Selective pictures indicate new search for Continental GT, spied under Porsche body and set to impart Panamera tech
The all-new Bentley Continental GT has made its first strides in front of an anticipated dispatch in 2017, and our spy shots demonstrate it will be twinned with the cutting edge Porsche Panamera, due in 2016. Our restrictive picture demonstrates how the car will develop for its third era.
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In spite of the fact that the dark model in our grainy spy shots is wearing Porsche bodywork, there are various giveaways that this is, truth be told, the new Continental GT experiencing early element testing. Most telling is the UK plate, which uncovers its an “obscure” dark Bentley fitted with a 4.0-liter V8 motor. The second is the abbreviated back entryways, recommending the four-entryway format is a smokescreen, and there’s a three-entryway roadster under neat
As we’ve beforehand reported, the new Continental GT will be taking into account an abbreviated rendition of the same lightweight MSB stage as the new Panamera. As Porsche is driving the advancement on this new back and four-wheel-drive structural planning, intended for elite applications, it will dispatch the Panamera first in 2016, with the Continental after a year.
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As should be obvious, Bentley is determined to making the GT its Porsche 911 and not tinkering with the outline excessively. Then again, subtle elements, for example, the ‘whisky-glass’ headlamps and the full-width lower grille are prone to be taken from the EXP 10 Speed 6, seen at March’s Geneva Motor Show
Our model photographs likewise demonstrate that an advancement of the current 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 will be offered over the new Continental GT, GTC and Flying Spur range, and additionally a module half and half interestingly – affirmed by Wolfgang Dürheimer, Bentley CEO, finally month’s Shanghai Motor Show: “There will be mixtures in the cutting edge GT and Flying Spur – its an absolute necessity have,” he said. “Module half breeds are the answer for us [to diminish CO2 emissions] later on. It’s a tech that will take after the engine business for quite a time
Dürheimer was less excited about immaculate electric drivetrains, however, saying: “There is space for unadulterated electric autos without burning motors, yet they will stay in the specialty. For Bentley, its not the proper thing to do.
“It may change, however the length of the batteries are as overwhelming as they seem to be, the stockpiling limit is constrained and we don’t have the scope of tantamount burning motor autos, then for us its not important.”
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