YOU MUS NOW !!!! WHAT THE NEW BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT V8 S car photography
Channel: Auto Popular
Date: 2018-01-27

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The Continental GT V8 S continues with the same 521-hp variant of the Volkswagen Group’s 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8. All Contis get revised, sharper creases in the sheetmetal, a smaller grille, and a restyled decklid. Inside, the steering wheel shrinks a bit, the center console has been redone, and new materials choices are available, including stone veneers for those who prefer to knock on something a shade harder than wood and less common than carbon fiber. In a sop to modern life, in-car Wi-Fi now is an available 
While the W-12 has enough grunt to tow a principality and offers a unique howl when under load—especially in the over-the-top Speed models—the lighter V-8 Continentals are the undisputed athletes of Crewe’s line. Pushed hard, the V8 S seems to drop 1500 pounds, behaving like a smaller, nimbler, lighter machine than it actually is, reminding the driver of its true mass only as it nears its considerable limits. Another modern VW Group speed sled, the Porsche 911 Turbo S, seems to work entirely via some dark magic cast from the unholy bowels of Weissach. Not so with the Conti.
You can feel the big bruiser’s front wheels put themselves to work pulling the car out of tight corners. It comes off almost like an overgrown Audi Sport Quattro without the 1980s clunkiness or laughable turbo lag. As it is in Audi’s range of supersaloons, the snarling 4.0-liter V-8 is an unflappable powerplant, offering urge whenever it’s required. It’s not quite as visceral and violent as AMG’s new 4.0-liter, but it better suits the Bentley’s more-reserved character than the roaring, cracking thing from Affalterbach.
Like nearly all very luxurious British automobiles (save, perhaps, McLarens), architectures and the models they spawn remain in the lineup long after age would’ve spelled death in more-competitive, mainstream segments. It’s a syndrome that sometimes results in engaging accidental throwbacks like the refreshingly analog Aston Martin Vantage GT, but the Bentley winds up feeling a bit short of a charmingly quirky relic. Instead, it feels slightly out of phase with itself. Drive a Continental GT V8 S back-to-back with, say, a current Audi RS7, and the advances of the modern era are apparent. At this point, it appears Bentley’s platform may be at the outer edge of its life span.
We also weren’t fans of the carbon-fiber interior trim in our test car. The full name of the material is “carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic” after all, and plastic has no place in a Bentley interior. With such a wondrous range of woods to choose from courtesy of the marque’s Mulliner division, why would you settle for an appliqué that any halflluent schmoe can add to his leased S4?
Verdict: The eight-cylinder Continental’s moves keep it compelling, despite its age and relative jet-set ubiquity.


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