Bentley unveils 4th-generation Continental GT Speed at Monterey Car Week

Bentley’s new, fourth-generation Continental GT Speed is to make its US debut this week, at the prestigious The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering – part of Monterey Car Week.

The launch will feature the first new Continental GT Speed to include bespoke content added by Mulliner, Crewe-based Bentley’s in-house personalisation and coachbuilding division.

Responsible not only for bespoke work to mainstream Bentley models, now including the new Continental GT Speed, Mulliner also created the Blower and Speed Six Continuation Series and the highly limited Bacalar, Batur and Batur Convertible coachbuilt Bentleys.

From launch, the new Continental GT Speed is available with personalised details through Mulliner’s Personal Commissioning Guide. This permits customers to explore their imagination away from the typical options list, which alone can create tens of billions of possible specification combinations.

For Monterey Car Week, an orange-themed GT Speed created through Mulliner will lead the fleet.

The exterior paintwork is finished in Orange Flame Satin, one of 15 satin colours in Bentley’s paint range that each take up to 55 hours of craftsmanship to apply and finish to the perfect standard.

In contrast to the orange bodywork, all exterior brightware is finished in gloss black, with matching black-painted 22” 10-spoke wheels with self-levelling badges. The visual impact of the specification is matched aurally, thanks to a sports exhaust and the Naim for Bentley audio system.

A fleet of more than 30 new Continental GT Speeds has now arrived in North America, ready to start a nationwide dealer tour and a programme of customer drives and events to demonstrate the potency of Bentley’s new Ultra Performance Hybrid powertrain.

The new Grand Tourer can accelerate from standstill to 60 mph in just 3.1 seconds, achieve a top speed of 208mph, and travel 50 miles on electric power alone on the EU drive cycle, while creating only 29 g/km of CO2  and with a total range of more than 500 miles.