The actors can break records too. Idris Elba at the wheel of a Bentley Continental GT Speed.
by AllAutoExperts | 8 May, 2015
Approximately 90 years ago, a gentleman named Sir Malcolm Campbell managed to break a historical record, reaching the maximum speed of 174.8 miles per hour in a specially prepared car, called Napier-Campbell Blue Bird.
Behold that the old record of the nearly nine decades was recently hit by an actor named Idris Elba, which is not a professional driver. Well, the success is due to the British, who created the fastest Bentley range series coupe, the Continental GT Speed model. At the wheel of this luxury sportscar, Idris managed to rewrite the history.
And if we consider that Bentley Continental GT Speed has a huge 12-cylinder engine arranged in four blocks W, with a total volume of 6.0 liters, capable of delivering to the wheels 625 horsepower and 820 Nm of torque, through an all-wheel-drive system, then it is not surprising that the test has been successful. The maximum speed reached was 180,361 mph, which is slightly over 290 km / h.
