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The Continental GT has been a massive success for Bentley since its launch in 2003. Over the past six years more than 30,000 GT Coupes and Flying Spur and GTC variants have been sold worldwide – and while the majority have been stunning, every now and then someone gets one and thinks it would be better with a ludicrous paintjob or wheels bigger than Pat Butcher's earrings.

Somehow these artists/designers/fashionistas think they're getting it right but they really aren't. Take Paris Hilton for example; she took her Bentley Continental GT to West Coast Customs, and after an extensive makeover, the car emerged with pink body, wheels and seats; it really is a mortifying piece of metal.

Japanese tuner ASI gave the Continental GT a power increase from 556bhp to 800bhp. Power increases like that are good with a capital G, but making it gold and putting flowers on the bonnet is bad with a capital SH…

Never afraid to take a piece of good work and ruin it is tuning house Mansory, with a car that's part orange, part black and 100 per cent awful.

One that's so bad it's good is Arturo Alonso's concept based on a 1960's Bentley S3 limousine. Lowered, widened and fitted 20-inch alloy wheels, it looked generally ridiculous from every angle.

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