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Bentley Brings Back the Carbon Fibre Styling Spec—Now More Advanced and More Exclusive

Bentley isn’t usually the brand you look to for subtlety, and its latest update to the Continental GT, GTC, and Flying Spur proves that Crewe still knows how to make a 5,500-pound grand tourer feel like a motorsport trophy on wheels. Enter the new Carbon Fibre Styling Specification, a fully reengineered aesthetic and aerodynamic package aimed at customers who want their six-figure cruiser served with a sizeable portion of track-inspired aggression.

And judging by Bentley’s own numbers—one in four previous-generation cars left the factory fitted with the Styling Specification—the appetite for carbon isn’t going anywhere.

A Mulliner-Level Makeover

This latest iteration expands availability dramatically. Previously limited to a narrower slice of Bentley’s portfolio, the carbon package is now open to every variant of the Continental GT, GTC, and Flying Spur, and even makes its way to the Bentayga lineup. More importantly, the Styling Specification has returned to Mulliner, Bentley’s bespoke division, where personalization borders on obsessive. Buyers can now commission carbon components that align with the handcrafted ethos of the brand’s highest tier.

The public got its first look at the refreshed kit on a Continental GT Speed in Orange Flame, shown at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed—because of course Bentley would debut a carbon-festooned grand tourer by sending it up the hill in front of several hundred thousand car obsessives.

Hand-Laid Carbon with Motorsport Intent

The package includes a front splitter, full-length side sills with electroformed Bentley badges, a more comprehensive rear diffuser, and mirror caps, all constructed from multiple layers of structural carbon weave. Bentley insists this is not a styling exercise grafted onto existing bodywork: every component has been developed from scratch alongside the fourth-generation models.

True to Mulliner form, each piece is mirror-matched across the centerline, just like the wood veneers inside the cabin. The side sill badges deserve special attention—each is a three-dimensional electroformed piece, with a faceted, jewelry-like finish created specifically to avoid lacquer bubbles and micro-imperfections. It’s a tiny detail, but one that showcases how Bentley can turn even a performance add-on into a craftsman’s showcase.

Looks Good, Works Hard

The carbon fibre hardware doesn’t just sharpen curbside presence; it actually contributes to performance. Bentley’s new Performance Hybrid powertrains put out a monstrous 782 PS and 1,000 Nm, enough to shove the Continental GT to 62 mph in 3.2 seconds. That kind of thrust needs aerodynamic stability, not just swagger.

Bentley says the components underwent over 100,000 kilometers of durability testing, plus intensive lab-based stress cycles. The new reinforced front splitter is now twice as thick as before—engineered as a functional aerodynamic tool rather than a cosmetic flourish.

Pair the carbon package with the titanium Akrapovič exhaust and the Blackline Specification, and suddenly Bentley’s gentlemanly grand tourers take on a darker, more focused demeanor. Not quite a race car, but certainly a statement that this new generation of Continental and Flying Spur isn’t all about quiet luxury.

For New Buyers—and the Already Converted

Uniquely, the Carbon Fibre Styling Specification is available not just on newly commissioned cars but also as a retrofit for existing fourth-generation models. That gives current owners a chance to bring their cars up to the latest visual and aerodynamic standard—a rare move for an ultra-luxury brand, and one that signals Bentley’s understanding of its audience: owners who want the newest specification, even if their car is already parked in the garage.

Bentley’s new carbon fibre suite doesn’t reinvent the Continental GT or Flying Spur, but it sharpens their personalities in all the right places. It’s more cohesive than the outgoing package, more widely available, and engineered with enough functional credibility to justify its existence.

If you want a grand tourer with the poise of a luxury yacht and the attitude of a Le Mans pit lane, this is Bentley giving you exactly that—and doing it with a level of craftsmanship no other brand can quite match.

Source: Bentley

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Bentley Turns Light Into Luxury: The Futuristic Craft Behind Mulliner’s Animated Welcome Lamps

For more than a century, Bentley has defined luxury with wood so polished you can see the future in it, leather so supple it could pass for a tailored suit, and metalwork fit for a fine Swiss chronometer. But now, the Crewe craftsmen have added a surprising new medium to their palette: light.

And not just any light — curated, animated, digitally sculpted light.

Originally developed for the ultra-exclusive Mulliner Batur, Bentley’s first-ever use of Digital Light Processing (DLP) in a road car is now making its way into the brand’s broader coachbuilt offerings. The result? Customers can design their own animated welcome projection — a personal light show that appears on the ground as they open the door. Think of it as the automotive equivalent of a signature handshake, crafted from photons.

Light as Luxury Material

Bentley calls the concept “digital craftsmanship,” and for once, the marketing speak undersells it. What the brand is doing here is redefining how technology and traditional coachbuilding can intersect.

Every projection features a two-part animation:

  • An intro sequence triggered when the door first swings open
  • A continuous loop that plays afterward

Bentley’s designers aren’t just sketching pretty patterns — they’re pulling motifs from the cabin and exterior and giving them motion. Embroidered feathers can flutter to life. Initials can sweep across the pavement in a handwritten flourish. Even bespoke themes can be crafted for special commissions.

Case in point: a recent Mulliner collection inspired by the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest. The headrest embroidery and dashboard’s musical cues became the backbone of an animation featuring warm central light surrounded by swirling musical notes — a bit of nighttime theatre every time you step inside.

Microscopic Mirrors, Massive Impact

If this all sounds like projector tech, that’s because it is — extremely advanced projector tech.

Bentley’s system uses three colored light sources that pass through five lenses and two prisms before striking a tiny 8 mm² Digital Micromirror Device (DMD™). This silicon chip contains 415,800 mirrors, each only 16 microns wide — roughly one-fifth the width of a human hair.

These mirrors can tilt thousands of times per second. When they’re “on,” they reflect colored light out toward the ground. When “off,” they aim light into a heat sink so the image stays razor-sharp. Each mirror is a pixel, and together they form animations detailed enough to match the rest of the car’s handcrafted identity.

If luxury used to rely on rare materials, Bentley argues the next frontier is mastering how those materials behave in motion.

The Future: Where Craft Meets Code

Bentley’s designers are already exploring how far this idea can go. What happens when lighting, interior design, and UI all merge into one cohesive artistic language? What if the emotional resonance customers expect from woodgrain or leather stitching could also come from curated moments of digital animation?

This isn’t about more screens or brighter LEDs; it’s about using technology to amplify the emotional signature of a Bentley. A new kind of luxury — less about physical mass, more about sensory experience.

And while animated welcome lamps might seem like a small flourish, they hint at something bigger: a future where the line between coachbuilding and coding gets beautifully blurred.

Bentley built its reputation on craftsmanship you can feel. Now it’s working on craftsmanship you can see — even before you step inside.

Source: Bentley

NEW CARS

2027 Bentley Supersports: The Return of the Beast

A century after the very first Bentley “Super Sports” broke the 100-mph barrier, Bentley has resurrected its most fearsome badge — and delivered the most driver-focused Continental ever to wear it. The new 2027 Bentley Supersports is a rare moment of rebellion from Crewe: rear-wheel drive, two seats only, weighing under two tonnes, and powered by a roaring twin-turbo V-8 with no hybrid help whatsoever. This isn’t the genteel grand tourer you remember. This is Bentley gone feral.

The Most Focused Continental in History

At the heart of the new Supersports is a thoroughly reworked 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8, now strengthened, boosted, and sharpened to deliver 666 PS (657 hp) and 800 Nm (590 lb-ft) exclusively to the rear wheels through an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission. Bentley claims a 0–62 mph time of 3.7 seconds and a top speed of around 192 mph, but the raw numbers are almost beside the point. What matters is engagement.

To that end, Bentley hasn’t just shuffled components — it has rewritten the Continental GT’s genetic code. This is the first rear-drive Continental GT in history (race cars aside), assisted by a newly tuned eLSD, wider rear track, and torque vectoring by brake. ESC modes now include everything from fully supportive to fully unhinged, with a “Dynamic” map allowing controllable, Bentley-polished slip angles.

Rear-wheel steering remains to keep the massive coupe agile, and the chassis receives entirely new calibrations for steering, suspension, and power delivery. The result? Bentley says the Supersports can corner 30 percent quicker than a GT Speed when fitted with the optional Pirelli Trofeo RS rubber, generating up to 1.3 g of lateral force.

More Downforce Than Any Bentley Road Car

If the Continental GT Speed is a velvet fist, the new Supersports is the brass knuckle. Nearly every exterior change serves function first: a new front bumper with the largest splitter ever fitted to a Bentley, stacked carbon-fiber dive planes, new side sills, “B-shaped” fender blades, a full carbon diffuser, and a fixed rear wing.

Combined, these aero additions produce 300 kg more downforce than a GT Speed, while maintaining balanced lift and shifting weight rearward at higher speeds. Carbon fiber trims more weight from the roof, mirrors, and engine cover, while the entire rear cabin — seats, insulation, trim — has been removed and replaced with a carbon-fiber tub. The result: the lightest Bentley in 85 years, dipping below the 2000-kg mark.

Standard brakes are immense 440-mm carbon-ceramic front discs with 10-piston calipers — the largest production car brakes on the planet.

A Cabin Built for Driving, Not Cruising

Open the door and you’ll immediately realize this isn’t a Continental that happens to be sportier — it’s a sports car with Bentley fit and finish. Two heavily bolstered sports seats sit lower in the chassis, wrapped in leather and Dinamica, with carbon-fiber shells peeking around their shoulders.

The rear seating area is gone, replaced by a sculpted carbon-fiber structure trimmed in leather. Carbon fiber veneers are standard, though buyers can spec brushed or engine-turned aluminum. A numbered badge on the center console reminds you — and your passenger — that only 500 examples will exist.

Project Mildred: Bentley’s Secret Skunkworks

Internally, the Supersports began life as Project Mildred, named for Mildred Mary Petre — a record-setting racer and pilot who drove a 4½ Litre Bentley for 24 hours at Montlhéry in 1929. The project started quietly in late 2024 as a back-channel experiment to see what a lightweight, rear-drive Continental could feel like.

One track mule later, the results were convincing enough for Bentley’s new CEO, Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser, to green-light the full program. Walliser calls the Supersports “a return to Bentley making more extreme cars” — and given the timing, it becomes the first full vehicle developed under his leadership.

A Name With a Violent Pedigree

The Supersports lineage reads like Bentley’s greatest hits:

  • 1925 Super Sports: Short-wheelbase 3-Litre, the first Bentley to crack 100 mph; only 18 built.
  • 2009 Supersports: Return of the badge; 204 mph; first two-seat Continental.
  • 2017 Supersports: 710-hp W12 monster; then the most powerful Bentley ever.

The new model shifts focus from outright top speed to driver involvement — a philosophical reboot for Bentley performance.

Customization: From Nightfall to Daybreak

Mulliner will indulge the usual Bentley buyer fantasies:

  • 22 hide colors, 11 secondary hides, 9 accents
  • A unique tri-tone interior option
  • 24 standard paint colors plus bespoke Mulliner finishes
  • Exterior themes with striping, contrasting number graphics, and carbon-fiber accents

Launch cars come in two themes:

  • Nightfall, an Anthracite gloss with Camel striping and Beluga/Camel interior
  • Daybreak, Jetstream Matte with Arctica/Portofino accents and a Damson/Light Blue/Pillar Box Red cabin

Price and Availability

Bentley hasn’t announced pricing yet, but with only 500 units and a list of standard equipment that reads like a motorsport catalog — Akrapovič titanium exhaust, Manthey Racing forged 22s, carbon-ceramic brakes — expect a number well into the six-figure stratosphere. Order books open in March 2026, production starts in late 2026, and deliveries begin early 2027. Markets include the UK, Europe, U.S., Canada, Australia, the Gulf, and select Asian regions.

Source: Bentley