Switzerland has 4400 mountains and some of the most serpentine roads in the world. Hairpins connect hairpins to hairpins, and while you’re negotiating them, you are usually plunging into a valley or climbing to the skies.

These roads are frustrating or treacherous for much of the year: in summer, they’re packed with vacationers in their campervans; in winter, they’re blanketed with ice and snow. But there’s a happy time in between and, unsurprisingly, that’s when Bentley decided to hold the international launch for its fourth-generation Bentley Continental GT.