With its highest horsepower and lowest suspension, the GT Speed is Bentley's most athletic production car. But what happens when you chop off the roof? Does it retain the qualities that make the Continental such a great ultra GT — its momentousness and poise — or is there just too much rarified air blowing into that…

We're testing out the new Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible near Lake Tahoe, and — well look at that — it's snowing like mad. So far the 5500-pound, 616-horsepower AWD bruiser is holding its own against the SUVs. We've got Dunlop winter shoes on and chains in the trunk if we need them. We'll call if we need air…

Bentley's seen eights come and go; the 8-litre coach of 1930, the cloth-seated Eight "training Bentley" of the 1980s, the Le Mans-winning Speed 8 prototype of 2003. Two of those even had V8 engines, like the new Continental GT V8. Can the more-fuel-efficient octomill match the mighty W12? Let's find out.

Now here's a bit of unexpected test-car porn. Quattro World readers caught an apparent Audi RS7 test vehicle in Las Vegas, clad in stealthy matte black and powered by the same 4.0-liter TFSI V8 as the new Bentley Continental GT.

Suck it, Dubai. London's Canary Wharf sees your abandoned luxury cars epidemic, and raises you a Bentley. According to Jalop LordDetroitofLondon, this is the second abandoned luxocar in a month raised from the apartment complex's underground lot. The first was an Aston Vantage.

Toiling away will never be like flogging a classic GT at 11/10ths, but a line of seats inspired by classic sports cars' butt-buckets may make doing that presentation just a bit less sucky.

Bentley hasn't confirmed it, but a return of the Bentley Turbo R could be two years away. The Mulsanne-based coupe would get a 600-hp version of the top Bentley's 6.75-liter V8. That, and about an acre of polished Burr oak.

What happens when technology meets enthusiasts' basement carbuilding? You get stuff like this Bentley Speed 8 replica, which a mad Swedish genius has been scheming, programming and constructing under cover of a Northern European winter. Now it's in the daylight.

No doubt the Bentley twin-turbo W12 is a torque monster. Add all-wheel drive and you've got the perfect stump puller, especially if your stump happens to be a Sprinter van that's stuck in the snow. Extra credit for cable attachment.