Shifts from the six-speed ZF gearbox are quickened-you can hear how quick they are on the Supersports coupe in our weekly “ Name That Exhaust Note” blog feature. Bentley claims 0 to 60 mph should take 3.9 seconds, and given the quickest time we’ve wrung out of a Continental GTC Speed is 4.3 seconds, that sounds pretty close.
At 5400 or so pounds, it’s still hardly light, but 621 hp does a fine job of overcoming the mass. Weight primarily comes out of the seats, brakes, and wheels. This particular one takes the Bentley Continental GTC (GT convertible), strips out nearly 200 pounds, drops the suspension 0.4 inch and stiffens it by up to 33 percent, and wrings another 21 hp out of the 6.0-liter W-12 engine.
Think WhirlyBall, which mixes bumper cars with elements of jai alai and basketball or paintball, which mixes participants shooting one another with not dying.īentley already has superhero-level Continentals in the family-the Speed versions of the GT, Flying Spur, and GTC-but the Supersports models are more thoroughly changed beasts. Everybody knows that sports are contests of skill in which a winner emerges, but what are supersports? Judging from the Bentley Supersports, which pairs the automaker’s expected refinement and elegance with supercollider acceleration and centrifugal corner stickiness, Supersports are something altogether more strange, like a mixture of various sports.
