
The brand new Bentley Bentayga Pace has been unwrapped because the model’s quickest SUV but, beating its predecessor to 62mph by half a second and happening to 193mph.
It swaps the earlier Bentayga Pace’s 6.0-litre W12, now retired, for a twinturbocharged 4.0-litre V8 that places out 641bhp and 627lb ft – a achieve of 15bhp and a lack of solely 37lb ft.
The smaller powerplant additionally performs a big function in slicing the Pace’s kerb weight by 42kg to 2466kg.
Helped alongside by a brand new launch management perform, the super-SUV is now able to finishing the 0-62mph sprint in 3.4sec, beating the three.9sec and 4.5sec dash occasions of the outdated Pace and the V8-engined S.
The additional energy additionally boosts the Bentayga’s high pace by 3mph.
Along with its enhanced tempo, the Pace will get reworked drive modes, together with a Sport mode that will increase the dampers’ stiffness by 15% and slackens off the stability management to “allow exhilarating drift angles”.
In the meantime, rear-wheel steering aids manoeuvrability at decrease speeds and boosts stability when urgent on.
A sports activities exhaust system is fitted as normal, however there may be an elective Akrapovic-supplied titanium system with 4 tailpipes, stated to unleash the “drama and efficiency” of the brand new powerplant.
The brand new super-Bentayga is differentiated visually from different variants by the Pace badges on its fl anks, in addition to a selection of bespoke 22in or 23in wheel designs.
The bigger of these two is obtainable as an elective further with the addition of carbon-ceramic discs.