Bentley reveals new carbon fibre pack for Continental GT and Bentayga

Bentley has included a new carbon fibre styling package deal to each the Continental GT and Bentayga’s comprehensive lists of customisation options. The enhance will cost about £8,500 on the coupe and £17,000 on the SUV, boosting the two cars’ foundation-price ranges to all around £160,000 and £140,000 respectively.

The styling package deal was intended by the engineering staff dependable for the aero elements on the specific edition Pikes Peak Continental GT, and includes a further carbon fibre splitter, broader carbon fibre aspect skirts and a much larger carbon fibre diffuser to the standard-situation Continental GT and Bentayga.

• Finest luxurious autos on sale now

Each autos get new rear spoilers, with the coupe receiving a low-degree lip for the boot-lid and the SUV getting an great bi-plane wing for its tailgate. There’s a smattering of recently minted metallic badging, way too, and consumers can pick out to have each cars’ entrance air blades, wing vents and mirror caps in the very same carbon fibre end.

Bentley suggests its enhancement programme for the aerodynamic updates has been rigorous, with each car or truck currently being issue to a hundred,000km (all around sixty two,000 miles) of testing. This is to make absolutely sure the spitter won’t be ripped absent from the bumper if the automobile strikes a kerb, or that the aspect skirts won’t rattle their way unfastened around rough roads.

Every automobile has also been tested in laptop or computer simulations, in a wind tunnel and on the track to make sure the updates really do not have a destructive effect on possibly car’s handling and stability.

The styling package deal is accessible to order now on any new Continental GT or Bentayga, with deliveries expected shortly soon after the government travel limits have lifted. Even so, if you’re lucky plenty of to possess possibly car or truck, Bentley will also retrofit the package deal to your automobile at any of its British isles suppliers.

Do you like the glimpse of Bentley’s new carbon fibre styling pack? Permit us know in the feedback portion below…