Bentley is celebrating 20 years of its self-described definitive grand tourer, the Continental GT, with the revealing of a one-of-one anniversary version of the newest sporty S variant, full with a number of distinctive options.
A four-month programme of distinctive fashions, drives and occasions started on the Shanghai Auto Present, with the brand new GT S draped in a strikingly sinister Magnetic darkish gray metallic, complemented by black chrome and black 22-inch 10-spoke sports activities wheels.
Purple brake callipers additionally characteristic, with the identical them carried inside, to a duo-tone end in Beluga and Hotspur leather-based with Piano Black highlights.
The higher fascia veneer is in Granite Stone, giving a singular tactile end, whereas the decrease veneer is in Grand Black and includes a laser-etched overlay celebrating the 20 yr anniversary of the Continental GT.
A pink pinstripe separates the 2 finishes, stretching throughout the fascia from door to door and passing throughout the higher vanes of the bullseye air vents. The treadplates proudly show two silhouettes, representing the 20 years of the trendy GT.
The identical design will be discovered on the centre console, whereas the LED welcome lamp within the door has a singular design celebrating the anniversary of the enduring grand tourer. Developed in partnership with Mulliner, it’s positive to turn into an icon.
Two drive hubs may even have a good time 20 years of the Continental GT, one at Bentley’s headquarters in Crewe and the opposite in Geneva, Switzerland. First and second-generation fashions from the model’s Heritage Assortment will probably be accessible to drive.
These will probably be supplied alongside the newest Continental GT household, vividly bringing to life 20 years of fixed design and engineering evolution. A Bentley ‘baton’, designed and created in home, may even start its international journey in Could.
It would journey in a wide range of Continental GT fashions throughout Europe, the Center East, China, Asia Pacific and the US earlier than returning to Crewe. At journey’s finish again in Crewe, the baton, now containing 20 mementoes of the tour, will turn into a time capsule.
It’s becoming too that the identical celebrations mark 20 years of the mighty 6.0-litre twin-turbo W12 engine, that has bodily and metaphorically powered Bentley to success over twenty years.
This milestone will probably be celebrated on the Goodwood Competition of Pace (13-16 July), the place Bentley will characteristic a shifting showcase of W12-powered vehicles from the final 20 years, as much as and together with the brand new Bentley Batur by Mulliner.
Lastly, Bentley can pay homage to the very first Continental GT (VIN 20001), which was completed in Cypress Inexperienced with an inside in Saddle disguise and Burr Walnut at this yr’s Monterey Automobile Week (August 11-18), revealing a last one-of-one Continental GT.
