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As soon as the narrow English country road opens up, Ulrich Eichhorn releases the little Michael Schumacher inside him. Although the pavement is still slippery from the morning rain, Bentley’s R&D chief lets the mighty, camouflage-gray coupe fly as if this were his final qualifying lap for the pole position at Monaco. All the while, he delivers a real-time monologue: “Turn-in is much crisper now, see? A lot crisper, in fact. Can you feel the car hug the road? Can you feel the extra grip? The wider rear track does make a difference. And so do the new twenty-inch Pirelli UHP tires. Now watch the tail. It’ll slide just a bit through the next left-hander. Just a bit – there! But catching it is the easiest trick in the book. Even when I switch off stability control . . . ” Sure enough, he does, just in time for a traffic circle. The car dives deep, then Eichhorn lifts, and as the rear end swings around, the nicely balanced all-wheel-drive system waltzes the Supersports – all 4940 pounds of it – gracefully toward the third exit.inline_mediumwraptextright30986271/reviews/driven/0912_2010_bentley_continental_supersports0912_01_z+2010_bentley_continental_supersports+front_three_quarter_view.jpgTrue

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