Bentley has unveiled what it is calling the most dynamic road car in the British brand’s one hundred and one-12 months record, the third-generation Bentley Continental GT Pace.
The new Pace product sits at the leading of the Continental GT variety, including far more electricity and overall performance, as properly as growing the GT’s handling potential, separating it from the relaxation of the line-up with Pace-distinct styling touches.
Like the relaxation of Bentley’s latest and most new Pace-badged designs, this new Continental GT Pace is powered by a tuned model of the firm’s 6.-litre twin-turbocharged W12 motor, generating 650bhp and 900Nm of torque.
That considerable output is sent to all four wheels as a result of an 8-speed twin-clutch automated gearbox with start control, so inspite of the car’s no doubt chunky kerbweight (the regular Continental GT W12 weighs two,244kg), it’ll sprint from -60mph in just 3.5 seconds and hit a leading speed of 208mph.
Bentley claims the gearbox’s shifts are twice as quickly in Activity method when compared with the regular W12 Continental, whilst the powertrain has been calibrated to make the most of the improved output, holding onto gears longer in Activity method, and downshifting previously.
An optional carbon-ceramic brake technique has been introduced to assure the Pace stops as properly as it goes. The ten-piston entrance calipers are joined by four-piston rear things, whilst the carbon-ceramic materials for the discs will help shave 33kg of unsprung mass when compared with a regular steel brake set-up.
The car retains Bentley’s Variable Displacement technique, which can shut down 50 {7e488363c11ee5ef50445c8c4fa770b6e6e4f99e57faea264a05ac52abb3ffe0} of the engine’s twelve cylinders underneath selected problems to support enhance efficiency. Although supplied the regular Continental GT’s statements of 20.8mpg and 308g/km of CO2, the even far more potent Pace will still be far from economical.
Bentley Continental GT Pace: upgraded chassis techniques
Bentley’s engineers have equipped the Speed’s chassis with four new items of tech to consist of the excess electricity and make the car far more participating to push. This includes an electronically controlled minimal-slip differential on the Speed’s rear axle for better on-throttle adjustability, in accordance to Bentley. It’s the 1st time the brand has used an eLSD.
It’s joined by an Electronic All-Wheel Steering technique to more enhance agility. At very low and medium speeds the rear wheels convert in the opposite way to the fronts, assisting boost agility. Its effects are far more distinguished in Activity method, in accordance to Bentley, where all of the Speed’s new techniques merge to supply “a stage of agility contrary to any other Bentley road car.”
At better speeds the rear wheels convert in the identical way as the fronts to enhance stability.
The car’s lively all-wheel push technique has been recalibrated in all push modes, which the brand claims contributes toward “a noticeable character shift relative to the regular Continental GT.”
A lot more electricity is sent to the rear axle in Activity, whilst the different temperament has also been released by an ESC technique that permits a better degree of flexibility for the driver prior to intervening.
On leading of this, the Speed’s a few-chamber adaptive air suspension and the 48-volt lively anti-roll tech – referred to as Bentley Dynamic Ride – has also been tuned to maximise cornering potential, but with no an effects to ease and comfort.
Bentley Continental GT Pace: practicality and style
In spite of becoming the most able, overall performance-targeted Bentley ever, the Pace is still a GT so wants to supply ease and comfort and refinement, as properly as practicality.
Grand Touring capability comes courtesy of the two+two cabin and 235-litre boot, whilst a host of new styling sections and trim solutions make their debut on the new Continental GT Pace.
Exterior, the car athletics a dim-tinted most important radiator grille and reduced grille, there are chunkier facet sills and ‘Speed’ badging on the entrance wings.
A new set of 22-inch ‘Speed’ style alloy wheels with the choice of a dim tint or a black gloss complete feature, as well.
Within, there is far more unique trim and badging for the flagship, with plenty of potential for personalisation as properly.
There are fifteen most important and 11 secondary colors for the leather, whilst the interior functions a ‘duotone’ color split in leather and Alcantara which is also utilized to the steering wheel.
The centre console can be concluded in a new ‘Dark Tint Engined Turned’ aluminium sample, there’s ‘Diamond in Diamond’ quilted leather as regular within, moreover embroidered Pace badging for the headrests and a badge on the car’s dash.
Piano black veneer is regular, but of course, as the variety topping Bentley Continental GT clients can pick from a variety of different wood veneer finishes to modify the spec of the car within, as properly as including plenty of other personalisation solutions.
Bentley hasn’t yet confirmed pricing, but supplied the regular W12 Continental GT’s £159,900 value tag, and the move up in value from other ‘regular’ Bentley designs to their Pace-badged equivalents, the new Continental GT Pace could cost far more than £180,000 when it goes on sale in the summer season.
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