2012 Bentley Continental GT Interior
WHAT’S NEW
The 2012 GT has lost a hundred sixty five pounds and options a tweaked front and back lighting design. New slim-line “cobra” front seats coddle riders while bathing their noses in olfactory goodness. Rear passengers get additional leg area, though a vi-foot friend needed to be practically tamped in sort of a cannon ball back there. The cabin’s cut with soft-bit leathers, a full vary of wood veneers, cool-bit metals and deep-pile carpets – all hand-crafted. Everywhere you look, listen, feel and smell uplifts you from the mundane and into the sublime.
THE POWER
The GT’s V-12, twin-turbocharged all-wheel-drive engine is explosive, with 567 snorting, galloping horses below its hood, and “Quick Shift technology” cuts shift time by fifty%. The process is thus seamlessly quiet that it’s like the car has just one speed; “stop” and “WOAH.”
Whereas you won’t mistake the GT for an R-eight or similar, velocity and stability are there when you need them and also the automobile also works as an all-around vehicle, appropriate for grocery runs or spirited back-road touring. Shift paddles permit you to grab more power as necessary. Four camshafts and 48 valves enable the engine to breathe effortlessly and facilitate generate torque, and the automobile’s capable of running on gasoline, the controversial E85 bioethanol, or any combine of the 2 – all from one tank.
An all-new, high-output 8-cylinder engine can be available to order later this year, Bentley honchos say.
THE GADGETS
10 years ago, my 1st test Bentley Arnage T came with a sound system, if you may call it that, seemingly from the Swing era. Bentley has, happily, massively upped their game since then. An eight-in. screen displays the GT’s audio system, phonephone, ride and luxury settings. The nav system, which uses both an in-automobile arduous-disc drive and a DVD player to access route data, employs “dynamic” navigation to guide you around areas of serious traffic, and finds destinations using geo-tagged photos from an SD memory card.
Your infotainment system offers a combination of touchscreen controls and classic knurled rotary switches. An eight-speaker sound system is offered as standard, using the newest “Balanced Mode Radiator” technology, and tunes can be be played and controlled from your iPod® plus from a six-disc CD changer, SD card reader or directly from the car’s exhausting-disc drive, that will store up to 15GB of music.
THE DRIVE
The week’s test took me over hill, dale, streets and highways, beneath windex-blue skies and therefore the black of night. This wasn't a protracted-distance drive, nor did I head for Limerock or Poconos Raceway as I’ve done with other Bentleys. It was every week of going where I required to go over rough roads and swish, and also the automobile did what a luxury car is supposed to do. It happy me, delighted me, relaxed me and rang a bell in my memory, in this world of accelerating plastic, chipboard and stuff that falls apart soon after purchase, that some things are still hand-engineered with the greatest of care and the finest of materials, and are price pursuing.
2012 Bentley Continental GT Side ViewThe 2012 GT has lost a hundred sixty five pounds and options a tweaked front and back lighting design. New slim-line “cobra” front seats coddle riders while bathing their noses in olfactory goodness. Rear passengers get additional leg area, though a vi-foot friend needed to be practically tamped in sort of a cannon ball back there. The cabin’s cut with soft-bit leathers, a full vary of wood veneers, cool-bit metals and deep-pile carpets – all hand-crafted. Everywhere you look, listen, feel and smell uplifts you from the mundane and into the sublime.
THE POWER
The GT’s V-12, twin-turbocharged all-wheel-drive engine is explosive, with 567 snorting, galloping horses below its hood, and “Quick Shift technology” cuts shift time by fifty%. The process is thus seamlessly quiet that it’s like the car has just one speed; “stop” and “WOAH.”
Whereas you won’t mistake the GT for an R-eight or similar, velocity and stability are there when you need them and also the automobile also works as an all-around vehicle, appropriate for grocery runs or spirited back-road touring. Shift paddles permit you to grab more power as necessary. Four camshafts and 48 valves enable the engine to breathe effortlessly and facilitate generate torque, and the automobile’s capable of running on gasoline, the controversial E85 bioethanol, or any combine of the 2 – all from one tank.
An all-new, high-output 8-cylinder engine can be available to order later this year, Bentley honchos say.
THE GADGETS
10 years ago, my 1st test Bentley Arnage T came with a sound system, if you may call it that, seemingly from the Swing era. Bentley has, happily, massively upped their game since then. An eight-in. screen displays the GT’s audio system, phonephone, ride and luxury settings. The nav system, which uses both an in-automobile arduous-disc drive and a DVD player to access route data, employs “dynamic” navigation to guide you around areas of serious traffic, and finds destinations using geo-tagged photos from an SD memory card.
Your infotainment system offers a combination of touchscreen controls and classic knurled rotary switches. An eight-speaker sound system is offered as standard, using the newest “Balanced Mode Radiator” technology, and tunes can be be played and controlled from your iPod® plus from a six-disc CD changer, SD card reader or directly from the car’s exhausting-disc drive, that will store up to 15GB of music.
THE DRIVE
The week’s test took me over hill, dale, streets and highways, beneath windex-blue skies and therefore the black of night. This wasn't a protracted-distance drive, nor did I head for Limerock or Poconos Raceway as I’ve done with other Bentleys. It was every week of going where I required to go over rough roads and swish, and also the automobile did what a luxury car is supposed to do. It happy me, delighted me, relaxed me and rang a bell in my memory, in this world of accelerating plastic, chipboard and stuff that falls apart soon after purchase, that some things are still hand-engineered with the greatest of care and the finest of materials, and are price pursuing.
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