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Bentley Continental Supersports //<br />

Continental souped<br />

By JAMES STANFORD<br />

BENTLEY has unleashed its most<br />

performance-oriented model in<br />

Australia, the Continental Supersports.<br />

But the fastest Bentley ever produced is<br />

not cheap at $525,000, which represents a<br />

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$126,413 premium over the standard GT and a<br />

$96,753 premium over the GT Speed.<br />

The first car has just arrived in Australia,<br />

with more customer cars expected to arrive<br />

in January and February. Bentley expects to<br />

deliver 15 of the ballistic coupes to Australian<br />

customers before the end of next year.<br />

The Continental Supersports is the first<br />

model to emerge from the Volkswagenowned<br />

company’s base at Crewe in England<br />

with carbon fibre components, which have<br />

helped Bentley engineers cull 110kg from the<br />

Bentley’s potent Continental<br />

Supersports is a 329km/h monster<br />

Continental GT Speed.<br />

Around 26kg of this comes from the<br />

removal of the rear seats, which means the<br />

Supersports is now a two-seater coupe, while<br />

another 45kg has been saved by replacing<br />

the sumptuous leather front seats with new<br />

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