Bentley Continental R

The Bentley Continental R is a luxury coupe built by Bentley Motors from 1991 to 2003. It was the first Bentley since the 1965 S3 Continental to wear a body not shared with a Rolls-Royce, and the first to use the GM 4L80-E automatic transmission. In its day it was the fastest, most expensive and most powerful Bentley, and at its launch the most expensive production car in the world. The design grew from the 1985 Project 90 concept shown at Geneva and from a 1986 rendering by Graham Hull, riding on the Rolls-Royce SZ platform with a streamlined two-door body styled by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley. A convertible derivative, the Azure, followed in 1995.