"Europe" is a paradise on earth, but what about underground? Test drive Bentley continental GT

After a long time, it is supported by magical modern technology. Bentley Continental GT (Conti? GT) has many similarities with the Faroe Islands. ......

"This is the first gasoline car to set foot here, and in fact it is also the first car to set foot here, not to mention the first Bentley", P/F? Eystur-og？ Teitur of Sandoyartunlar? Samuelson, before we drive the brand-new Bentley Continental carefully? GT nervously asked when he entered a huge hole that was horribly messy: "Are you sure there is no problem?" ? This road is really too difficult to walk. "

"Sure, don't worry," I replied through the intercom, pretending to be calm and heavy. At the same time, I pressed Kong Di's air suspension button and quietly but firmly raised the chassis. "We have improved the suspension and have four-wheel drive. This car can be said to be designed for this environment in essence. " But I can feel a disapproving look directly from 20 feet away through the double glass of the car door weighing about 70 kilograms.

Probably because I know I'm deceiving myself. According to this equipment configuration, this Continental is a super sports GT with a value of 202,000 pounds, but I used this car to slowly climb an unfinished undersea tunnel, and there are stones as big as grapefruit on the ground. Every time Bentley's insightful red paint passes through the sparse lights of the tunnel, it is as red as blood flowing from the artery. In this case, I can't help regretting my recklessness again.

"We have suspended the blasting for 90 minutes," Taitul said without hesitation, "so we must speed up. By the way, we just passed under the sea, about three-quarters kilometers away from the roundabout (Baidu explained clearly that it is a circular one-way driving). "

Under this overwhelming but understated statement, we have become a "submarine", or more appropriately, a submarine tunnel drilling team. Our current position is about one kilometer deep into the tunnel. This new cross-island tunnel will run through Eysturoy, the second largest island in the Faroe Islands, and Streymoy, the largest island. From the map, the Faroe Islands are like floating duckweeds scattered randomly between Denmark and Iceland. It may be easier to believe that there are dragons on the map. The tunnels we usually see are all asphalt pavements, brightly lit, and the completion degree is much higher than what we see in front of us.

However, we really want to take this trip to see this tunnel first, so we made some special arrangements and were allowed to enter this tunnel. This tunnel is planned to pass through the underground from Tórshavn on Stremmer Island to Skálafj on the East Island. r？ Ur) 7. 1km original tunnel (at present, the project only leads to a very simple roundabout). According to the design, the tunnel will be divided into two parts around the island, namely, Rókini, which runs through Saltnes village in East Island, and Sjógv, which is located in Strendur area on the other side of East Island, shortening the distance between them from 55km to17km, saving almost one hour's drive than now, which is definitely useful for transporting fresh seafood. This tunnel is scheduled to open in 2020, and another tunnel leading to the southern island of Sandoy will be completed in 2023. All this means: 1) There is a gravel roundabout under the North Atlantic; No one has ever tried to draw doughnuts here with Bentley.

That's it. I found myself drifting aimlessly around a basalt submarine pillar in a four-wheel drive GT (drawing donuts), but I wanted to see how far I could drift. If someone hadn't stopped me loudly, I'm afraid I would have been crushed into a persimmon by one of the huge drilling towers that occasionally passed through the tunnel and become a consumer prop in the movie Alien. When Kandy's bright white light swept through the bare rock wall, you could see that the rock wall was oozing cold sweat under the weight of the seabed, and at the same time, W 12 was unnaturally inhaled and made a buffalo-like voice, and every time the oil collection and pressure relief valve carefully suppressed the sneeze.

You can imagine the messy buildings here, but the air is surprisingly warm. About half a mile away, several tunnel experts are preparing to form explosives, but there is a good floating gravel circle in front of them! Of course, this roundabout is not to satisfy meaningless stupidity, but to connect these artificial veins that run through the Faroe Islands. Considering that the total population of the Faroe Islands is only 50,000, this large-scale tunnel project seems to be a bit of a fuss. However, there are some strange things on this archipelago, so this large-scale construction will be the most attractive infrastructure project in the world.

The Faroe Islands consists of eighteen major volcanic islands, and there are so many vowels used in the names of the islands that you can't believe it. The beautiful scenery on the island is varied, such as the wonderful integration of the Scottish highlands and the Nordic fjords. Living here, no matter where you start, go straight in any direction and you will see the sea within three miles. The coastline is tirelessly dug with big fingers by the ruthless sea, and it becomes broken and rugged under the ruthless scouring of time and waves. But the miracle doesn't stop there. We are here to learn more about the details here. It is really deep underground. The reaction is not slow in the rain.

At first glance, this seems to have nothing to do with the local scenery, but the Faroe Islands are carrying out large-scale civil engineering and rural development plans, aiming at connecting most islands and turning the whole area into a "networked" or "decentralized" city. In other words, the Faroe Islands are investing heavily in the construction of roads, bridges and super tunnels to create an "economic and cultural economic circle covering almost 90% of the population". According to the local government, all this is basically equivalent to ending the fragmented separation of the island and turning the whole autonomous territory into a single entity, which runs through a series of distributed "central points" extending in all directions.

In order to cover the vast archipelago, it needs the most intriguing modern expressway network in the world, and some people even suggest that it should be built on Sangdao and South Island (Su? Uroy) and dig another tunnel (a giant tunnel more than 20 kilometers long, known as the longest undersea tunnel in the world), then the road network can connect 99% of the Faroe Islands. For an archipelago the size of a palm, but few people pay attention to it, this is undoubtedly a big plan for the world. Once these tunnels are completed, the Faroe Islands will become a community with strong traditional flavor on the surface, but supported by epoch-making transportation infrastructure, which is very different from Bentley Europe with traditional external and high-tech internal.

To be fair, the trip to the Faroe Islands was generally smooth. The first journey is simple: under the ensemble of 626 horsepower W 12 gentle bass and 6500 hard pounds Niam sound system, it took 14 hours to cross Europe, and the average fuel consumption during the period of 9.9L/ 100km was really not high. Kong Di on the German infinite expressway, the speed, stability, momentum, everyone expected, despite the rubino? Red? The endurance limit of GT winter tires is only slightly higher than 255km/h, and the fuel consumption performance inevitably drops vertically like diving.

This is definitely worth telling others about fuel consumption-if you have a modern Bentley, you will naturally understand that with the long-distance driving journey, the apes on both sides of the strait can't cry, and the canoe has passed Chung Shan Man.

After that, we crossed the stormy waves by ferry in Hirtshals, northern Denmark, and experienced the unforgettable nine-meter wave and the strange taste of tying ourselves firmly to a narrow bed with many belts. After others got seasick for more than 40 hours, we arrived at Tórshavn, the main port of Faroe Islands. It was still dark at six o'clock in the morning, and then we took a step from the religious downtown to the mountains. Just when the buildings in the town began to become sparse, crude and tasteless, we finally saw the appropriate Faroe scenery for the first time at the foot of a hill on Stremmer Island, but we felt that the bright sunshine was like a rainbow spit out by a unicorn on the horizon.

So we went around for a long time to explore the secret, and found that this is a wonderful land full of exotic customs without strangeness. The main line here is well maintained and not difficult to cope with, because the warm current from the Gulf of Mexico represents the Faroe Islands. Although there is plenty of rainfall, it seldom snows heavily. The branch road is like a narrow path, and there is no guardrail along the road, which makes people wonder what the intention is. Well, in a word, it is wild. The most striking sight in front of us is the small peaks that look like huge Leviathan spikes and are inserted into the sea site. The air is also a must, except for the faint smell of seawater, which is absolutely fresh. It can be seen that the local industrial development is not very prosperous. You can't help but take a deep breath and breathe out the vulgarity in your body. In fact, every time I get out of Bentley's car, I blink slowly again and again to give my brain time to sort things out.

After two days of exploration, we visited a group of houses with lawn roofs, which were handed down from generation to generation by the same family from the17th century. The village where these houses are located is said to be the first place where the vikings landed. At the same time, when we climb a mountain along a narrower and narrower road, we slip on a smooth and icy uphill road, and we must try our best to pull back from the cliff in time. In order to avoid the big Toona sinensis trees that have been bent on the asphalt by the sea breeze for many years, it seems that they don't want to be hit by the wind and rain again. These plants are like an ambush with extraordinary patience, and they will kill each other when our defense line falls.

I have drilled these new tunnels from two islands and met many very kind and interesting people. After that, I drove a red Bentley around the island and saw sporadic islands or reefs from time to time near the vast sea. These reefs, like rock fragments scattered randomly along the coast of the Big Island, have become grotesque stone scenes in the endless sea plunder, licking the sugar residue between their teeth. From time to time, I will go straight to the one-way traffic tunnel that runs halfway up the mountain. As soon as you get out of the tunnel, you will jump on the arms like lovers and lightly embrace the two-way highway on the mountainside. Because the unpredictable weather on the island is almost crazy, you may be locked thousands of miles away by fog when you go up the mountain, but when you go down the mountain, it is sunny, hail and heavy rain, or even rain and snow. You will pass many modern bridges, and then cross the bridge for 500 meters. You will find that Kandy has to squeeze through17th century churches and houses with grassy roofs. By the way, the most popular local mowing method is to pick the lightest one from the flock and send it to the roof for grazing for a few days.

Strange to think about, Kong Di is actually adapting to the environment here. You may think that this is the ideal 4x4 or light sports car next to the winch, but Bentley feels at home in this magnificent land. When other cars were adjusted to imply malicious and annoying quirks, Condi found another way. The footwall is flexible and has a long tenacity, and the acceleration is fierce but not strong. It feels like speeding up with a slingshot instead of a shotgun, and at the same time it can make a splash to attract the attention of passers-by. This Bentley, like many cars that are difficult to define clearly, needs time and distance to get familiar with and chew carefully. This is the difference between adrenaline burst and endorphin infiltration into human spleen.

Some cars in the world seem to be piled up with bare cobwebs and fashion. They tried their best to steal light weight and hollow components, but the firmness was not much different from that of plastic crisper. Bentley is nothing like this. It has both the solidity of an old oak tree and the massiness of history. It is not flashy, but it has an implicit temperament that is not angry and arrogant, just in line with the temperament of the Faroe Islands. This promised land is full of buildings, bright neon, crowded with people and traffic, but it is amazing in a quiet and exquisite style. This is called seeing the micro-knowledge, and the style is self-revealing, but it is a little slow.

The Faroe Islands are really strange. At one end of the island, surrounded by scattered villages in a small bay, I looked at another magnificent scenery and thought. This place hopes to develop tourism, and the wildness of a few people will not be confused by the sightseeing bus delegation. The history of these villages can be directly traced back to the time when the vikings landed, but you can travel all over the island with the latest and strangest road network in the world. In fact, it is really like Bentley today. They all stick to tradition, dare to modernize and strive to strike a balance between tradition and modernization. However, after staying on the island for four days, we just hoisted the hurricane signal of category 8 when we left the ship. When I thought that I had to sail for more than 40 hours and then drive across Europe for 20 hours to get back to Lincolnshire, I suddenly realized that sometimes it takes quite a long time to strike a balance between the traditional and the modern world. Fortunately, Bentley Europe? GT has proved that the two can really coexist harmoniously in every kilometer of the return journey.

Vehicle model parameters

Bentley continental GT

Price: 159, 100.

Engine: 5.998 liters w12,635 horses, 900 nm.

Transmission: 8-speed automatic all-wheel drive

Performance: 0- 100km/h? 3.7 seconds, 333 km/h

Fuel efficiency: 12.2L/ 100km, 278g/km? carbon dioxide

Weight: 2244kg

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