{"id":299041,"date":"2010-02-09T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/09\/coachbuilder-carrozzeria-touring-superleggera-to-launch-bentley\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:28:00","slug":"coachbuilder-carrozzeria-touring-superleggera-to-launch-bentley-continental-shooting-brake-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299041","title":{"rendered":"Coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera to launch Bentley Continental shooting brake in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/coupes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coupe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/geneva-motor-show\/\" rel=\"tag\">Geneva Motor Show<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hatchbacks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hatchback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/bentley\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bentley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/special-limited-editions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Specialty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/luxury\/\" rel=\"tag\">Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicdriver.com\/uk\/magazine\/3300.asp?id=14487\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/02\/bentley-shooting-brake-630.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, we heard rumors that coachbuilder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/carrozzeriatouringsuperleggera\">Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera<\/a> planned to introduce a new bespoke version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/02\/carrozzeria-touring-reportedly-to-unveil-coachbuilt-bentley-cont\/\">Bentley Continental GT<\/a>. Now we&#8217;ve got confirmation that the firm will indeed introduce an shooting brake based on the GT at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/genevamotorshow\">Geneva Motor Show<\/a> early next month.<\/p>\n<p>Only 20 three-door estates are planned, and they&#8217;ll reportedly be built atop the buyer&#8217;s choice of a regular <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/model\/continental\">Continental GT<\/a> or an uplevel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/07\/28\/in-the-autoblog-garage-bentley-continental-gt-speed\/\">Continental GT Speed<\/a>. This will be the company&#8217;s first product based on a vehicle from Bentley, though past models included the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/make\/ferrari\">Ferrari<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/aston-martin\/\">Aston Martin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/lamborghini\/\">Lamborghini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have many details other than the teaser sketch above and that the GT will have two rear seats that fold independently, making for what we can only assume will be the World&#8217;s Most Luxurious Six-Foot Luggage Parcel. An electrically operated folding tailgate is also on the menu.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicdriver.com\/uk\/magazine\/3300.asp?id=14487\">Classic Driver<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/09\/coachbuilder-carrozzeria-touring-superleggera-to-launch-bentley\/\">Coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera to launch Bentley Continental shooting brake in Geneva<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:28:00 EST.  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Now we&#8217;ve got confirmation that the firm will indeed introduce an shooting brake based on the GT at the Geneva Motor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}