Bentley Continental GT gets a tweed roof

The 2020 Continental GT convertible wears tweed like any upstanding Brit, only it’s not what it looks like. The world’s finest tweed comes from Scotland and Ireland, where the tough, thick wool has warmed both working and wealthy classes for centuries. While impressively wind and water resistant, tweed doesn’t sport the same durability for a car’s roof as it does woven into a cap. But Bentley wanted the look for its Continental GT convertible, and what Bentley wants in a fabric top, Bentley gets from the Boston suburb of Acton, Massachusetts.

Haartz makes the fabric for nearly every softtop convertible on sale. The Union Jack–patterned top on the Mini Cooper convertible, the odd double-glass roof for the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet—they’re all sourced from New England where the locals can’t pronounce their Rs.

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