The third Conti GT is one of the best Bentleys ever - here's what to look out for secondhand
Note for reference: car weight and power data are hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it's wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive.Buy a new V8 GT and the engine will be sent over from Germany to Crewe for assembly.
It says something about modern engineering that even with such staggering performance available the fuel consumption is not equally staggering. The official combined figure is 23.2mpg and you can add 3-4mpg to that when you're kicking back. Obviously it's no econobox, and that 23mpg will quickly change into a more attention-grabbing sort of number if you're flogging it everywhere, but respect is surely due for the efficient mix of aerodynamics and engineering concocted here.
With this amount of weight and performance to rein in you needed a bazzing set of brakes, and the Continental had them. Its 420mm front discs were the biggest iron discs ever seen on a production car, and the 380s on the back would probably have stopped a runaway artic on their own. On the 2021 GT Speed Coupe and Convertible the fronts went up to 440mm.The gen-three restyle pulled off the trick of being subtle and striking at the same time, the mark of a good refresh.
The leathers were predictably exquisite, and the slightly wobbly stitching added to rather than detracted from the feeling of artisanal love that wafted over you like a whiff of Creed when you climbed aboard.
A thunderously powerful and spookily accurate Naim for Bentley stereo was also available. Some might baulk at the £6,600 price of that but compared to the titter-inducing six-figure sums that Naim routinely charges for its top o' the range home audio others might call the GT setup cheap. It was a 2,200-watt, 18-speaker system with active bass units built into the front seats to really ram home those low notes and create a seat-shaking cinema style experience.
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