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Bentley Continental Supersports

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Mean officially meets green. Despite its lightning quickness, top speed of more than 200 miles per hour, and otherwise insane performance capabilities, the Continental Supersports heralds a greener future for Bentley Motors.

The Continental Supersports is the first production car with the flying B logo to use a potent blend of eighty-five-percent ethanol and fifteen-percent petroleum known as E85 (each of Bentley's production models will have this "FlexFuel" option by 2012). At 104 octane, E85 burns hotter than gasoline, raising the W-shaped twelve-cylinder engine's output to 621 horsepower and nearly 600 foot pounds of torque.

That much torque will catapult the super coupe and its four occupants to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds (which, last time we counted, is very, very quick).

Going green is a powerful thing. Now all we need is an ethanol supply that does not cut into the world's food supply, and we'd have the perfect car.