From RobbReport.com…..
Bentley has taken a number of steps to make sure the 2022 Bentley Continental GT Speed lives up to its name.
The British marque has just unveiled the new-and-improved version of its regal grand tourer’s high-performance variant. And thanks to an uprated W12 engine it just might be the most dynamic Bentley yet.
The Speed’s 6.0-liter twin-turbo W12 may not be new but it has been optimized. The specially tuned mill is now capable of generating 650 horses and 664 ft lbs of twist, according to the automaker. That’s an increase of 24 horsepower over the standard Continental GT W12, though the torque figure remains the same. Mated to an eight-speed, dual-clutch automatic transmission that has been newly calibrated to shift through gears twice as fast as before, the engine can rocket the elegant speed machine from zero to 60 mph in just 3.5 seconds, a tenth of a second faster than the base W12, and push it to a top speed of 208 mph.
