The Bentley Continental Flying Spur is a four-door

Vehicle door

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 variant of the Bentley Continental GT

Bentley Continental GT

-Flying Spur:The four door Continental Flying Spur saloon was first displayed at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. The Flying Spur utilizes most of the technical underpinnings of the Bentley Continental GT, and was introduced to European and North American markets in the summer of 2005...

 coupé. The Bentley Continental Flying Spur was introduced in 2005.

The Continental Flying Spur is equipped with a 5998 cc (6.0 litre

Litre

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) twin-turbo

Twin-turbo

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charged W12 engine

W12 engine

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. It produces a DIN

Deutsches Institut für Normung

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-rated motive

Motive power

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 power

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 output of 560 PS at 6,100 rpm

Revolutions per minute

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, and torque

Torque

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 of 650 newton metres (479 ft·lbf) at 1,600-6,100 rpm. Torsen

Torsen

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-based permanent four-wheel drive

Four-wheel drive

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 is standard. It will complete the standard sprint of 0–100 km/h (0–62.1 ) in 5.2 seconds, and can reach a top speed of 312 kilometres per hour (194 mph).

The Bentley shares its platform with the Volkswagen Phaeton

Volkswagen Phaeton

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, and its powertrain

Powertrain

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 components are related to those on the Audi A8

Audi A8

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 and S8

Audi S8

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. The car was designed by the same team who produced the Continental GT and Continental GTC.

The Continental Flying Spur is exclusively hand built at Bentley's only manufacturing plant

Bentley Crewe

Bentley Crewe serves as the headquarters, design and manufacturing centre of Bentley Motors Limited, located on the outskirts of Crewe, Cheshire, England.-History:...

 in Crewe

Crewe

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, England

England

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. 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

United States

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 and UK

United Kingdom

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 were built at Volkswagen

Volkswagen

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's Transparent Factory

Transparent Factory

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 in Dresden

Dresden

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, Germany

Germany

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. This arrangement ended in 2006, when all assembly work reverted to Crewe.

Continental Flying Spur Speed

For 2009, Bentley introduced a Continental Flying Spur Speed model. Similar to the Continental GT Speed, engine output has been increased to 610 PS 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 km/h (0–62.1 ) is now 4.8 seconds. It features enlarged disc brake

Disc brake

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s, and an upgraded Bosch

Robert Bosch GmbH

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 ESP 8.1 Electronic Stability Programme

Electronic stability control

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. 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 feet (91.4 m) skidpad.

External links

• Official Bentley Motors homepage
• Bentley Continental Flying Spur Technical Specifications
• BENTLEY Continental Flying Spur Speed - 2009 Test drive and review by Autoevolution.com