Bentley Continental GTC as well as GTC Speed 80-11 Editions Unveiled

Over a weekend, Bentley unveiled a Continental GTC as well as GTC Speed 80-11 Editions during a Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

Built to one side for North America, the models underline unique Midnight paint (other colors have been additionally accessible, the Dark Grey Metallic soothing top, a Mulliner fuel-filler top, as well as Union Jack badges on a front fenders. The GTC gets 20-inch 14-spoke amalgamate wheels, whilst a Speed has dim colored 20-inch wheels from the Continental Supersports.

Inside, Bentley combined Beluga leather seats, white piping (Pillar Box Red upon a Speed), Piano Black veneers, an engine-turned aluminum lurch (bright in the GTC / dim in the Speed), drilled amalgamate pedals, as well as “80-11 Edition” sill plates.

The GTC facilities the twin-turbo 6.0-liter W12 engine with 552 hp (412 kW / 560 PS) as well as 479 lb-ft (649 Nm) of torque. It allows a automobile to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 4.8 seconds, prior to attack the top speed of 195 mph (314 km/h).

The GTC Speed uses the same engine, but has 600 hp (447 kW / 608 PS) as well as 553 lb-ft (749 Nm) of torque. Thanks to a extra energy, a automobile rockets from 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds as well as has the tip speed of 200 mph (322 km/h).

On sale this fall, production will be singular to 80 units each.

Source: Bentley
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BENTLEY MOTORS ANNOUNCES ENTRANCE OF DUAL LIMITED-EDITION DROPHEADS AT PEBBLE BEACH

Continental GTC and GTC Speed 80-11 Editions Unveiled

(Pebble Beach, CA) Bentley Motors is displaying a company’s new limited-edition Continental GTC as well as GTC Speed 80-11 models, written exclusively for a North American market, upon a Concept Lawn during a 60th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

Both of these new cars mix a mythological opening, opulence as well as craftsmanship for that the 91-year old Bentley marque is eminent, as well as the combined exclusivity of being commissioned for the single marketplace. The 80-11 nomination underlines only how singular these opulence British convertibles will be with Bentley office building only 80 examples of any drophead in 2011.

Unique as well as Distinctive Exterior Styling

The GTC as well as GTC Speed 80-11 models deliver a same superb performance as their ‘standard’ Bentley counterparts though with their own strong as well as strange styling stories.

The lush GTC 80-11 facilities new 20-inch, 14-spoke amalgamate solid wheels, discriminating with singular black core caps featuring Bentley’s particular ‘B’ button. The some-more performance-oriented GTC Speed 80-11 offers a muscular Supersports’ 20-inch wheels, now finished with an eye-catching dim stain, as well as displaying sporty red stop calipers underneath.

Both cars give the curtsy to Bentley’s British birthright as well as incomparable craftsmanship, with Union Jack brightware badges featured upon the front fenders.

Bentley’s extensive preference of colors is accessible for both GTC 80-11 models but for those looking even some-more exclusivity, a brand new as well as singular tone – Midnight – has been consecrated for these high-performance convertibles. The 80-11 GTC as well as GTC convertibles offer a Dark Grey Metallic soothing tip as well as a Mulliner fuel-filler top as standard.

A Unique Interpretation of Bentley Craftsmanship and Refinement

Bentley’s styling group has combined dual singular interiors for these exclusive convertibles. The main leather censor preference for both vehicles is Beluga, as well as a contrariety stitching, piping as well as Bentley emblems are white upon a GTC and Pillar Box Red upon a GTC Speed. The result is the clever, dim categorical censor tone, accented by a resisting hand-stitching as well as piping.

To element a Piano Black veneers upon both 80-11 Editions, a engine-turned aluminum dash has a splendid finish in a GTC as well as the sportier dim finish for the GTC Speed. Race-inspired drilled amalgamate competition feet pedals are standard on both vehicles as well as to serve compute a special editions, the vehicles’ treadplates as well as the pinnedtoken upon the console are branded with a “80-11 Edition” signature.

The 80-11 Edition GTCs as well as a 80-11 Edition GTC Speeds arrive during Bentley dealers in tumble of 2010 as model-year 2011 vehicles.

Exhilarating Bentley Performance and FlexFuel Technology

Since the launch in 2006 a Continental GTC has enjoyed sales success in over 50 countries around the world and sketch younger buyers to a Bentley marque. Customers have been captivated to the multiple of sleek pattern, interior craftsmanship, thespian performance and polished though flexible doing. The GTC boasts the twin-turbo 6-liter W12 engine, producing 552hp and 479 lb-ft of torque. The GTC’s tip speed is 195mph (190mph with the tip down and the 0-60mph scurry time is only 4.8 seconds.

Responding to client direct for an even some-more manly as well as driver-focused automobile, the GTC Speed debuted in summer of 2009. The Speed additionally uses the twin-turbo 6-liter W12 powertain though Bentley’s engineers have serve optimized its opening to create 600hp as well as 553 lb-ft of torque. With the tip speed of 200mph (195mph with tip down a Speed was a world’s fastest four-seat prolongation automobile, prior to a new attainment of the Bentley stablemate a Supersports Convertible, with the 0-60mph time of usually 4.5 seconds.

For model-year 2011, a GTC as well as GTC Speed, along with all Bentley Continentals, features FlexFuel technology, which enables the car to run on gasoline, E85 biofuel or any brew of a dual but any compromise in opening. As partial of the environmental strategy, Bentley has affianced to revoke CO2 by 15% by suggesting FlexFuel powertrains across the entirevehicle lineup by a finish of 2012, as well as it has affianced to deliver the new powertrain which reduces fuel expenditure as well as CO2 emissions by 40%.