New Bentley Flying Spur Tears It Up in Teaser Photo

Bentley is to reveal a new Flying Spur on September 10 and it'll be the most powerful sedan in the firm's 105-year history.

Describing it as a "four-door supercar" Bentley has confirmed that the Flying Spur will receive the same 782-hp Ultra Performance Hybrid powertrain as the new Continental GT Speed.

Replacing the now-departed W-12 is a four-liter turbo V-8 that delivers 599 hp and joins forces with an electric motor to provide Bentley's biggest punch ever. There's also a combined 737 lb-ft of torque when ICE and electricity work together. In the Continental GT that makes for a 0-62 mph sprint of 3.3 seconds and a vMax of 208 mph. In the bigger, heavier Flying Spur you can expect to loose a few tenths, but it should still top out beyond 200 mph.

As it's a plug-in hybrid with a 29.5 kWh battery pack the Flying Spur will be able to travel over 45 miles on electric alone, while carbon dioxide emissions are below 40 g/km.

Bentley is keeping mum about the rest of the car's specification, but we'd be very surprised if it didn't also benefit from the ZF dual-valve damping, 48-volt anti-roll system, torque vectoring, e-diff and four-wheel steering that have made the Continental GT quite alarmingly agile.

"Its certainly entertaining-all the way to the lockstops if you turn everything off," concluded Hagerty's Henry Catchpole.

Bentley will drop a video next week showcasing "the car's newly-expanded dynamic capabilities-at the hands of racing stars old and new." Should be worth a watch.