I always thought that the figure of John Steed must have been slightly out of scale on my Corgi Toys ‘Avengers’ red Bentley. The real thing, though an imposing car, is a bit smaller than you’d expect. Lined up on the start-finish straight at the Yas Marina circuit it looks somewhat like the old toy-box model, apart from the colour. Referred to, by Ettore Bugatti, whose own team of lightweight racers vied for supremacy at Le Mans 24 Hour …
Every successful car brand out there has at least one model that is synonymous with the brand and a big reason behind its success. That model for Bentley is the Continental GT. There are those who even think that Bentley would not have survived for as long as it has; had it not been for the Continental GT’s success. A cool thing about this model’s latest iteration is that despite Bentley being a part of the Volkswagen group, it retains …