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Hey folks, I'm here today in Switzerland
testing out the all new fourth

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generation Bentley Continental GT.

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Now, it might not look incredibly
different from the car it replaces.

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Sure, you'll notice the headlights

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and the tail lights are a bit different,
but the big change is under the hood.

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Gone is the W12 motor that powered
the Speed for all these years.

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In its place, a 738 horsepower PHEV motor
with over 1000 Nm of torque.

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I have no idea. It's something.
It's a lot.

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That's enough to get this car from 0 to 60
in just 3.1 seconds, despite it weighing

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more than a moon, and it could go on to
a top speed of 208 miles an hour.

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But that's enough of me talking.
How about we get out on the road?

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Okay, folks, like I said,

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brand new Continental GT.

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And if you can already tell this GT Speed

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does not have the W12 motor that Bentley

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has been famous for,
for almost two decades at this point.

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Nope. It,

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sadly has been retired,

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which, you know, is a damn shame
if you ask me.

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But we live in a changing world
and things have to change, and that's

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why in its place is a four liter V8

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with a electric motor attached to it.

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That motor makes 190 ish horsepower,

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and the V8 makes about 600 horsepower
on its own twin turbo V8.

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It's the same one you'll find

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in a lot of other Volkswagen
Group products, but damn is it good.

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All together,
the car makes 771 horsepower.

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That's so much power

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that is so much power in a car
that is for grandfathers.

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And it's going to make you not really
miss the W12.

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Sure, that motor had a lot of character,
but so does this one.

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I mean, it is so efficient and good
at just pulling you out of these corners,

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these switchbacks here
in the Alps of Switzerland.

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And you can hear it.

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It sounds like

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I don't I you know, I don't really know
how Bentley was able to make

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a V8 engine sound like a fighter

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plane from World War Two,
but damn, if they weren't able to do it.

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It's really impressive
and it sounds just fabulous.

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Get on your side of the road, bro.

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Everything about this

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car is so fast
and you just put your foot down.

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I'm doing 35kph
second gear. Put your foot down.

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And there's 100 already.

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It's just mind boggling

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and, you know what’s crazy,
what's really wild to me.

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The speed isn't
even the most impressive part.

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No, the handling is,

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this car,
same architecture as the Panamera,

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and it really feels like it.

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This car is very heavy.

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I'll put the exact weight
in this general area.

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I don't want to get it wrong.

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But needless to say, it's,
She's a big girl,

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you know?

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And it just dances around corners

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like few other cars do.

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And the carbon ceramic brakes haul you in

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like, like you're hitting,
like you're running into something.

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Oh, God.

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Honestly, I know it's

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a gas motor with a PHEV element,

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but the closest thing this feels to me

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is like an electric car

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that just happens to have a really,
really nice fake V8 noise.

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The the eight speed PDK

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works so flawlessly
you barely feel the shifts.

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It's also the only non Porsche
that gets a PDK, so that's kind of neat.

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But all of it works together
to make such a nice package.

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That is really, really lovely for,
you know, going off

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switchbacks or going down
Swiss mountain roads like this.

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The really wild part, though,
because it's a PHEV,

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is that you can run it on full electric,
which I am going to do right now.

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Switch over to Bentley mode.

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And now we are in EV drive.

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I think.

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Yep, we are in EV mode.

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So now you can drive
through this little town

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on pure electric

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without disturbing the nice.

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Switzerland-ish Swiss people

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with your loud, raucous V8 motor

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and it gets, you know, a ton of EV range.

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I'm going to put that number here
because I don't want to screw it up.

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It gets a lot of it, though,
more than you're ever going to need.

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And I really do suggest that you plug it
in because you get a lot of power.

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This thing does regen breaking,
like few cars I've seen.

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Like it just can really, really
charge up the battery quick.

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And we've reached a tunnel.

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So we're going to switch it
back into sport, which turns the motor on.

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Let's hear this thing.

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Oh my God.

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I don't know if you could really hear that

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because there was a lot of wind noise,
but holy hell,

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that motor sounds like hellfire

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and it moves like hellfire.

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You know, let's just talk interior
real quick.

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It's typical Continental GT.

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Not too much is changed in here.

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Really nothing is changed in here.

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There are a few other trim options
you can get, like a darker metal finish,

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which are kind of nice.

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You know,
that's the sort of thing you're into.

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Not, you know,

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Bentley said something like 64%
of the parts of the fourth generation

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Conti GT are different
than the third generation.

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But if you take away
like the looks of like the headlights,

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the tail lights, which honestly,

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I don't think are as good looking,
I really I was always partial to the,

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you know, the four circle
headlights of the old Conti GTs

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, rather then this like dual,
you know, the two circles

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and the more oval tail lights.

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I mean, it's a all preference if you like
how it looks and then like how it looks.

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It doesn't, by no means does it look bad.

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It looks really good still.

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It's just not quite as much my vibe.

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They say it's a new generation, but
it feels a lot more like a heavy refresh.

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Obviously you got the new motor,
which is a big deal,

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but it's still really fabulous
to drive in here.

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Everything feels really nice and well
put together.

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This car has a crazy spec of

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blue, orange and walnut.

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Not sure whose decision that was,
but you know it,

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It's interesting, I guess.

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It's blue, orange and walnut, over,

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thank you.

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Let's see how fast we can go.

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We're going too fast.

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Blue, orange and walnut over green,

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which is preposterous.

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Not that you know,

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I don't know who's buying,
who's going to spec a car like this,

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but it's just kind of cool, I guess.

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You get the forbidden Toblerone,

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center screen that I like so much.

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It costs, like,
6,500 bucks or something like that.

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But damn
if it isn't a nice little party trick.

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And we reached a contraflow.

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So why don't we put it back into EV mode?

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Guys, I really like this car.

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You know it.

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It's not cheap by any means.

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Exact price of this one,
I don't have it yet.

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I will by the time this video comes out.

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So again, right there and even without

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looking at that number,
I can tell you it's a big one.

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I just drove a previous generation
Continental GTC

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that was specced pretty high up,
and that was about 370 grand.

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So I would not expect this
to be any cheaper.

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Let's just say that.

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And why should it be?

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This car’s competition,
you know, cost just as much,

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if not more.

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And really doesn't

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do what this Bentley does quite as well.

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I mean, there aren't many cars
that are this comfortable to just eat

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hundreds, if not thousands of miles in

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but also,

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you know, the flick of a switch
from the Bentley mode to the sport mode

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and it just really tightens up.

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The steering is just so wonderful.

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You know, it's vague for sure.

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You know, it's an electric steering box,
but it you know, it does the job.

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It's very direct, especially in a car
this big and this heavy and this powerful.

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I really can't fault it.

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I really, you know,
you get what you pay for.

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And, you know, as Ferris Bueller said, “if
you have the means,

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I do highly suggest picking one up.”

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Guys, thank you so much for watching.

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Bentley, thank you for flying me
to Switzerland to check out this car.

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I really enjoyed myself.

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I hope you guys did too
and I will see you next time. Bye!