
A new Bentley Continental GT will set you back over $200k – north of $300k for the top Supersports model. Far less on the second-hand market, of course. But $27,700?
That's the deal that Autotrader columnist Tyler Hoover found on one used Conti. So he bought it, sight unseen, and opened himself up for a whole mess of trouble in the process.
Given that a 2004 Continental GT like this one should cost about $48k, Tyler knew he wasn't getting a cherry. But the Carfax report was pretty clean: relatively low mileage, no major damage, running condition... there was just one problem: a gaping ten-year gap in the car's history during which nothing was reported at all.
Despite its twelve cylinders, two turbochargers, six liters of displacement, and 552 original horsepower, a baker's dozen years (and several countries) after the fact, the Conti had trouble even keeping up with traffic – much less hitting its 197-mile-per-hour top speed or 4.8-second 0-62 time.
So how much trouble was Hoovie in for? He took it to his mechanic to find out, and reports on the status in the pair of videos below.
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