Travis Pastrana Drifting the 2027 Bentley Supersports is Pure Joy
This is probably the closest most of us will get to the already-sold-out, 657-horsepower Supersports. So enjoy it.
If you're like a good chunk of the US and Canada, you've spent much of the last two days digging out from a monster snow storm. So take a three-minute-twenty-two second break and watch Supersports: FULL SEND. We promise you'll feel better after.
The third Continental Supersports from the crew at Crewe is a rowdier sort. It's ditching the plug-in hybrid powertrain and along with it, drive to the front axle. Power is down but purer, and the curb weight is cut even more dramatically. It sounds like a recipe for getting sideways, so Bentley brought in Travis Pastrana to take a tour of the company HQ and boy does he rip.
This particular Supersports isn't quite the same as the production models the lucky 500 who've already bought it will get. There are tweaks to the software to allow simultaneous throttle and brake inputs, and the addition of an impossible-to-miss hydraulic handbrake. The latter comes emblazoned with the name "Mildred" in honor of Mildred Mary Petre, one of the "Bentley Girls" of the 1920s responsible for numerous records. "Mildred" was also the codename for the '27 Supersports project.
The video shows off rapid-fire shots of the Supersports getting gratuitous levels of sideways, with various models from Bentley past, present, and future peppered in. It starts in a room with no less than the 2003 Le Mans-winning Speed 8 and the underrated Hunaudières concept of 1999, which featured a variation of the W16 engine that would eventually find its way into the Bugatti Veyron.
You'll also spy the Bentayga and Conti that ran Pikes Peak, a whole bunch of pre-war models (including the original 1925 3 Litre Supersports), the recent EXP 15 concept, and even Bentley's upcoming electric SUV—the latter camouflaged and under a sheet, of course.
Oh yeah, don't forget the final production Brooklands coupe, bonfiring "the last millimeters of rubber from its to-be-replaced rear tires" near the end of the video. Glorious.
The 2027 Bentley Continental Supersports will go into production late this year, though every one of its 500-strong production count is already spoken for. At least we know what it's capable of in the right hands.
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Kyle began his automotive obsession before he even started school, courtesy of a remote control Porsche and various LEGO sets. He later studied advertising and graphic design at Humber College, which led him to writing about cars (both real and digital). He is now a proud member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), where he was the Journalist of the Year runner-up for 2021.
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