A 12-Cylinder Celebratory Symphony for Goodwood Festival of Speed

Bentley will celebrate twenty years of its mighty W12 engine at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, alongside a showcase of bespoke and coachbuilt Bentleys by Mulliner. The new Speed Six Continuation Series will make its global debut at the internationally famous event, while the Batur will be making its dynamic UK debut.

July 6,2023
The 6.0-litre twin-turbo W12 engine has powered Bentley to record success for the last 20 years. Powerful, reliable, refined, compact and extremely efficient for an engine of its class, the W12 has been the performance backbone of the brand since the launch of the Continental GT in 2003. Now, however, as Bentley continues on its Beyond100 journey to full electrification, the W12 is entering the final phase of production, with the last engine due to be built in April 2024.
Bentley is celebrating this remarkable engine – designed, engineered, developed and built by hand in Crewe – with an astonishing array of cars taking to the famous Goodwood Hillclimb. The most powerful example of the engine ever created will drive the new Batur by Mulliner up the hill, in the car’s UK dynamic debut, with 750 PS and 1,000 Nm promising stunning performance. Other models making their appearance at the Hillclimb include The Continental GT Le Mans Collection and the Continental GT Pikes Peak.
In addition, a 4½ Litre Supercharged, more commonly known as a Bentley Blower, will join this dynamic line up. The example that will run is Car Zero from the Blower Continuation Series, the world’s first pre-war continuation project that saw Mulliner create 12 new Blowers from scratch, using Bentley’s own 1929 Team Car #2 as the master.
As the Blower Continuation Series production comes to an end, Mulliner is turning its focus to their second continuation project – the Speed Six Continuation Series. This new run of 12 cars – again all sold – will be handcrafted in Mulliner’s workshop in Crewe, each a faithful continuation of the Speed Six specification that raced at Le Mans in 1930. Preceding the 12 customer cars will be two development vehicles – known as Car Zero and Factory Works. Speed Six Car Zero will make its global debut at this year’s Festival of Speed.