771 HP Meets Horizon Japan as the 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed Joins Forza Horizon 6

Grand touring has entered the hybrid era without surrendering its appetite for speed. The 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed has made its debut in Forza Horizon 6 , bringing 771 horsepower, all-wheel drive and Bentley’s new Ultra Performance Hybrid philosophy to the roads of Horizon Japan as one

Grand touring has entered the hybrid era without surrendering its appetite for speed. The 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed has made its debut in Forza Horizon 6, bringing 771 horsepower, all-wheel drive and Bentley’s new Ultra Performance Hybrid philosophy to the roads of Horizon Japan as one of the headline rewards of the British Automotive Festival Playlist.

This is not another returning Bentley pulled from Forza’s back catalogue. The fourth-generation Continental GT Speed is new to Horizon, and Playground Games has positioned it as the principal Series reward throughout British Automotive. Players who accumulate 80 Festival Playlist points between September 10 and October 8 can add it permanently to their garage, giving them one of the most powerful and technologically significant production cars Bentley has ever built.

Its arrival is particularly appropriate for Forza Horizon 6. Japan’s mixture of expressways, mountain roads and dense urban environments gives a grand tourer somewhere to demonstrate more than straight-line speed. With 737 lb-ft of torque, AWD and a stock rating of A 699, the Continental GT Speed arrives as something different from the lightweight sports cars and extreme hypercars surrounding it: a two-door luxury machine weighing well over two tonnes that can nevertheless accelerate like serious supercar machinery.

The Continental GT Has Changed More Than Its Styling Suggests

At first glance, the 2025 Continental GT Speed is still unmistakably Bentley. The long bonnet, muscular rear haunches and imposing proportions remain, but the fourth generation represents one of the biggest mechanical changes in the Continental’s 21-year history.

The familiar 6.0-liter twin-turbo W12 is gone. In its place is Bentley’s Ultra Performance Hybrid system, pairing a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 with an electric motor. Combined output reaches 771 bhp—782 PS in Bentley’s European figures—and 1,000 Nm of torque, or roughly 738 lb-ft.

That makes this generation more powerful than the W12 Continental GT Speed it replaced. Bentley described the model at launch as the most powerful road-going car the company had ever produced, demonstrating how dramatically electrification has changed what a luxury grand tourer can deliver without turning the Continental into a fully electric vehicle.

In Forza, You Get All 771 Horsepower

Playground Games lists the car at 771 horsepower and 737 lb-ft of torque, with AWD and an A 699 stock Performance Index. That places it right at the upper edge of A Class before any tuning begins, leaving considerable room for players who want to push it into higher categories.

The official Forza description also correctly identifies the new Continental as a plug-in hybrid despite listing its combustion engine simply as a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 in the Festival Playlist specifications. In the real car, that V8 produces 591 bhp on its own, while an electric motor integrated into the transmission contributes up to 188 bhp and a substantial burst of immediate torque.

For Horizon players, the important result is the combined output. Acceleration does not need to wait for a large turbocharged engine to build everything on its own; electric assistance helps deliver the kind of instant response expected from a much lighter performance car.

The Real Car Reaches 100 km/h in 3.2 Seconds

Bentley quotes 0-60 mph in 3.1 seconds and 0-100 km/h in 3.2 seconds, followed by a maximum speed of 208 mph, or 335 km/h. Those figures would be impressive for a dedicated sports car. They are particularly striking in a luxury four-seater intended to cross countries without sacrificing comfort.

Bentley even demonstrated the top speed before the car’s public debut by running a Continental GT Speed at 208 mph through Norway’s Ryfylke Tunnel, which the company promoted as an unofficial “underwater speed record” because the road passes beneath the sea.

Its public debut then came at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed, where the coupe and GTC climbed the famous hill as Bentley presented hybridization not as a concession to emissions regulations but as the next performance step for the Continental.

Two years later, Horizon players get to test that argument without having to locate a suitably empty Norwegian tunnel.

The Electric Motor Does More Than Add a Big Number

The hybrid system is important because it changes where the performance comes from. Bentley’s electric motor contributes 190 PS and 450 Nm on its own, helping fill the torque response while the twin-turbo V8 handles sustained high-speed performance.

That gives the Continental the broad power delivery expected from a grand tourer while preserving the character of a combustion engine. Bentley has not attempted to make the hybrid hardware invisible; it is integral to the model’s performance identity.

The battery also allows the real car to travel meaningful distances under electric power alone. Bentley originally quoted approximately 81 km of usable electric range under the applicable European cycle, alongside a combined touring range approaching 860 km.

None of that matters very much when somebody in Horizon Japan challenges you to a road race, but it explains why this generation represents more than a horsepower update.

AWD Has a Lot of Power to Manage

Putting 771 horsepower through four driven wheels is useful when the alternative is asking two rear tires to manage a thousand Newton-metres of torque. The Continental GT Speed combines its AWD system with a substantial collection of chassis technology intended to make the car considerably more agile than its size suggests.

The real model uses an electronic limited-slip differential, active torque vectoring, all-wheel steering and Bentley Dynamic Ride, a 48-volt active anti-roll system capable of controlling body movement during cornering without requiring the suspension to remain brutally stiff on ordinary roads.

Bentley also redesigned the chassis around a more rear-focused weight distribution than the previous generation, assisted by placing the hybrid battery behind the rear axle. The result was intended to make the fourth-generation Speed feel more neutral and adjustable instead of behaving merely like an extremely fast luxury coupe.

Those characteristics should make the car particularly interesting on Horizon Japan’s technical road network, where raw horsepower is rarely enough on its own.

Japan Is Almost the Ideal Horizon Map for a Modern Continental

The Continental GT has always been sold around the concept of covering enormous distances quickly and comfortably. Forza Horizon 6 provides a map where that identity actually makes sense.

Horizon Japan combines high-speed road networks with mountain passes, coastal routes and dense urban environments. On a long expressway run, the Bentley can exploit the same immense torque and high-speed stability that define the real car. Move into tighter mountain roads and its mass becomes harder to ignore, forcing players to use the AWD traction and chassis balance rather than pretending they are driving a lightweight coupe.

That contrast is more interesting than simply giving the Bentley an empty runway. A grand tourer is supposed to remain capable across wildly different roads, and Japan provides far more variety than a closed racing circuit could.

It Arrives During an Entire Month Dedicated to British Cars

The Bentley is the 80-point Series reward for British Automotive, Forza Horizon 6’s fifth Festival Playlist Series. Running from September 10 through October 8, the update celebrates British engineering through new cars, returning models, special dealership inventory and a permanent new driving activity.

Three cars are making their Horizon debut through Festival Playlist progression: the 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed, 2019 Ginetta G40 Junior and 2006 Vauxhall Astra VXR. Returning rewards include the Jaguar XKR-S GT and Lotus Esprit V8, while the Bentley Bentayga and Aston Martin Valhalla Concept appear among the Series’ rarer rewards.

The 160-point Series reward sits at the opposite extreme from the Bentley: the 2019 Aston Martin Valhalla Concept, a 1,042-horsepower hypercar rated R 960. That gives the Series a useful contrast between Britain’s modern grand-touring philosophy and an uncompromising hybrid performance concept.

The Continental Only Requires Half of the Series Maximum Reward

Players specifically interested in the Bentley do not need to complete everything British Automotive offers. 80 points across the full four-week Series is enough to unlock the Continental GT Speed, while the Valhalla requires 160.

Because the requirement is Series-wide rather than tied to one individual week, players can accumulate points from the Festival Playlist activities available across Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. That gives substantially more flexibility than a car restricted to one seven-day seasonal window.

There is still a deadline. British Automotive ends on October 8, so players who want the new Bentley through its original Playlist reward should reach 80 points before the Series rotates.

As of September 29, there is still time—but the final week is approaching.

British Automotive Has Added a Permanent Drift Mode Too

The new Bentley may headline the car rewards, but Series 5’s biggest gameplay addition is Drift Attack, a permanent mode located at Shimanoyama Circuit.

Playground describes it as something between Drift Zones and Time Attack. Players drive through a gantry directly from the open world and attempt to score as many drift points as possible during a lap, with no restriction on how many laps they can run. Special Clipping Zones provide score bonuses when drifts pass through designated areas, adding a precision requirement beyond simply maintaining long slides.

Drift Attack supports Solo, Convoy and Shared World participation and includes leaderboards. Progressing through its Collection Journal rewards also unlocks a dedicated racesuit and helmet alongside the 1990 Jaguar XJ-S Forza Edition, specifically built for sideways driving.

A 771-horsepower AWD Bentley is probably not the first vehicle most players will choose for that purpose, although Horizon has never been particularly interested in stopping anyone from trying.

A Second Bentley Is Available During Winter

British Automotive also gives the manufacturer another moment through the 2016 Bentley Bentayga, available as the 40-point Winter reward between September 24 and October 1.

The contrast between the two Bentleys neatly summarizes how much has changed in a decade. The Bentayga uses the old-school 6.0-liter W12, producing 599 horsepower and 663 lb-ft of torque, while the new Continental GT Speed extracts significantly greater output from a smaller V8 aided by electrification.

The Bentayga also demonstrates why Forza’s expanding historical catalogue remains valuable. Players can put different periods of the same manufacturer next to each other and experience the technological shift directly rather than simply reading the specifications.

In this case, the difference is particularly obvious: twelve cylinders versus eight plus an electric motor, with the hybrid making considerably more power.

Bentley Has Built Almost 100,000 Continentals Since 2003

The fourth-generation model also carries the weight of one of Bentley’s most important modern nameplates. The original Continental GT debuted in 2003 and became a transformative product for the company, combining Bentley’s traditional luxury positioning with production volumes far beyond its earlier hand-built cars.

By the time Bentley previewed the fourth generation in 2024, it said almost 100,000 Continental GTs had been handcrafted in Crewe across the first 20 years of production.

That makes replacing the W12 particularly significant. The engine had become closely associated with modern Bentley, and abandoning it could easily have made the new model feel like a downsized successor. Bentley’s response was essentially to overwhelm the objection with performance: more combined power, more torque and quicker acceleration than before.

SUPER-LIMIT BREAKING NEO might be an appropriate name for another game, but Bentley seems to have adopted something similar as an engineering philosophy.

The Styling Marks a Break With Two Decades of Continental Design

Mechanical changes are only part of the fourth generation. The 2025 car introduced the most substantial redesign of the Continental GT since the original model, borrowing cues from limited-production cars such as the Bacalar and Batur.

Most visibly, the traditional paired round headlights have disappeared. The new Continental uses single headlamps on each side for the first time on a mainstream Bentley in decades, giving the nose a cleaner and more modern appearance while retaining the large matrix grille.

Bentley says roughly 68% of the components are new compared with the previous generation, extending the redesign into electrical architecture, chassis systems, cabin technology and materials.

That makes the Forza addition useful from a preservation perspective too. The game is not simply adding another trim level of an existing Continental model; it is adding the generation that represents Bentley’s transition away from the W12 era.

A 2.5-Ton Grand Tourer Should Create an Interesting A-Class Build

The Continental’s stock A 699 classification may be one of its most interesting gameplay characteristics. It sits only one PI point below A700, placing it directly at the class boundary before players begin modifying anything.

That means even modest upgrades will immediately push the car upward, while players interested in keeping it within A Class will need to tune around a very tight performance budget. Its enormous standard power output also means the challenge is unlikely to be finding more horsepower.

Weight, braking, tire grip and chassis response are much more obvious areas to investigate.

A lightweight A-Class sports car will still have major advantages on technical routes, but the Bentley can counter with AWD traction and enormous acceleration on faster sections. Whether it becomes genuinely competitive or primarily an entertaining luxury bruiser will depend on the available upgrade options and what tuners discover once enough players begin experimenting with it.

The New Bentley Fits Forza Horizon Better Than a Circuit Simulator

There is something appropriate about seeing a Continental GT Speed debut in Horizon rather than only in a pure circuit racer. The car was never designed solely to chase lap times. Its identity depends on combining performance that approaches supercars with the comfort and usability expected from a Bentley.

Horizon’s open world lets players use that entire range of abilities. There is room for high-speed motorway runs, Road Racing, mountain exploration and aimless cross-country journeys where arriving somewhere is more important than shaving another tenth from a lap.

That is probably where the Continental feels most authentic. It is not trying to become the lightest or most focused thing in the garage.

It is trying to make ridiculous performance feel effortless.

The Grand Tourer Has Arrived at Horizon Japan

The 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed is available now as the 80-point British Automotive Series reward, with players having until October 8 to reach the requirement.

What they receive is one of Bentley’s most important modern cars: the first fourth-generation Continental GT Speed, the model that replaced the company’s famous W12 with an Ultra Performance Hybrid V8 and somehow emerged with more power than before. Its 771 horsepower, 737 lb-ft of torque and AWD system place it at A 699 in stock configuration, leaving Horizon tuners an unusually potent starting point.

There are much lighter cars in Japan. There are faster hypercars. There are certainly cheaper ways to cross the map.

Few will do it with quite this much leather.

The Horizon Festival has its new grand tourer.

And Bentley has brought 771 horsepower to the party.