Bently, a company that I am a fan of. Their build their cars with second to none quality and although there is always so much technology, there is never enough to confuse you. Now, you remember the Bently Continental GT right? you know, the car that looked amazing and had a huge engine but had an even huger weight. It was a bit like David and Galiath, except the engine was David and the Body was Galiath. The engine only just about won the battle and got the car moving, somehow anyway.
Well, Bently have decided to make a covertable that looks a bit like the continental. Its called the Bently GTC and it has been given a twin-turbo W12 engine (2 V6's combined). This means that 600 horse powers fly out the back of the exaust meanwhile it is also delivering 500-lb ft of torque. This makes it the most powerful convertable that Bently has ever made. Now, you may be thinking; Bently are trying to make a sports car? Oh come on! you should know better than that. Bently don't do sports and they never will as long as the companies director still has his head screwed on. But despite this they still wanted to make the handling good so they have added low friction dampers, a lower ride height, wider tires and retuned steering. And don't worry about stopping this thing as it has the biggest brakes fitted on a car today. Plus, they wont ware out until the next ice age (don't hold me to that because with the winter we've had I think we might get one) because they are carbon ceramic. Despite trying to go on a diet the car hasn't cut out the cakes yet, but considering that it will still take you to 60 in 4.5 seconds which is phenonminal for a car that fat. Another shocking thing is, if its raining and you don't want the roof down you can go 200 mph. And with those brakes you can afford to go 200mph in the wet, i would go 200mph in the ice with those brakes, not to mention the grip on the new wide tires. You can even have it in 2 new colours but I don't really see the point as Bently will do your car in any colour you want anyway. So thats about it for now but if I get any more info I will let you know.
Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/06/detroit-preview-bentley-gtc-speed-is-last-but-not-least/
