Special Feature
We featured three of the greatest cars on the planet in the last edition — the Ferrari 458 Italia, McLaren MP4-12C and the Lamborghini LP560-4 Spyder, all selected as proper hardcore driving cars for those who like to live life on the ragged edge and make a lot of noise whilst doing it! The club also offers another type of car for its members. These are not for screaming down the autobahn, but rather for turning up in at Brocket Hall for a round of golf, or to Royal Ascot. These are the cars for those people in life who ‘have made it’, who are no longer out clubbing until all hours and getting in just in time for the market to open somewhere on planet earth! They are for those who have moved out of the bachelor flat in Canary Wharf and now (yawn!) it’s time to grow up. Welcome to the Gentleman’s Express!
Bentley Continental Supersports The king of this category surely has to be the Bentley. The marque has an unsurpassed heritage as the most elegant of speed machines, but this latest generation is perhaps a little more hooligan than the genteel models of old. This car does, however, retain the style and class it has always been renowned for: it still has plush carpets and acres of the best cow skin on the planet, and under the bonnet it also has an almighty 6ltr W12 engine; for those that don’t know, a W12 is basically two V6‘s bolted together! It produces over 620 bhp and has a top speed in excess of 200 mph. Even more impressive, considering the car weighs nearly 2.5 tonnes, this supercar will achieve 0-62mph in less than 4 seconds.
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Thankfully, because of the ceramic disc brakes (the largest and most powerful ever fitted to a production car), it can also stop! The Continental Supersports also has power by the bucket load, but, more importantly, it also has class and presence. Attention to detail is astonishing and it must be said that if you are going to be stuck in traffic, then sitting in the most comfortable ‘arm chair’ that is the Bentley seat, listening to an expensive music system and being massaged as you go is not a bad way of travelling — if only you were permitted to enjoy a large G&T as you go, then this car really would offer everything!