Booms Blog: Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed 2009

Monday, October 17, 2011

Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed 2009

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The Continental Flying Spur is equipped with a 5,998 cubic centimetres (366.0 cu in) (6.0 litre) twin-turbocharged W12 engine. It produces a DIN-rated motive power output of 560 metric horsepower (412 kW; 552 bhp) at 6,100 rpm, and torque of 650 newton metres (479 ft·lbf) at 1,600-6,100 rpm. Torsen-based permanent four-wheel drive is standard. It will complete the standard sprint of 0–100 kilometres per hour (0–62.1 mph) in 5.2 seconds, and can reach a top speed of 312 kilometres per hour (194 mph).

2009 Bentley Continental

BENTLEY Continental Flying
The Bentley shares its platform with the Volkswagen Phaeton, and it's powertrain components are related to those on the Audi A8 and S8. The car was designed by the same team who produced the Continental GT and Continental GTC.

2009 Bentley Continental

The Continental Flying Spur is exclusively hand built at Bentley's only manufacturing plant in Crewe, England. Previously, due to a lack of capacity at the Crewe factory upon the car's introduction, some Flying Spurs destined for markets other than the USA and UK were built at Volkswagen's Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany. This arrangement ended in 2006, when all assembly work reverted to Crewe.

BENTLEY CONTINENTAL FLYING

For 2009, Bentley introduced a Continental Flying Spur Speed model. Similar to the Continental GT Speed, engine output has been increased to 610 metric horsepower (449 kW; 602 bhp) at 6,000 rpm and 750 newton metres (553 ft·lbf) at 1,700-5,600 rpm - with a top speed of 322 kilometres per hour (200 mph) (up from 194 mph), making it the world's fastest four-door saloon. Acceleration time from 0–100 kilometres per hour (0–62.1 mph) is now 4.8 seconds. It features enlarged disc brakes, and an upgraded Bosch ESP 8.1 Electronic Stability Programme. With the revised Carbon Ceramic brakes Bentley claims that the flying spur speed will stop from 100 km/h (62 mph) in 33 meters (108.3 ft). Bentley also claims that with its revised ESP system and suspension the Continental Flying Spur Speed is capable of handling over 0.95 g-forces of lateral acceleration on a 300-foot (91 m) skidpad.