The Bentley Continental GT range has been a massive success for the British car maker 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 some of them weren’t to the Manchester United team.

In the majority these stunning examples of British craftsmanship have been exactly that, stunning. Cristiano Ronaldo, in a rare show of taste, is the owner of a classy blue GT Speed which is being sold on Auto Trader.

Gallery: Ronaldo's cars

But every now and then someone gets one and thinks it would be better with a ludicrous paintjob or wheels bigger than the 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.

The socialite loves pink and thinks the whole world needs to know this so she took her Bentley Continental GT to West Coast Customs, who used to work on Pimp My Ride.

After an extensive makeover, Miss Hilton’s Bentley emerged, er, pink. With pink body, pink wheels and pink seats, it really is a mortifying piece of metal.

Gallery: When Bentleys go bad

And then there’s Japanese tuner ASI who 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.
 
Turning their arm to Bentley, the German company made its Continental part orange, part black and 100 per cent awful. It got orange wheels too, maybe they see the paintjob as an extension of driver’s personality. Or their girlfriend’s tan.

And here’s one that is so bad it’s actually good.

Arturo Alonso, a fella from the brilliantly named ‘Bentley Boys’ designed a concept based on a 1960’s Bentley S3 limousine.

He took the basic design and lowered it, widened it, fitted 20-inch alloy wheels and made it generally ridiculous from every angle. In particular the front which, we guess, suggests the S3 Concept would struggle on cobbled roads with width restrictions.