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You may remember we reported back in February that Juha Kankkunen had broken the ice speed record driving a modified Continental Supersports. This is how Bentley are celebrating: with 100 ridiculously fast road-going ISR (for Ice Speed Record) editions.
It’s called the Mulliner, and it’s the most powerful Bentley ever built. And, as Bentley would have it, somewhat understating the case: “it’s the most radically styled Bentley convertible ever”.
Good stuff first.
It’s got Bentley’s FlexFuel 6-litre, twin turbo W12 engine, which runs on either petrol, E85 bio-ethanol (means less emissions) or any mixture of the two. It produces 631 bhp, which gets it to 60mph in 3.8 seconds and 100mph in 9.5. Considering it weighs 2850kg – roughly the same as a cathedral – that’s absolutely staggering performance.
Inside, it’s been plastered with diamond-quilted Alcantara on the door cards and rear passenger side panels. There’s also special carbon fibre trim with a racey red weave framing the other niceties you’d expect in a Bentley, including an eight-inch infotainment screen.
Now the bad.
Those stickers. We could live with red diamond-cut 20-inch wheels and silly accenty bits around the air intake scoops, but those graphics are irredeemably naff. The GT3 RS just about gets away with it, but a Bentley?
Still, the non-Mulliner Continental Supersports ISR, launched at the Geneva motor show back in March, is just as fast and it doesn’t have the stickers. It’s got the same colour options - Beluga, Quartzite and Arctica White – and you get all-black wheels instead of the red ones. You don’t even have to pay extra - both versions cost a paltry £189,300.
Which would you rather have?
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What do you think?
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Michael16 commented on this article
at 10:28 am on 27 April 2011
First comment!!! Definitely the Mulliner for me. Same price and more power? Why not?
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Camsta commented on this article
at 10:32 am on 27 April 2011
Bentley really needs to lay off the 'Ice Speed Record'... Imagine saying to your girlfriend that it's fastest car on ice, but then she'll ask, "what about on road?" Then you're stumped. Besides, for that money there's so much better competition ie. Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz etc. All better than this... Getting the Continental GT would be a smarter thing to do.
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Camsta commented on this article
at 10:38 am on 27 April 2011
I also doubt the 631bhp is a good thing. Remember Jeremy's topic, raging on about too much horsepower in a car, that can't use the power properly, is a bad thing. Like the Ferrari 599 GTO. So, 0-60mph? Good. Top speed? Good. Cornering? You'll crash into a pole, tree, and everything in-between.
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dka799 commented on this article
at 11:03 am on 27 April 2011
wow! wow!.... Bentley with red Wheels!!! not good... it't s not an GT3 RS above all it must be a comfortable car ... of the hippopotamus, a leopard can not do as not cool .... ancestral roots or those (not sports) .... but for the money, I agree ... that you can buy Ferrari, Mercedes .... I would prefer Aston ti that one
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MeLoveStig commented on this article
at 12:23 pm on 27 April 2011
At a party:" ooh my Bentley has red wheels, stickers, carbon fibre and gets to 60 in 3.8 seconds." Arnage owner:" are you absolutely sure its not a Porsche?"
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