It's the most potent drop-top Bentley has ever built – and with a 202mph top speed, it’s the world’s fastest four-seat cabriolet, too!
Auto Express has the first official pictures of the new Continental Supersports Convertible, a twin turbocharged four-seat cabriolet that offers a staggering 621bhp and 800Nm of torque.
Set to debut on Bentley’s stand at March’s Geneva Motor Show, the car covers the 0-60mph sprint in only 3.9 seconds, while 0-100mph is dispatched in 9.6 seconds.
The Supersports Convertible wears the same white paintwork as the 2008 Supersports Coupé, and is distinguished by its road-hugging ride height, and unique front and rear bumper treatment.
Inside, drivers can look forward to specially finished carbon fibre trim, and so-called ‘soft-grip’ leather trim which has a suede-like finish. All cars also get upgrades to standard equipment too, including a new adaptive cruise control system.
What’s more, Bentley has also announced that all of its Continental models from now on will be capable of running on E85 biofuel, as part of the company’s commitment to make all of its cars compatible with renewable energy sources by 2012.
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Poor Bentley - what have they done to you? I can see this being bought by footballers and their WAGS. A far cry from the class act that Bentley used to be. The use of biofuel is disturbing, given that we now know the amount of damage the production if doing to the environment and food supplies. It's not renewable - it's highly destructive.
This is just a VW badged as a Bentley and i thought they would have stopped making these by now. Such a prestige brand name and they put the VW wrobe over it - what a f**king shame. This is like they say its a footballer's and their Wagger's car, its ugly, not a true Bentley because there is nothing British about it. Its got VW chassis, VW engine shared with the Bugatti and VW electronics and it won't age well. Later they have built a proper 6.7L V8 engine, ideally it would be a proper Rolls-Royce V8 but knowing BMW they'd say "nein nein!! use our BMW V12". The sooner they get rid of this the better and start making proper Bentleys.