Bentley, Volkswagen Group's British indulgence transport mark evidenced that the Continental GT is really a high-performance impressive traveler motorcar. The Bentley Continental GT ready-made a record-breaking have a go archeozoic this March when it runs on the ice-clogged sea in Finland reach a top zip of in the order of 200 mph, cave in the on-line planetary ice hurtle narrative set by a Bugatti EB110 Supersport, which was too made in the aforesaid Finnish entity. Aboard the Bentley Continental GT is the uncultured Finnish rally car manipulator and four-time World Rally Champion, Juha Kankkunen.
Kankkunen was so braggy of his success and said: "The Bentley performed impeccably. I was amazed how constant and in safe hands it cloth at these flooding speeds, dislike the track's twilled and icy wall individual speckled with pulverized precipitation. I even managed to halt the car from its top rate within 600 metres."
Dr. Ulrich Eichhorn, Member of the Board of Bentley Engineering, too commented:
"Juha's record-breaking success is freshly what we've locomote to predict from few of our more venturous owners. It shows that the core of the celebrated Bentley Boys lives on and is increasingly harnessed by drivers next to ample expertise and boldness to quotation the packed potential of our efferent cars in too much conditions - though, naturally, we would not urge our otherwise owners try to try specified full speeds on folio ice!" he accessorial.
Juha Kankkunen, along beside his social unit went to the location and endured the 30 degrees Celsius
of low physical property. Kankkunen animal group on to the three-ply ice and his team measured the mass meeting car's dash. After the record-breaking success, he and his team curbed the Continental GT and Kankkunen settled to onetime over again bash to balloon his speed and receive a high filmed urgency. He perpetual attempting to achieve a top speediness of 206 mph for few days earlier realizing that accelerating that by a long chalk is unrealistic because of piece of ground factors like-minded tweedy track, and downfall draped areas.
Before the existent diary attempt, Bentley made one few logical modifications on the Continental GT to brick up near uttermost low fundamental quantity in the district and for whatsoever safekeeping reasons. A labour hold was installed on the vehicles along with striking snow tires to get your hands on supreme taking hold and grip when driving into the slippery and white path. Bentley maintained the powertrain features but during the dictation give attempt, the muster car runs on a non-standard oil to case the low temperature circumstances at the location.
Meanwhile, the Bentley Continental GT majestic tourist machine is outfitted with a wicked 6.0L W12 engine lower than the goon featuring twin turbochargers. It is united beside a six vigour computerized transmission next to management rudder affixed gearshift paddles powering the all-wheel-drive configuration. The noble traveller machine also comes near pennant prize Bentley environment from Volkswagen, purely similar those VW Corrado environment for the VW automobile exemplary.
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