2022 Bentley Continental GT Pace
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Bentley Motors is not resting on its laurels following a file calendar year of sales in 2020 for the famed British luxury carmaker.
The Volkswagen-owned enterprise on Tuesday unveiled the 2022 Continental GT Speed, a new performance variation of its bestselling automobile nameplate. Bentley is contacting the car or truck the “most able, overall performance-concentrated Bentley at any time.”
The auto is predicted to value about $274,900 when it goes on sale in the U.S. and Europe in the 3rd quarter, followed by other marketplaces in the fourth quarter.
The two-doorway performance automobile capabilities a 6.-liter 12-cylinder engine rated at 650 horsepower and 664 foot-pounds of torque. The car or truck operates -60 mph in 3.5 seconds. Its major pace is 208 mph, in accordance to the automaker. The performance is somewhat much better than the Bentley Continental GT and Continental GT convertible with the same motor. It also attributes extra general performance areas and tuning, officers said.
2022 Bentley Continental GT Pace
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“The new Continental GT Speed signifies the really pinnacle of performance grand touring,” Matthias Rabe, Bentley’s head of engineering, stated in a launch.
The third-technology Continental GT Pace could be just one of the past, if not the previous, nonelectrified versions of the car. Bentley programs to solely give plug-in hybrid electric or battery electric automobiles by 2026, and complete electric cars only by 2030.
“This is a big transform for a company which is developed up on 6.75-liter engines and W12 engines,” Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark explained in the course of a media function. “We know that legislation, client style and the traits of battery-electric powered transmissions in good shape completely with the Bentley approach, so we’re pretty thrilled about it.”
2022 Bentley Continental GT Speed
Bentley
Hallmark claimed the business does not plan to have plug-in hybrid electrical automobiles (PHEVs) with V-12 engines. He reported V-8 engines merged with electrification are anticipated to attain related or superior functionality. PHEVs mix battery technologies with internal combustion engines.
Bentley sold 11,206 vehicles in 2020 — irrespective of a 7-7 days closure of its manufacturing unit in England throughout the height of the Covid-19 pandemic previous spring. It topped the company’s 11,006-unit report in 2019. The Bentley Continental GT and Continental GT Convertible put together to account for 39% of its revenue.