Even more arresting is the torque figure – 750lb ft from 2,050rpm – while the torque curve itself isn’t a curve at all so much as a mountain peak and plateau. Visual differences run to gloss-black bonnet vents, new front and rear bumpers with carbon fibre splitter and diffuser, a rifled exhaust tail-pipe, and a rear spoiler (though not on the convertible). It’s also the new fastest and most powerful Bentley ever, and will be limited to 710 units: coincidentally, this is its power output in PS (that’s 700bhp in Brexit Britain terminology). Well, no-one at Bentley would use a phrase as gauche as ‘run-out’ special, but an all-new Continental is due this autumn, so the return of the Supersports badge is a stout last huzzah and hurrah for the company’s imperious coupe.
