{"id":824303,"date":"2021-10-26T01:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/?post_type=issue_content&#038;p=824303"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:58:03","slug":"bentley-continental-gt-v8-convertible-review","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/december-2021\/42\/bentley-continental-gt-v8-convertible-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Continental GT V8 Convertible review"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"c-content-block content-block content-section\">\n    <div class=\"container user-content\">\n        <div class=\"article-boxout\">\n<p>I have decided that there is one attribute I value in a car more than any other. It is that said car, be it large or small, fast or slow, expensive or cheap, knows what it is for. This also explains my aversion to all those awful crossover SUV neither-fish-nor-fowl things with which the new car market is these days abrim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And this Bentley knows precisely what it is for. Now, as it happens, somewhat visually ostentatious convertibles are some distance from being my kind of car, but that doesn\u2019t really matter.<\/p>\n<p>This Bentley is for people who want to be able to travel long distances in great comfort to some far-flung, sunny location and then drop the roof and strike exactly the right note when they get there. In this regard it is very hard to fault indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the roof up you are still somehow unaware there is fabric rather than metal above you; there is no structural shake and the whole car comes with a sense of quality that has been designed in, rather than applied as a veneer thereafter. It\u2019s hugely heavy as a result, but that\u2019s fine for this kind of car too, so long as you can afford the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>And no, you absolutely do not need the 12-cylinder model. This V8 is plenty fast enough, sounds much better and costs much less. In short this Bentley knows not just what it is for, but whom it is for too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"proxima\"><strong>Bentley Continental GT V8 Convertible statistics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-boxout\">\n<p class=\"proxima large-text\"><strong>Price<\/strong> \u00a3182,800<br \/>\n<strong>Engine<\/strong> 4 litres, eight cylinders, turbocharged, petrol<br \/>\n<strong>Power<\/strong> 542bhp<br \/>\n<strong>Torque<\/strong> 568lb ft<br \/>\n<strong>Weight<\/strong> 2260kg<br \/>\n<strong>Power to weight<\/strong> 240bhp per tonne<br \/>\n<strong>Transmission<\/strong> Eight speed automatic, four-wheel drive<br \/>\n<strong>0-60mph<\/strong> 4.0sec<br \/>\n<strong>Top speed<\/strong> 198mph<br \/>\n<strong>Economy<\/strong> 22.6mpg<br \/>\n<strong>CO\u2082<\/strong> 284g\/km<br \/>\n<strong>Verdict<\/strong> Thoroughbred luxury<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":825911,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[118725],"tags":[129365],"issue_decade":[122153],"issue_year":[126583],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/824303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/824303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825921,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/824303\/revisions\/825921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824303"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=824303"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=824303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}