2004 Bentley Continental GT Front Side Studio Wallpaper

The styling story of the Continental GT dates back to August 1999 when newly appointed head of design, Dirk van Braeckel was briefed to prepare a concept for an all new Bentley coupé: one that would use 80 years of Bentley design as its inspiration, yet look only to the future in its shape. It took just four months - until just before Christmas - when van Braeckel submitted his preferred design to the board of Bentley Motors. It was approved on the spot. 'I'm still staggered it took four months,' says van Braeckel. 'When you design a car there's always a story to tell and this one involved gathering the right team of designers, all of whom understood what we were trying to create.

It's a very emotional product and that's the way we approached it. It was a magical process.' The key to honouring Bentley's design past without simultaneously creating an inappropriately 'retro' car, was to take the design philosophy that inspired cars such as the Bentley Speed Six of 1928 and the 1952 R-type Continental and use it in an entirely contemporary context. 'What you are looking for,' says van Braeckel, 'are the things that gave those cars such presence and a stance that shouted 'Bentley' at anyone who looked at them. It translated perfectly from the pre to the post-war era and so it does from there to the present day. Understand that and you can forget about the past.'

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