THE NEW BENTLEY SUPERSPORTS - THE RETURN OF A LEGEND, REBORN IN A LIGHTER, SHARPER AND WAY COOLER GUISE.
A full century after Bentley first stamped the Super Sports name onto something built to go faster, harder and further than anything else on the road, Crewe has revived the icon - and the result is the most driver-focused Continental GT ever created. This is the new Bentley Supersports, only the fourth of its kind in history, and easily the wildest. Rear-wheel drive, a two-seat cabin, sub-two-tonne weight, no hybrid assistance anywhere and a brand-new 483 kW / 800 Nm twin-turbo V8 snarling at its core - this thing is a gentleman’s sledgehammer built for people who think GT3 race cars are a little too polite. It’s a pure mechanical animal: power goes through an eight-speed double-clutch ’box straight to the rear wheels, backed by an electronically controlled LSD, torque vectoring by brake and a recalibrated chassis that turns the Continental GT into something far more alert, alive and unfiltered. Carbon ceramic brakes, Akrapovič titanium exhaust, 22-inch Manthey-forged lightweight wheels and optional Pirelli Trofeo RS tyres round out a spec sheet that reads like a greatest-hits playlist of track-ready hardware. Official numbers will come later, but right now Bentley says 0–100 km/h in 3.7 seconds and a top speed of around 310 km/h. Brutal… but with manners.
This is the most purposeful Continental GT ever, and the exterior makes no attempt to hide it. The Supersports wears Bentley’s biggest-ever front splitter, flanked by carbon fibre dive planes, deeper sills, fender blades and a race-bred rear diffuser. The fixed rear wing is straight out of endurance racing - all of it together generates more than 300 kg more downforce than a GT Speed. Even the roof plays along: the usual aluminium panel has been binned in favour of carbon fibre to cut mass and drop the centre of gravity.
Inside, Bentley has ripped out everything that doesn’t serve performance. The rear cabin is gone, replaced by a carbon fibre and leather shell. The seats are new, deeply bolstered racing-style units mounted lower than ever. Customers can spec monotone, duo-tone or tri-tone combinations across leather, Dinamica and carbon fibre, building an interior that feels more “private jet for two” than grand tourer. The Supersports wasn’t planned - it was born from an idea sneaked into an engineering meeting in September 2024: What if we built a rear-wheel-drive Continental GT under two tonnes? That idea became a mule in just six weeks, pounded around a test track, and immediately proved so good that Bentley greenlit the entire project. But it needed a codename. Enter Mildred Mary Petre - the fearless racing driver, pilot and record-breaker who, in 1929, drove a Bentley 4½ Litre solo for 24 hours around Montlhéry at an average of nearly 90 mph. A legend with a relentless “push further” attitude - exactly the energy Bentley wanted. So the team named the secret project after her: Project Mildred.
Forget hybridisation for this one - the Supersports is old-school in all the best ways. The reengineered 4.0-litre V8 gets a strengthened crankcase, uprated heads and bigger turbos, giving it the highest power density of any Bentley engine ever. The DCT has new clutches and an all-new shift strategy that snaps through gears with more intent than any GT before it. The titanium Akrapovič exhaust system is the loudest, most characterful V8 voice Bentley has ever signed off - no fake cabin enhancement, no trickery. Just raw, pulsing, cross-plane V8 thunder.
Bentley has removed nearly half a tonne from the Continental GT platform to create the Supersports. Rear seats? Gone. Rear sound insulation? Gone. Several driver aids? Gone - they’re unnecessary when the brief is “driver first.” Even the audio system is now front-cabin only. Lightweight wheels, composite panels and powertrain reductions pull mass below the 2,000 kg line, while recalibrated suspension, ESC and steering systems make the car more agile and more rewarding than any Continental before it. And for the cherry on top: only 500 units will be handcrafted at Crewe, each individually numbered. Buyers can even request their favourite number - and knowing the Bentley crowd, expect the bidding wars to be spicy.
Take a look at the YouTube video that shows off what has to be one of the coolest Bentleys to date, the all-new Supersports. This is one Bentley we'd love to get our mits on, even an hour will be enough time: The New Bentley Supersports: The Most Driver-focused Bentley Ever | Bentley Motors
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