Bentley Continental GT full review 6.0litre W12, 626bhp

Well, welcome to Harry's new garage and today's car is the Bentley Continental GTC behind me, introduced this year 2018 to replace the original model that came out. I can't believe it was so long ago, but 2003, that's 15 years in production, the original amount. Is that double the life cycle or a normal model? Just shows how successful the model was for Bentley. I mean, in the end they apparently sold around 65,000 Continental GTs of the first version, so it's a really crucial model for Bentley and, to put that into perspective, that's roughly for every Aston db9, so four Continental GTs were sold , why was it so successful and what did they do to this new car?

They say it's very new compared to theirs. It's not just an update, let's take a closer look. The first thing to look at is the design. They have had an exhaustive rethinking of continuity along the same lines. He still has those powerful rib ghosts, but the nose is different. It has a wider grill at the bottom. Those headlights are just works of art. They are like a diamond pattern. We look at them. LED lights are standard on this car and this wide chrome grille and deep intake underneath surprises us that it's all that chrome around the grille and in the rear, so they're actually plastic.

They don't look very fancy like the real grills under the main grille around a license plate, but it features this car. I think they have done an excellent job and the sharpness of the lines is simply extraordinary. I know VW is very proud. I lowered the windows from that because I love pillarless ace coupes like this and I think it just shows off the line of the car beauti

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y. This is an optional color, this ruby ​​red. I think it highlights it very well, but simply. look at that line on that rear horse, that's how that crease line is just sharp, very nice metal work, this car is all annum innum besides I think that boot is one, I don't want to call it classy, ​​no It can't be called in another way, but it's not aluminum, but yes, it's a very good redesign, everyone sees it and says: "Oh, it's a flashy car, it has a little touch of Audi a7, but I'll forgive that because it has presence and it's ".

A dramatically better style than the original Contra Duty, it had a slightly stained nature around the back. I always thought that not this one, these very stylized lights, they have lowered the source of the rear window, it has a false rear window that goes into the trunk. great look and that very distinctive brake light right along the rear window overall on the design absolutely excellent work looks like a million bucks ok let's take a look inside now i will give you a

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tour which will be here when you actually go to drive it, but it's something I just want to show you now that you can do this trade correctly in big, bold red letters.

Sometimes when I open the door, it's blue. I'm not really sure what's going on with that, but this. It's a 2+2 so I'm interested, can I sit behind me? So that's my driving position. I'm going to sit in the back, of course, everything is motorized. I put the engines forward, lowered the seat. Forward engines. Oh, touch money. and it's just yeah, there you have it, so actually everyone just touch your knees and move forward about an inch. I'm 6:162, I'm a little comfortable here, but I fit into this, just feel it a little when you touch it. It's not bad, it's actually better, much better than the previous amount.

They've lengthened the wheelbase on this car and it's a tidy county. It has given it a little more interior space. Let's take a look at the business center. in the engine and there we go this w12 engine that fortunately comes into its own in this configuration this new specification and it has really changed it was looked at from afar in orders and stops and there are all kinds of things it produces six liters it says it produces 626 horsepower and ​​900 Newton meters of torque, which is 664 for two huge power units. What's pretty cool is that this is actually part of an ox.

Pat has a real metal oil filler. When I look over here, I can't see a dipstick. I don't think he owns a dipstick. I think it's all electronic and what the engineers managed to do they somehow managed to put this package 150k further back in the chassis with leather for handling, obviously, and they also have this, this. very distinctive bracket this cast aluminum bracket here between the front struts a lot of work here I can see the owner would basically never look down here the only thing he has is a wash bottle up there and that's it so that's all I know ve of the engine now let's take a look at the bat it's a pretty misleading feature on the back okay I like the way the screen ends there but the boot starts from there but they made this a black panel just to cheat your EIN.

I think it's a larger screen, this panel here is a rear spoiler that deploys automatically at about 75 miles. Now you can't control it manually underneath as well, but there is a trick feature if I just do this, the trunk appears, it has gesture control. to open the trunk and I love the way the real light goes into the trunk like that reasonably sized boot, oh just a patch underneath and yes some foam to fill it, no way to close the part, my captive button, no, there you have it. Does that give you a little idea about the Bentley?

Let's take him outside. We take you for a ride. Wow, yeah, there's a great place here. A truly impressive interior. First of all, the car very conveniently hands you a seat belt and then you are introduced to it. This is all an illuminated LCD readout on the typical screen that you see there these days and to start it a central button to start it and that's where the cinema begins. The first thing that appears is the rotating navigation screen, this central screen if you just turn the radio down a little bit, here we go. I love so many features to explain to you here, but the design of the water is a smaller wheel, this, this, this car.

I have the options package here, which I'm going to read out loud. because there are many things in the list of recommendations for this car for this car in the program. 159 thousand one hundred pounds in the UK, the total option costs for this car are 43085 pounds, making a grand total of two hundred two thousand one hundred and eighty-five pounds. now you don't have to spend as much, that's typical of press cars, they load them up so we can show you the options that are available on the car like this and the keys on this one. I extended the paint range because this is it.

Ruby Nova red is the color of this car that weighs four thousand five hundred pounds, but on that drive-spec reciprocating wheel that weighs eight thousand ninety-five pounds, what the heck does that add, so that sum must add a lot more than the driver's specifications. 21 inch wheels padded on two seats with this beautiful diamond pattern and then kind of little stitches around over 700 stitches on each diamond apparently given by the press according to the seat door boxes and rear quarters Darwin and in diamond in diamond embroidery on the headliner of the indented lever Sorry I'm losing my space sport pedals as the metal pedals fill the fuel cap with fuel and that metal oil cap we saw earlier of the touring specification.

Here is the lane assist, adaptive cruise control, night vision, yes this night vision, just turn the dashboard and you can see. It's night time and anything that's alive I saw birds coming out of the hedges on the way to Goodwood yesterday, things like that head-up display, adjustable front seats, comfort specs, adjustable side bolsters and in the ventilation massage etc. , the city specifications are another city. spec I don't have that on my car so it's not that bad actually well 3960 no it's not the abs it's a lot of money so I apologize ignore that ambient lighting spec. 1490 pass, go anyway, city specs, awesome cameras We'll show you in a minute a traffic reversing pedestrian warning and mirroring, all that kind of stuff, yeah, crazy amount of options you can have for all these cars, but what it presents to you is just something extraordinary, now the screen in front of I have the two dials at the moment.

I could change it. I can take a trip like that. I don't have anything configured in navigation. Otherwise you could have everything as a map, but this screen rotates. I am one of the What bothers me with the current car interior design is that they always have a central screen and it dominates everything, not like that in the Bentley. If this is an action, I will receive my waybill again. Bentley rotating screen an additional four thousand seven hundred pounds. one and I press the ruler, it will do that and suddenly three conventional dials will appear with a compass in the middle, a little confusing because the needle never moves and then the compass moves, so I can see backwards than a normal compass.

It's 22 degrees out there, there's a temperature gauge and a stopwatch. We haven't figured out how to turn it on yet, but everything was great and then when you park one afternoon, I can't. I made another one. another well when I park I'll stop it now the whole thing folds up and does that wonderful rotation and then online it just ends and like it doesn't have a screen there you go I mean the countess button is beautifully done. A little confusing when you first walk in, but the general impression is that I'm not being as good of an inner light as this and I suppose that's why you pay almost two hundred thousand pounds for this job.

Okay, now the last thing I want to show you. This screen is when you select reverse, you pull up the cameras and then you get this aerial view which I find particularly useful, but what has really impressed me about this car is how quickly it will shift, so I go forward. I have a front camera there. I can see around me. I have a Villard there. I have little Terriers that love to run around the car. I can see them in this. It's very smart and I like the way it keeps the front camera open. I reverse and instantly change the camera, there is no pause or anything, it is real time, as fast as I change that lever, as fast as the cameras change, not all cars are like that, but this one is very impressive, you will probably scream .

I mean, but my golf does the same thing, but all I can say is an awesome system. Anyway, the important thing about all these cars is how they drive, so let's go to some of our favorite roads and you'll meet me when we go for a test drive. a little more dynamics than these cars feel good in comfort mode, the air springs also changed, it is more relaxed than the damping and it is a very good ride, although you imagine this type of car being there, there is always that hint of it. The boost from that engine can always keep the revs low, generally rarely exceeding 2000 rpm.

I should also say it's an 8 speed dual clutch transmission, it's not G of conventional talk, it's on the verge of the previous 20 GT, still is. NF unit, but its dual clutch transmission and they have done it because it is 900 Newton meters and at the moment there is no real talk of giving us a tool to deal with that amount of tools, its clutch transmission. Can I have a little criticism? it's not very good at floating and that stop in town gets stuck between first or second gear and here to steal a little bit of movement that is common to all Gil Plus transmissions, that's where a torque converter is king, but then , if you want dynamic driving and instant gear change, that's where you should opt for the double clutch.

Be something about to be discovered, rather than taken out of the shiny Bentley. I'll change it for a sporty one. The other fun thing was the sports as soon as I touched the paddle on the steering wheel I'm in manual mode and it's a low gear which is one of my problems with gaining but second gear is a very useful gear it really helps the acceleration, helps this car go from 3.1 to 60, these are those gear changes that go like this. It's a breakthrough. I saw that this car has been featured by some magazines. They gave him 28.1 to a hundred.

This car weighs two point two tons, maybe a little more. 8.1.200 supercars. The other little thing it has up its sleeve compared to the previous generation. The active roll control that was introduced in the previous generation of Tiger ET coated had normal stabilizer bars, it has a 48 volt system and active rolls, it really controls the road, it went up this type of mode, the disadvantage of roll stabilizer bars super stiff Is it the Hannity Glee effect in the suspension? This could mean that the suspension could act normally and be easily compromised by rigid materials. So, Steve's car, what is this car?

Is it a luxury car? Is it a racing car? I think everything has changed since the car was created? introduced, who would have thought we would see a Bentley in gt3 level racing, but there is a new Continental GT racing car that was in the previous version. There is one ofthis one, I never thought I'd see it, so this car has to play like this. role that played any role that has a kind of scar, I think that's why I always sold so well in the past because you could do the luxury and we could do the dynamics, you could buy with their performance and this one certainly shoots this, this doesn't should with this weight, behave like this through these containers.

The 2.2 ton car does not resist understeer. I have a lot of steering like some cars in the team in this class have and zero votes really work on that suspension. I have it in sports with stiffer springs. but it handled that compression very well those brakes are working very hard they are made of 20 mil steel dis front discs they are the largest brakes installed on some fuzzy and stubborn tin calipers with a number of tips that is a noisy caliper with six pistons in the rear even yeah well what do we do with this car? Well, when it arrived, I was ready to write it off.

I thought I was overweight. The W12 engine I never particularly liked the previous version of the W12 V8 Continental engine which proved its dynamic capabilities to be better than the W12, so I'm ready to dismiss this after having lived with it. Is different. Here's the story, I'm pretty sure the Conti GT of choice, the engine somehow by doing the firing order by deactivating two cylinders, the old crazy fuel consumption went away, we used to struggle to make it in 2021 , even before I even cruised down to Goodwood on this one. car yesterday 28.1 mpg on the way down I thought it was ridiculous on the way back I pushed a little harder and got home and Rishabh saw 28.5 well that means this is a 400+ bar range for the 90 tank meters, which is a big change from the previous version. dynamically moving that engine to the rear and then this would split the power, the factory rear then goes to the front has given it a new character those sway bars there is a dynamic class to this car that wasn't there in the previous version so yeah , I really like it, there are only other disadvantages.

A little more road noise. I would like to, but that seems to be typical of this class. The size of the tar was coming. It is very well isolated. I thought in this class I want the DB 11. I like the growl of the DB 11 should always be the Christmas w12. It has a husky voice, it doesn't sound like a 12-cylinder, but it offers all the amplitude and compared to the DB 11, the big change is how it actually makes you feel when you enter its compromised interior of the DB 11. this is not compromised in any way This is a world class interior.

In fact, I've said it probably leads the world over other cars that are considered in this class and the Rolls-Royce Rafe maybe or the Ferrari not, so they're just right there with more Rolls money. Royce Wraith I like that if you want rear space it has it, so that's important to you, you'll probably choose that car, but it's more expensive by 50 to 60 thousandths, but it's quite Ferrari FF, a very special car with more space, but This costs 159,000 for the war. offers this is a supercar with a world-class interior and luxury. I think they absolutely have it.

Maybe this sector is not the most popular now, but this is the ultimate Sport GT Cruiser and it has extra dynamics, so do the best job, excellent job. So I hope you enjoyed the video. If you keep watching, keep subscribing. You will not be able to receive more videos very soon.