BY JOHN PHILLIPS, PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON KILEY
Antique Road Show: What would Andy Warhol drive?
This road test may be irrelevant. Which wouldn’t necessarily make it unique to the pages of C/D. This time, however, it isn’t our fault. See, Bentley is going to create only 550 Brooklands—delivering the final one toward the end of 2009—and 549 of them are already spoken for. The grand-touring coupe you see on these pages, in a color Bentley calls “Porcelain,” is the last copy for sale. Or was at the time this was written. (more…)
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BY ERIK JOHNSON
A Conti GT with 50 extra horsepower takes Bentley to a place it’s never been.
How many times in your career as a Bentley salesperson have you found yourself in the embarrassing position of having nearly closed the sale on a Continental GT only to be rebuffed when the customer finds out it isn’t capable of 200 mph? (more…)
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BY STEVEN COLE SMITH, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE VALENTE
A new, old-school coupe for the high and mighty.
Interesting that in the literature for the new Bentley Brooklands, a limited-edition, even-more-upscale version of the Arnage, there’s little mention of the last Bentley Brooklands, a sedan sold from 1992 to 1997 that replaced the Mulsanne as the marque’s flagship. (more…)
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The 2007 Bentley Continental GT is a 2-door, 4-passenger luxury coupe, available in one trim only, the Coupe.
Upon introduction, the Continental GT is equipped with a standard 6.0-liter, W12, 552-horsepower, turbo engine that achieves 12-mpg in the city and 19-mpg on the highway. A 6-speed automatic transmission with overdrive is standard.
The 2007 Bentley Continental GTC is a 2-door, 4-passenger luxury convertible, available in one trim only, the Convertible.
Upon introduction, the Continental GTC is equipped with a standard 6.0-liter, W12, 552-horsepower, turbo engine that achieves 11-mpg in the city and 18-mpg on the highway. A 6-speed automatic transmission with overdrive is standard.
Prices = GT $169,990
GTC $189,990
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