In short, YES. And that's a little disappointing frankly. Reason being, you've spent all this time making yourself believe that the 150 odd horsepower that you have in your own car is adequate. You tell yourself that it's impossible to use even that magnitude of power leave alone any more on the streets of our city, or anywhere this side of the Autobahn for that matter.

Once reasonably convinced, you find yourself putting that theory to test in the drivers' seat of a 600bhp behemoth – the Bentley Continental GT Speed. It takes just a single dab of the accelerator pedal, and everything you know to be true goes flying out the window. Press the accelerator pedal with any sort of intent and you pass half a dozen cars in one fell sweep. You begin to look for, and relish, clear patches of road where you can really exploit the power. And the most surprising thing of all is that you seem to find so many more opportunities than you would have otherwise imagined. You put pedal to the metal, in earnest, a few times in succession, and finally begin to understand the point of it all.