Bentley Continental GT

Bentley Continental GT

It has a cool sporty design, With a W-12 engine, a 6-speed semi-automatic gearbox and a top speed of 198mph.

The PERFORMANCE FILE of Continental GT:
It does a quarter of a mile in 13.4 seconds at 106 mph
It does 0 to 60 in 4.7 seconds
It does 0 to 100 in 21.2 seconds
The horsepower is 552 bhp at 6100 rpm (that’s a pretty powerful engine)

FACT FILE:
The company of Bentley Motors was located at Cricklewood in North West London.
It was founded by Walter Owen Bentley (1888-1971).
It become famous by winning the Le Mans 24-hour Race four times in a row between 1927 and 1930.
But the stock market crash of 1929 destroyed deman for the company’s expensive products and it was sold to Rolls-Royce
in 1931. The most notable car in the Rolls-Royce period was probably the Bentley Continental,
which appeared in various forms from 1952 to 1965, and again in 1992, with production ending in 2003.
Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors was purchased from Vickers (its owner since 1980) by Volkswagen for £430 million (In 1998).


After bidding against BMW. BMW had recently started supplying components for the new range of cars, notably V8 engines for the Bentley Arnage and V12 engines for the Rolls-Royce SilverSeraph.
The Rolls-Royce name was not included in VW's purchase; it was instead licensed to BMW (for £40 million) by the Rolls-Royce aero engine company.
BMW and VW came to an agreement whereby VW would manufacture both Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars until the end of 2002, whereupon the right to build Rolls-Royce cars would be BMW's alone.
During this period, Volkswagen reduced its reliance on BMW as a supplier: as of 2003, BMW engines are not used in Bentley cars.

The company introduced the Continental GT, a large luxury coupe In 2003 .
The car is powered by a version of VW's W-12 engine. Demand has been so great that the factory at Crewe, Cheshire, has been unable to satisfy demand despite producing 4,500 vehicles a year and there is a waiting list of over a year for new vehicles to be delivered. Consequently there are proposals to produce the new model Flying Spur, a four-door version of the Continental GT Dresden, a city in the southeastern part of Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945. Dresden in the same factory where the VW Phateon luxury car is made.

Bentley GTZ Zagato Concept

Bentley GTZ Zagato Concept

The Zagato Atelier takes great pleasure in introducing the Bentley GTZ, the latest in a long line of collaborations with the very best British car manufacturers over the Milanese Atelier 's 89.

The Bentley GTZ is a neo-classic Zagato interpretation of the style of a British GT.

The project was conceived during a discussion between Dr. Ing. Franz Josef Paefgen, CEO of Bentley Motors Limited and Dr. Andrea Zagato, President of Zagato at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance in 2006. At a 'Tribute to Zagato' presentation, Zagato showed a selection of 50' 60's models, near by the recent berlinettas presented during the last 3 years. Dr. Paefgen was struck by the beauty of those cars and reminded of the historical significance of the art of the Carrozzeria (coachbuilders) which was both being maintained and carried forward by Zagato.

Starting from the styling cues of the last neo classical coupes, which became milestones of Zagato design in the new millennium, the challenge was to apply the same design language to a completely different proportion of vehicle: the Bentley Continental GT Speed.

Even with many technical restrictions and carry-over parts in order to maintain the basic functions of this extremely sophisticated vehicle, the Zagato design team managed to give a distinctive and attractive character to the Zagato coupe.

Pronounced fender lines, double-bubble roof, round tail with all new rear combination lamp are harmoniously integrated in to an imposing body adding a more aggressive and sharp feeling without losing the absolute solidity which is part of the great charm of the original coupe. The same time the hand painted pin-stripe coordinated with the interior colour adds a refined and exclusive elegance to the extrovert body lines helps to make the look of this car appropriate to be special limited-production model born between two great automotive cultures: Bentley and Zagato.