{"id":33410,"date":"2011-02-01T23:33:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=33410"},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:00:34","slug":"new-details-on-bentley-4-0-liter-v8-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2011\/02\/01\/new-details-on-bentley-4-0-liter-v8-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details on Bentley 4.0 liter V8 Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bentley_w12_engine.jpg\" alt=\"Bentley Working on V8 Engine with Audi\" title=\"Bentley Working on V8 Engine with Audi\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bentley_w12_engine.jpg 480w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bentley_w12_engine-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well placed Bentley sources have reported to British magazine Autocar.co.uk, that the new 4.0 liter direct-injection V8 powerplant will be made available to customers as either a 415bhp, single turbocharged version or as a more powerful twin-turbocharged 555bhp variant. The engine will be used for the first time in the new Continental GT. <\/p>\n<p>They also revealed that all of the \u00a3 200,000 plus Mulsanne production for 2011 is already accounted for. The luxury saloon uses a 6.75-liter twin-turbo V8, which currently produces 505bhp and 752lb-ft of torque.<\/p>\n<p>Expect more information on the new V8 engine at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/carshows\/geneva-auto-salon-2011\/\">Geneva Motor Show<\/a> starting the 1st of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well placed Bentley sources have reported to British magazine Autocar.co.uk, that the new 4.0 liter direct-injection V8 powerplant will be made available to customers as either a 415bhp, single turbocharged version or as a more powerful twin-turbocharged 555bhp variant. The engine will be used for the first time in the new Continental GT. They also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[71,13204,10,1203,13205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}