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The problem with building cars to be heavy and luxurious is that any pretence of handling prowess gets squashed like Trevor the Accord beneath a borrowed tank.

Bentley has been working on that, though, with a new anti-roll system planned for the all-new 2018 Continental GT, and this video shows it in action at (where else?) the Nurburgring. The purple-blue semi-camouflaged GT in the footage can be seen tyre-squealing its way around the circuit with little or no body roll. It looks… weird, bringing back memories of the old Bose system that was tested on a Lexus LS400 back in the 1990s. The way the car moves doesn’t tally with what your brain is telling you should be happening.