What does your Bentley Continental GT Convertible REALLY need for the Country?

Bentley is at pains to demonstrate just how clever and fetching the new Tweed roof for the Bentley Continental GT Convertible really is.

It’s a year since the new Bentley Continental GT Convertible arrived, the car which used to be called the Continental GTC, and with it a range of options for the roof which covered the usual gamut of colours.

But in amongst the choice of seven colour options for the clever folding roof, which promises to make the GTC as quiet as the Coupe, Bentley said there would also be a Tweed option. Yes, an option for the country Gent with a wide-boy penchant offering the same favourite hand-me-down fabric as shooting clobber.

But Bentley wants buyers to know that the Tweed roof of the GTC isn’t just a bit of urine-soaked Harris Tweed which will get soggy at the first sign of mizzle on the moors, but a 21st century fabric which will be just as good as the non-Tweed versions but look that bit different.

The Tweed roof is a redefined version of Tweed using two solid tones woven together to capture the essence of modern retro-tailoring by using a cream and brown woven construction which looks beige at a distance but which reveals the Tweed look as you get closer (the inset in the photo above).

Cathy Bass, Colour and Trim designer at Bentley, said:

We wanted to create something that hadn’t been done before and we had never seen a Tweed effect hood

It was an intuitive sense that this was exactly what I was looking for, the only problem was that it was made with completely the wrong weave structure as our hood material has a very specific woven construction to meet technical and engineering requirements.

We went through many rounds of dying both of the yarns before we found the right combination.

So you won’t need to worry about your Bentley Continental Gt Convertible’s Tweed roof getting soggy or smelling like a public convenience. Which is reassuring.