2022 Bentley Continental GT VelocityBentleyBentley Motors will not be resting on its laurels following a report yr of gross sales in 2020 for the f
2022 Bentley Continental GT Velocity
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Bentley Motors will not be resting on its laurels following a report yr of gross sales in 2020 for the famed British luxurious carmaker.
The Volkswagen-owned firm on Tuesday unveiled the 2022 Continental GT Velocity, a brand new efficiency model of its bestselling automotive nameplate. Bentley is looking the car the “most succesful, performance-focused Bentley ever.”
The automotive is predicted to price about $274,900 when it goes on sale within the U.S. and Europe within the third quarter, adopted by different markets within the fourth quarter.
The 2-door efficiency automotive incorporates a 6.0-liter 12-cylinder engine rated at 650 horsepower and 664 foot-pounds of torque. The automotive runs 0-60 mph in 3.5 seconds. Its high pace is 208 mph, based on the automaker. The efficiency is barely higher than the Bentley Continental GT and Continental GT convertible with the identical engine. It additionally options extra efficiency elements and tuning, officers mentioned.
2022 Bentley Continental GT Velocity
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“The brand new Continental GT Velocity represents the very pinnacle of efficiency grand touring,” Matthias Rabe, Bentley’s head of engineering, mentioned in a launch.
The third-generation Continental GT Velocity may very well be one of many final, if not the final, nonelectrified variations of the automotive. Bentley plans to completely provide plug-in hybrid electrical or battery electrical autos by 2026, and full electrical autos solely by 2030.
“It is a huge change for a corporation that is grown up on 6.75-liter engines and W12 engines,” Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark mentioned throughout a media occasion. “We all know that laws, buyer style and the traits of battery-electric transmissions match completely with the Bentley technique, so we’re very enthusiastic about it.”
2022 Bentley Continental GT Velocity
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Hallmark mentioned the corporate doesn’t plan to have plug-in hybrid electrical autos (PHEVs) with V-12 engines. He mentioned V-Eight engines mixed with electrification are anticipated to attain related or higher efficiency. PHEVs mix battery know-how with inside combustion engines.
Bentley offered 11,206 autos in 2020 — regardless of a seven-week closure of its manufacturing unit in England through the top of the Covid-19 pandemic final spring. It topped the corporate’s 11,006-unit report in 2019. The Bentley Continental GT and Continental GT Convertible mixed to account for 39% of its gross sales.