This is what a Bentley Continental GT looks like after an aggressive course of Ozempic. Somehow,
the burly grand tourer has lost half a tonne. That’s the same as a classic Fiat 500, six average adults or one thoroughbred racehorse, if you’re looking for a reference point. What is left is the new Supersports, the lightest car Bentley has built in the best part of a century.
No hybrid system, no rear seats and, for the first time on a road-going Continental, no four-wheel
drive. What remains is a burbling 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 producing 657bhp, a carbon roof, an empty carbon fibre shelf where the back seats once sat, and a healthy dose of wings and spoilers scattered on the bodywork.
Just 500 will be built, which is less like a production run and more like a guest list. All have been sold, despite prices starting at £342,900, but this was never a car designed to sell in volumes. For Bentley, the Supersports represents something far more important: a very deliberate trip into uncharted territory.
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