Continental GT3?! Bentley’s Hardcore Coupé is About to Return with a Stonking Pure V8 | Autocar

Bentley will Immmentintly Unveil a New Continental SuperSports as a High-Ed, Rear-Driven Model with a Pure-Combustion v8 Packing more than 640bhp, Autocar Can Exclusively Reveal-And It SRVEL SIRL SIRL SIVEAL A showcase for a line of new “extrame” performance cars.

Spy photographers recently Captured the New Model Testing, with the Prototype’s Large Rear Spoiler and Bold Quad exhausts hinting at its performance edge. The test car otherWise sported Standard Bodywork, but Autocar sources have confirmed that the production version, set to be reveled late this year, will receive a far more dance Standard Continental Gt.

The sporting remit of the new model is shown by the intent to review 6.0-Litre w12 engine tuned to 700bhp.

The new Continental Sutorsports is Undrstood to Be Conceived to Showcase How, Uniquely Amn High-Ed Car Brands, Bentley has the heitage of offer both luxury-as decomtrated by the recent exopes 15 concepts And Performance. Bentley Boss Frank-STFEN Walliser has previously told autocar of plans for “more extrame” models that would reinforce the brand’s sporting heritage and credentials. It is beLieved the new SuperSports will be the first example of that, with other models tipped to follow.

The retirement of bentley’s w12 engine in favor of a Twin-Turbo v8 means the new supersports won’t as much as much power as it will predecessor. It will also be less potent than the top-specs continental gt speed, which produces 771bhp from a plug-in hybrid paurtrain. However, it’s undersrstood that extreme lightweighting measures Mean the non-electrified superpulses will be removed

The SuperSports is set to retain the 4.0-litre twenturbo v8 from the gt speed, but our sources claim the unit has been reconfigured and output booosted from 592bhp to around 188bhp Gearbox-Mounted Electric Motor has been ditched. Whereas the gt speed is all-wheel drive, the supersports will be purely rear-driven.