The Continental GTC may seem more of a "Californian sun-drenched wafter" than the "British upper-class bruiser" you'd expect from Bentley, says Steve Moody in Car. "But slide behind the wheel of this new model and it is still very much everything a Bentley should be, and that means lashings of power, a pretty useful chassis and luxury slathered exquisitely about the place." It's an "elegantly muscular beast", "sharper and less blobby than its predecessor", and inside it is "a very special place", swathed in hand-stitched leather.
And to drive? It's "epic", says Moody. The car is powered by a W12, 6.0-litre, twin turbocharged engine, and produces 567bhp and 516lb ft of torque. This propels the two-and-a-half-tonne Bentley to 60mph in 4.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 195mph. It's "bloody quick", in short, with "wonderful" ride quality and astonishingly accurate steering. As a "dashing, handsome, very fast and extremely capable four-seat luxury convertible, it is extremely hard to beat".
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