Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed: A Grand Tourer That Begs To Be Daily Driven
Let’s skip to the punchline: you should drive more, and you should drive a Bentley Continental GT Speed. This can be substantiated in a panoply of ways, but if the appearance and provenance of a Bentley grand touring coupe isn’t enough on its own, I’m not sure you can be helped. I’m sorry, deeply.
Let the author digress for a moment and lecture you, our faithful reader, SHARP bastard that you no doubt are. Yours truly bought a 2024 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet in August of 2024 and I now have 20,000 kilometres on it because I drive it a lot. Fly to Montreal? No, thank you. I drive. Detroit meeting? Drive. 400 kilometres round trip for a kid’s birthday party? No problem. It’s wonderful, it’s what it was designed for, and I love it. If I had more money, I’d do it in a Continental GT Speed instead, and so should you.
Get this car and drive it from Toronto to New York City, Montreal, Chicago, wherever. Drive it to Florida and Texas and California. Take the long road and just enjoy the absolute gluttony of it. Take your time, enjoy this car, enjoy the journey and all that it affords you because there’s no better way to travel.
And so, the machine. It’s quite different from its predecessors. It’s truly modern. It’s a hybrid. Breathe, it’s not a Prius. In fact, it has 771 hp from a twin-turbocharged V8 and an electric motor somewhere in there. You can drive it EV only, which is quite nice, and all the way up to 140 km/h and 75 percent throttle. Though it’s not terribly far, but it’s a commuter-friendly 65 kilometres or so.
Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed
Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed
Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed
Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed
Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed
Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed
Bentley 2025 Continental GT Speed
But you don’t care about that. What you want to know is that 100 km/h comes up in under three seconds, it’ll do well over 300 km/h, and it’ll look damn good in the process. And while you can do whatever you like with the spec, please, for the love of God, get someone with taste — like your tailor or your girlfriend — to help with the interior and exterior colour selection.
We might as well address the fact there’s no longer a 12-cylinder engine option. Sad? Yes. Missed? No, not once you dip into the power that’s on tap here. But beyond pure thrust, there is the added benefit of weight and weight distribution. Not to bore you with geeky details, but the more compact and better distributed drivetrain results in a Continental GT that rides and handles like never before. Truly supple but agile, this is the car to traverse the Alps in, or the 400 to Muskoka. You can afford the tickets.
Supremely crafted and comfortable, the 2025 Continental GT Speed is a grand tourer that begs to be used as a daily driver and a continent-crushing conveyance.
