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While other car producers release bit-by-bit information about their concept cars in advance of the Geneva Motor Show, the Italian design studio Zagato decided to skip all the teasers and previews and release to the press the full details of its new project all at once. As a matter of fact they haven’t put forward anything about the development of Zagato’s coach built Bentley since the initial report from last December, but the Milanese carrozzeria has made known that they will be presenting the car at the Show that is now only days away.

Back in December Zagato announced that they would be working with Bentley on a new project but failed to talk about which Bentley. Now we know, as we guessed in December it will indeed be the Bentley continental GT Speed. Labeled the ‘GTZ’, the modified Bentley is just the latest in a long history of coach built cars from Zagato including last year’s Diatto Ottovù and previous projects from Ferrari, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Rolls Royce and MG.

Starting from the naturally fast Bentley Continental GT Speed, this Zagato project preserves, from what has been released to the press, the donor car’s considerable mechanics, on top of which the Italians have put a unique looking two-tone coachwork painted in classic British racing green. The GTZ features a hand-shaped aluminium body with pronounced character lines, flared wheel arches and a revised rear end with new taillights. Changes have been made on the interior also, this being fitted with more sumptuous leather and a new centre console.

At the moment this project is only a concept car but depending on the attention it draws and possible orders it receives in Geneva it may eventually end up in limited production. Underneath the hood is the regular GT Speed powertrain, which means 600hp (441kW) and 750Nm (553ft-lb) of torque from a force-fed W12 engine.