxurious cabin ambience, with leather splashed about the place and plenty of metallic highlights. There are even copper inserts in the doors! So, for the minute, this is just a concept, but Bentley has hinted if the Speed six does make it into production, it would consider throwing a performance hybrid powertrain under the bonnet – which I’m sure we can all agree would be rather interesting. Does this signify a new foray into yet another market segment? Well, there is already a Bentley SUV on the way, so why not a two-seat sports car, as well.
as Americans we tend to think of the British as somehow more refined than we are almost everyone in Britain is a character from Downton Abbey refined elegant rich wrong britain's national pastime is going down to the pub having 15 pints getting the right pissed and having a good route which is a sophisticated sounding way of saying going to bar getting drunk and beating the out of a lot of people their no better than us their savages savages with the veneer of class and sophistication and if there ever was a car to demonstrate that would be the Bentley Continental gt3 R it is the most bonkers bentley ever this is what a rich person's British hot rod looks like it is a continental so a rather large two door coupe.
It has green stickers to accentuate the sweeping character lines down its bulging planks of carbon front splitter to clip off wayward peasants just above their ankles and a carbon rear wing that wouldn't be out of place on well let's just say it's completely and totally out of place on a Bentley black 21 inch wheels hiding 8 piston brake calipers and 16 and a half inch rotors up front these are not break the size of dinner plates they wouldn't even fit in your kitchen cabinets your kitchen staff would have to store them in the pantry with serving trays like the outside the cabin of the gt3 R is filled with green stripes just to confuse your valet and then there's the bentley wood the interior of every Bentley starts out with something like four hundred dollars worth of veneers that are polished cut and fit and made beautiful and perfect and wood is one of the things that bentley does better than any other car company that's why the gt3 R has absolutely not a single piece of it in its place is carbon fiber trim that fills the cabin with squeaks and rattles and likes of which you haven't heard since daewoo stop selling cars in America and there's no back seat because you never look elegant getting out of the back seat of a coupe even.
If it is the size of a house for it sportiest continental the best thing bentley can do is ditch the heavy the heavy 6 liter w12 and slapping a much ligter engine audi four liter quad cam twin turbo V8 from the rs7 should do the trick in the gt3 R it makes five hundred and ninety-two horsepower and 553 pound feet of torque that's a skosh less of the highest output version of the 12 cylinder but the V8 weighs seventy pounds less Bentley says the gt3 R is the fastest accelerating Bentley ever it's certainly the quickest we've ever tested it rips off 0 to 60 in a stupid 3.3 seconds without even trace of wheel spin confession time about this engine's rating it's not actually rated at 592 horsepower because it can only sustain that for 15 seconds over boost after that sad trombones come out and it drops to 572 but when you have this much power it's not really that much of an issue because at fifteen seconds of throttle from a dead stop this 4919 pound car is doing 135 miles an hour I think that's fast enough this thing is so nuts I haven't laughed this hard and a Bentley since the first time I saw it.
GTC Speed sticker prices but unlike that car this feels like a bargain 341,000 and 25 bucks 70 bucks a pound I don't think you can buy a really good tea for that these days when was the last time you heard a bentley that sounded like this because they don't none has ever felt like this this drives unlike any Bentley I've never been in before it just flings itself into corners throws itself just a little bit sideways and then carry so much speed on the way out this is so stupid I want to be the guy who did this exhaust tuning because clearly he's nuts or maybe he just hates his neighbors either way if he drives this neighbors hate him now it's nuts loud and the best part is every time you lift off the gas it does these rediculous backfires and a rightful going on over and over again honestly this is the shock of the automotive special edition.
