New Bentley Continental Flying Spur Breaks Cover

Its official launch is due in the coming hours, but the 2014 Bentley Contintental Flying Spur has broken cover early today.

The "baby" Bentley four-door has had a styling refresh under designers Dirk van Braekel and Gareth Thomas, bringing it into line with the Continental GT and GTC and big brother Mulsanne.

The ageing curves of the previous model have been sharpened up, and the boot even has a touch of Rolls Royce Phantom about it.

The interior has also come in for some work, gaining a new steering wheel, instruments, switchgear and centre console.

Cabin materials have been updated, although there's no word on the Mulsanne's duck-down loose cushions moving down the range.

As always, there's an enormous amount of leather, wood and wool applied to the spacious interior.

The car shown here is said to be powered by a 6.0 litre twin turbo W12, which in other Bentley models produces a meteor-chasing 460kW and 800Nm of torque.