Bentley is not a brand you naturally associate with tyre smoke hanging in the air of an English industrial estate. Yet here we are: Travis Pastrana, patron saint of precision mayhem, threading a brand-new Bentley Supersports around the company’s Crewe “Dream Factory” like it’s a rally stage with better lighting. The result is Supersports: FULL SEND, a gymkhana-style film shot entirely on Bentley’s campus and premiered in Dubai to a crowd of customers who presumably did not arrive in economy.
If you think this is just marketing with extra throttle, it helps to know one thing. Bentley built a Supersports that can actually do the childish stuff properly.
Design: menace with a tailored suit
Bentley’s design language has always been about heft and confidence rather than sharp-edged aggression. Supersports leans into that tradition, but tightens the belt. The film makes a point of showing the car against the geometry of Crewe’s buildings, and it works: broad stance, purposeful aero, and a silhouette that still reads “Continental” even when it’s mid-drift.
What’s quietly radical is not the look, but what it signals. Supersports is Bentley admitting that “dynamic” can mean more than high-speed serenity. It can mean angles. Slip angles.
Interior: luxury that doesn’t apologise
Bentley interiors are rarely the story, because they are reliably excellent. But in the context of this film, the cabin matters: Pastrana is throwing around a production-based car, not a stripped-out special with a roll cage and excuses. The appeal is the contrast. You can imagine this thing idling outside a hotel entrance, then minutes later smearing rubber across a factory road with the sort of commitment that makes security teams sweat.
Supersports’ charm is that it doesn’t ask you to choose between craftsmanship and mischief. It offers both, and dares you to use them.
Performance: 666 PS and rear-drive credibility
The headline numbers are chosen with a wink: 666 PS, rear-wheel drive, and a chassis and aero package developed to make the car feel, in Bentley’s words and in Pastrana’s hands, genuinely agile. Rear-drive is the key narrative pivot. It’s what allows sustained drifts, donuts, and long slides that look theatrical but require real balance from the platform.
For the shoot, Bentley went further. The film car received a hydraulic handbrake mounted beside the steering wheel to instantly lock the rear axle, plus control-system integration so power returns cleanly as the lever is released. There were also software tweaks to allow “power braking” so brake and throttle can be applied simultaneously, letting Pastrana fine-tune the car’s attitude mid-drift and perform burnouts at will. This is not typical Bentley behaviour. That’s the point.
Culture and context: Pymkhana at the Dream Factory
Calling the route “Pymkhana” is a delightful bit of self-aware factory pride, referencing Pyms Lane, Bentley’s home since 1938. The film also doubles as a moving museum tour, with cameos ranging from Continental GT3 racers to the 2003 Le Mans-winning Speed 8, the W16 Hunaudières concept, and pre-war icons led by the 1929 Team Blower.
There’s also a nod to what Bentley is becoming. A camouflaged “luxury urban SUV” is teased for later this year, and Supersports itself is already sold out, with 500 units reserved. Production starts in Q4 2026, with first deliveries due early 2027. Even in an era of electrification roadmaps and sustainability promises, Bentley is reminding its audience that desire still starts with sensation.
The rare Bentley that wants to play
Supersports feels like Bentley giving itself permission. Permission to be rowdy, to be a little polarising, and to make a car that doesn’t just cover ground effortlessly but can also entertain when the road ends and the tarmac opens up.
The risk is obvious: some buyers want their Bentleys to glide, not gyrate. But the upside is bigger. In a luxury market crowded with fast, heavy, competent machines, personality is the new horsepower. Supersports has it. And Pastrana, of all people, just proved it the smoky, sideways way.
