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During my test drive, I had to run errands and gather items from various merchants for a fund-raiser. This provided me and the Bentley with a lot of entertainment, because the Continental GT visited places that I’m pretty sure it had never been before, including a stop at a tattoo joint.

“It’s a place you go when you want to have a piece of art permanently emblazoned on your body.” I said. Getting a blank stare from the car, I continued, “You know, like your ‘B’ badges or, even more appropriate, like the embroidered Latch connector symbols on your backseats.”

Yes, moms and dads, the B had Latch connectors with embroidered icons indicating their placement, thank you very much. But rear-facing infant-safety seats and convertible car seats won’t fit in the backseat. My kids, who sit in booster seats, were comfortable in the rear seat. But trust me; you’ll never, ever want to put child-safety seats in this car. Car seats will be the beginning of the end for this beautiful machine. Once you install a car seat, you just might allow a kid in there, then a snack or two and maybe even a drawing utensil. Even if you don’t allow those things, your children — as fabulous as we all know they are — will sit in the back and get the beautiful wood veneered interior full of fingerprints. I’m not trying to be down on kids in the Bentley, but kids are gunky and they’ll mess up your Continental. And it will break your heart.

I digress.

It’s got the plushest, most beautiful carpet. The leather is soft and supple, and the seats had a multitude of adjustments. I hate to say this, but the seats made me crazy. I couldn’t find the right spot where I could get good visibility over the dash and still sit comfortably. When you got out of the car, the seat scoots back to give you room to move. But when I’d get back in, the seat never seemed to move back to its proper spot, and I kept setting the driver’s seat memory button. But the Bentley is so luxurious and considerate that I wondered if my own pesky body wasn’t growing and shrinking a couple inches just to confuse the car.

The Bentley has lots of stealthy and surprising features. It’s got a Breitling timepiece in the center stack. The multimedia system controlled nearly everything in the Continental. There was a central knob that did most of the work. This knob’s feel changed depending on the task at hand. For example, if you used it to surf the radio stations, the knob would turn and turn and turn. However, if you switched to the climate control and wanted to turn the fan to High, the knob would stop turning after a few clicks. This knob knew when to behave a certain way (maybe it could teach my kids a thing or two). This kind of attention to detail was delightful, thoughtful and impressive.

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