Wheelsandmore Bentley Continental Ultrasports 702: Clunky name, sinister car
05-04-10, 07:36 PM
#1
Wheelsandmore Bentley Continental Ultrasports 702: Clunky name, sinister car
Wheelsandmore Bentley Continental Ultrasports 702: Clunky name, sinister car
Five-hundred-fifty horsepower is an awful lot of muscle. But when it's being produced by six liters of displacement, 12 cylinders and two turbochargers, you have to figure even more is possible. Bentley themselves knew this to be true, so they squeezed an extra 50 or so out of the Continental's enormous engine for the Speed version. But there was still more to be extracted, so they developed the Supersports model with over 620 horsepower.
Determined that there's still more to coax out of those colossal specs, German tuning house Wheelsandmore has just released its own tuning package for the Supersports that brings output up to 702 horsepower, with a commensurate bump to 650 lb-ft of torque (up from the standard 480, the Speed's 550 and the Supersports' 590) to create the Continental Ultrasports 702.
All they had to do to get the bonus 80 horses was tweak the ECU and fit a new exhaust. But true to their name, Wheelsandmore didn't stop there, fitting a set of 21-inch, 3-piece modular rims on Dunlop Sport Maxx tires, and an electronically adjustable suspension that drops the ride height to less than 8 inches off the ground at speed. Check it out in the high-res image gallery below.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/04/w...2-clunky-name/
05-05-10, 04:48 PM
#10
Lexus Fanatic
Interesting.....that red stripe (circle) is on the wheel, not the tire itself. For a second, I thought it looked like the old red-stripe tires found on late-60's American musclecars. Still, a sharp-looking design. 
05-05-10, 04:59 PM
#11
Lexus Fanatic
Note/fyi: the red stripe (circle) on the wheel itself is very common today on many aftermarket wheels. Does look good here.
05-05-10, 05:11 PM
#12
Lexus Champion
I remember the red stripes on tires well. Uniroyal Tiger Paws. Some Pontiac GTO's had them. Other performance cars may have too.
05-05-10, 05:12 PM
#13
Lexus Champion
I remember the red stripes on tires. Uniroyal Tiger Paws. Some Pontiac GTO's had them. Other performance cars may have too.
05-05-10, 05:56 PM
#14
Lexus Fanatic
Another example was U.S. Royal which began supplying tires with DUAL red stripes to Ford in August of 1964 for use on Mustangs.
05-05-10, 06:04 PM
#15
Lexus Champion
When competitors started offering tires with red stripes Uniroyal came out with an ad campaign that said "Red stripes alone do not a Tiger Paw make". It was clever at the time.
You are corrrect, it was U.S. Royal at that time. Gotta go take my nap now.
You are corrrect, it was U.S. Royal at that time. Gotta go take my nap now.