Bentley's new 700 hp continental supersports is its fastest ever

The first cars will arrive in showrooms in May 2017

Bentley has announced the fastest, most powerful production Bentley ever: the 2017 Continental Supersports.

This is the third iteration of the Supersports model that Bentley first produced in the 1920s and reintroduced in 2009. Everything on this latest model has been lightened, tightened, and sculpted. The new car looks potent, fresh, and agile.

The $293,300 Continental Supersports four-seat coupe comes with a six-litre, twin-turbocharged W12 engine that gets 700 brake horsepower and 750 pound-feet of torque, up 79bhp and 160 pound-feet over the 2009 version. It has Bentley’s eight-speed automatic paddle-shifting all-wheel drive. It’ll hit 60 miles per hour in 3.4 seconds,