Bentley is to reveal a new Flying Spur on September 10 and it’ll be the most powerful saloon car in the firm’s 105-year history.
Describing it as a “four-door supercar” Bentley has confirmed that the Flying Spur will receive the same 771bhp Ultra Performance Hybrid powertrain as the new Continental GT Speed.
Replacing the now-departed W12 is a four-liter turbo V8 that delivers 591bhp and joins forces with an electric motor to provide Bentley’s biggest punch ever. There’s also a combined 737lb-ft of torque when ICE and electricity work together. In the Continental GT that makes for a 0-62mph sprint of 3.3 seconds and a vMax of 208mph. In the bigger, heavier Flying Spur you can expect to loose a few tenths, but it should still top out beyond 200mph.
As it’s a plug-in hybrid with a 29.5 kWh battery pack the Flying Spur will be able to travel over 45 miles on electric alone, while carbon dioxide emissions are below 40 g/km.
Bentley is keeping mum about the rest of the car’s specification, but we’d be very surprised if it didn’t also benefit from the ZF dual-valve damping, 48-volt anti-roll system, torque vectoring, e-diff and four-wheel steering that have made the Continental GT quite alarmingly agile.
“Its certainly entertaining—all the way to the lockstops if you turn everything off,” concluded Hagerty’s Henry Catchpole.
Bentley will drop a video next week showcasing “the car’s newly-expanded dynamic capabilities—at the hands of racing stars old and new.” Should be worth a watch.
