# @bentleymotors on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DObbTJujTEA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64250156-bentleymotors-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-10T16:32:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bentley Motors (@BentleyMotors) — https://gondola.cc/BentleyMotors

## Caption

When you’ve been building amazing cars for over a century, it can be hard to choose a favourite. Allow us to suggest a candidate: the first-generation Continental Supersports Convertible. 

The Continental GT had already taken the world by storm, launching in 2003. It was a grand tourer in the truest sense of the word, exquisitely crafted for long, luxurious road trips. The Supersports was not that. 

It actually began life as a ‘skunkworks’ project, started by a handful of young Bentley engineers. What would happen, they wondered, if they stripped the iconic GT back to its bare bones – then rebuilt it as a two-seat racetrack weapon?

Management soon found out about the project – and they loved it. Instantly, the project went from skunkworks to serious proposition.

 In February 2009, a production model was revealed by Jay Leno at the Geneva Motor Show. The convertible swiftly followed; also with a ferocious set of specs: Power of more than 620 bhp, and acceleration of 0-60mph in 4.0 seconds. It was 250kg lighter than any other Continental, it was the most powerful Bentley convertible ever built and just to bring it to a stop it needed the largest carbon ceramic brakes ever fitted to a production car. A legend was born.

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Vehicle shown is no longer in production.

#bentley #supersports #bentleystories

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