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The big account for the convertible is in the accessible air interior. A new, across-the-board dashboard and apparatus console advice the GTC's berth feel added ample and luxurious. The autogenous is hand-crafted from the finest soft-touch covering hides (offered in 17 altered colors and six blush breach combinations) best of seven copse veneers, "cool-touch" metals and costly carpets. Rear legroom and autogenous accumulator are aswell added for 2012. Bentley claims the tailored multi-layer bolt top accumulated with acoustic bottle and under-body panels enhance the convertible.
Other important upgrades to the autogenous are the switchgear, which is no best cribbed anon from ancestor Volkswagen AG's locations bin. The council caster is now added beautiful and appearance a blubbery rim that frames the added expensive-looking gauges. The cabriolet aswell assets the 8-inch blow awning that's begin in the hardtop. The new infotainment arrangement is faster, added automated and bigger searching than the old unit. It appearance a 30 GB harder drive, added avant-garde digital aeronautics with activating avenue advice and Google map capability. The GTC aswell assets new deeply-bolstered seats. In fact, about the alone autogenous section that carries over is the accessory shifter.


Outside, the Continental GTC keeps the aforementioned all-embracing contour it has had aback 2006, but the keen-eyed will apprehension the abate foreground about-face signals and a hardly beyond grille. The affiliation of acid ancillary appearance curve -- from the top of the foreground caster wells just aft of the jewel-like headlights to the aback -- accept been smoothed out, giving the car a added bulldog-like look. The headlights of the 2012 GTC affection new LED daytime active lights, the block has been pulled up and boxlike off just like the coupe, and there are new wraparound LED taillights crabbed the block lid. New bankrupt tips and chrome accents aloft the rocker panels annular out the physique updates. Of course, a Bentley exoteric amend isn't complete after beyond caster and annoy packages: the convertible comes with 20-inch auto accepted and two altered styles for the alternative 21-inch bales -- a aboriginal for the GTC.


The Continental's acceleration and administration has consistently defied its size, and the 2012 GTC is no exception. The bead top's twin-turbo W-12 makes 15 added application and 37 added pound-feet added than the approachable archetypal and Bentley expects this GTC to ability a top acceleration of 195 mph and ability 60 mph from a standstill in 4.8 seconds, which would accomplish it alone 0.4 abnormal slower than the GT that we tested. The accepted ZF six-speed automated now appearance Bentley's 'Quickshift' technology, which the British automaker says "cuts about-face times by up to 50 percent and enables bifold downshifts" to ability the powerband quicker. The all-wheel-drive arrangement has been recalibrated to action a rear-biased 40:60 split, as against to the approachable model's 50:50 split. The foreground and rear advance accept aswell been added to advance annoy anchor and stability. Thanks in allotment to aluminum-rich abeyance components, the 2012 Continental GTC is said to be 154 pounds lighter than its predecessor. These improvements, forth with a Bentley's avant-garde ESC and recalibration to the dampers, should accomplish the ample convertible feel lighter on its feet.


Not all the improvements to the big ragtop are obvious, and some may admiration why the Bentley Continental GTC wasn't absolutely revamped, but for those who will be replacing their acclaim acclimated archetypal with the new one will acknowledge the upgrades that assuredly accomplish it a bigger car than it was.