2027 Bentley Continental GT Supersports priced

The new Bentley Continental GT Supersports will cost $794,000 plus on-road costs in Australia, with the first examples scheduled to be built late this year. Limited to just 500 units globally, “a handful” of orders have been made by Australians with many customers engaging in the Mulliner customisation process to personalise their cars.

It’s a significant car for the brand, being only the fourth Supersports model in history, but the one that takes the concept established by the original 1925 Super Sports – less weight, more power, limited build – to the greatest extreme.

With the regular Continental GT range now solely a plug-in hybrid, the Supersports forgoes electrification with the most powerful version of the twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 (490kW/800Nm) meaning it lacks the raw numbers of the Speed and Mulliner variants.

More significantly, drive is sent only to the rear wheels for the first time in a Continental GT. Forgoing the hybrid system, deleting all-wheel drive and the greater use of carbon fibre, specifically in the interior and roof, keeps the kerb weight under 2000kg – making it the lightest Bentley in 85 years.

Rounding out the package are enormous carbon-ceramic brakes – 440mm discs with 10-piston calipers and 410mm discs with four-piston calipers at the front and rear respectively – more aero and the option of Pirelli P-Zero Trofeo RS track tyres as an option.

It’s no coincidence Bentley’s most driver-focused model in decades is the first to be developed start-to-finish under the watch of latest CEO Frank-Steffen Walliser, who spent nearly three decades at Porsche as the head of the 918 Spyder project, motorsport program boss and eventually oversaw all product development.

It’s likely to be the first of a number of limited-run Bentleys, with the brand being hugely important to the profitability of the Audi Group.

The 10,131 cars it delivered in 2025 represented just 0.6 per cent of the group total (along with Audi and Lamborghini) but accounted for 6.4 per cent of the operating profit.

Increasing margin is a key focus for most premium automotive brands and offering greater personalisation is the perfect way to not only cater to client wishes but increase the transaction price.

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