BIG AND BOLD: Bentley's Continental GT
When the crystalline rays of Central Otago sunshine light the exterior surfaces of the new second-generation Bentley Continental GT, it gives the car's viewers an opportunity to fully appreciate what the designers at the Crewe factory have done.
The lines of the car might look similar to the first GT (and the 1952 Bentley R-Type that inspired it), but there's a new ripple of muscle to their form, and it really takes natural light that is 100 per cent pure and arc-welder bright to bring this out.
The sharper creases of the car, and the extra sculptural appeal they add, are all the more remarkable when you learn that new technologies needed to be developed to achieve these shadow-dancing effects with what remains a mass-produced car, albeit one made on a line moving at glacial speed.
