Bentley is now pulling the covers off the new Continental GT Mulliner
Coupe, which will celebrate its public debut at the Salon Privé in the UK on
September 22. The new Bentley Continental GT Mulliner Coupe represents “the new
luxury pinnacle” of the range and as such it offers even more options to the
client that wants to create a unique Bentley to their individual specification.
On the outside, the new Continental GT
Mulliner gets a number of exclusive styling features, including the new
silver-black ‘Double Diamond’ front grille with matching front fender vents,
Satin Silver mirror caps with Mulliner Welcome Lamps mounted beneath them, as
well as illuminated Mulliner door sills. The exterior revisions also include a
set of 22-inch Mulliner wheels with self-leveling center badges.
The interior of the new Continental GT
Mulliner will offer customers a unique color split exclusively; a total of
eight three-color combinations will be proposed by Mulliner, featuring
Bentley’s palette of numerous hides and threads to create “a striking, yet
elegant contrast throughout the cabin”. As standard, all Conti GT Mulliner
models will come with the Mulliner Driving Specification, which adds ‘Diamond
in Diamond’ quilting pretty much on every surface, from the seats to the door
cards and rear quarter panels.
Bentley reckons that each car features
almost 400,000 stitches inside the cabin, as each diamond quilting requires 712
individual stitches. The embroidery process alone took 18 months to be
developed, with each stitch precisely aligned to the point of the center of the
diamond it creates.
The center console is trimmed with a new
diamond milled technical finish, accompanied by Grand Black walnut veneer with
chrome overlays. A unique Breitling clock is also mounted on the center of the
console. The brushed-metal finish of the Breitling clock is carried through the
digital instrument cluster, which features a unique design to the main gauges.
More personalization options are of course
available, with Bentley offering 88 colorized veneer finishes that can then be
matched to the interior or exterior of the vehicle. The new Bentley Continental
GT Mulliner can be fitted by either the 626 HP 6.0-liter W12 or the 542 HP
4.0-liter V8, with the carmaker accepting the first orders from October. The
first deliveries of the new Bentley Continental GT Mulliner will take place
early next year.