Bentley,the Super luxury car maker launched its Continental GT sedan in India with a price tag of Rs.1.9 crores on Thursday.
Chris Buxton,Bentley Regional Director informed,“India is aggressively growing in the luxury automobile space. We understand the growing needs of the market and hence we bring the new Continental GT to India. India being a key market for Bentley, we would see more key model launches in the coming two years”.He also added,“We hope to achieve a sales of 100 units here from our entire range by next year. The Indian super luxury car market is estimated to be around 600-700 units this year and it is growing at around 30 per cent every year. Our sales in India are growing at around 45 per cent every year”.
Continental GT features two-door, four-seat coupe with touch-screen controls.The speciality in this car is its new six-speed quick shift transmission which reduces the gear change up to 50 percent.It holds a 12-cylinder engine which delivers about 575 PS power.Within 4.6 seconds,it achieves 60 miles an hour reaching a top speed of 318 kmph.It comes with an additional qualities of 567bhp and 71.3kgm of torque which is not available in its previous model.