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Bentley Continental GT Receives Three Awards In Three Major Markets, Including “Car Of The Year”, “Best Car”
Award winning grand tourer Bentley Continental GT Speed is Robb Report’s 2022 Car of the Year in the USA.
Continental GT V8 wins Best High-End Coupé at WhatCar? Car of the Year Awards in the UK.
Auto Motor und Sport ‘Best Cars’ Award in Europe completes hat-trick.
85,000 individual examples of the Continental GT have been produced since 2004.
Bentley Motors recently announced a new record year with total sales of 14,659 in 2021, with the Continental GT accounting for an almost 10 per cent of the increase over the previous year.
Now, the Bentley Continental GT grand tourer is starting the year 2022 after receiving three significant awards in three major markets., including “Car of the Year” and “Best Car”.
First is the “Car of the Year”, which Robb Report awarded to Continental GT for the third time since the introduction of the luxury car in the USA in 2004.
The Bentley Continental GT Speed topped ten other vehicles to win Car of the Year, with Robb Report judges praising the GT Speed on its high level of performance and luxury, claiming it as “a quantum leap from the original”.
Robb Report judges identified that : “The four-wheel steering is what made all the difference in the world,” and “This car sparks joy at every turn and every press of the gas pedal.”
In the United Kingdom, the Continental GT V8 was praised by WhatCar?, which bestowed the grand tourer with the Best High-End Coupé at the Car of the Year Awards 2022.
Summarised by What Car? :
“The Continental GT’s combination of pace, pampering and presence simply can’t be matched. Could there be a more decadent way to get around – we seriously doubt it.”
In Germany, the Continental GT was crowned with the luxury class category in Auto Motor und Sport’s long standing ‘Best Cars’ awards.
Over 100,000 readers voted over 12 different categories and across a total of 386 models to decide the final outcome.
The third generation Continental GT represents the pinnacle of Bentley’s award-winning two-door design and engineering achievements.
There are currently a total of 56 billion ways in which a customer can specify a Continental GT. Beyond that, through the services of Bentley Mulliner – Bentley’s in-house bespoke division – the only limitation is the imagination of the customer.
According to Bentley, owning a Continental GT guarantees both individuality and exclusivity. Over 85,000 individual examples of the Continental GT have been produced since 2004.
