Review: Bentley Continental GT Speed PHEV

Review: Bentley Continental GT Speed PHEV
Half a million dollars is just the start for your Continental GT Speed purchase. (Images: Driven/Supplied)
David Linklater
It must be annoying for anti-EV people when a plug-in car comes along that’s better in every respect than the pure-combustion one it replaces.That’s pretty much the case with Bentley’s new performance flagship, the Continental GT Speed. We can’t say we won’t miss the gentle warble of the W12 that powered this and other Bentley models in the past, but the new V8 plug-in hybrid in the 4th-generation model trounces it.Yes, it still has a petrol engine under the bonnet, a heavily revised version of the V8 that is famil...

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