Rolls Royce are planning a presence in South America, with plans afoot for new Rolls Royce Showrooms in Brazil and Chile. The paradox of the current economic malaise is that luxury goods – and luxury cars in particular - seem immune from the problems of the mainstream. Rolls Royce – to many still the epitome of luxury [...]
Rolls Royce has created a one-off DHC for the Masterpiece London 2011 event at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, featuring an integrated custom Asprey Jewellery box. The Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe isn’t the most ubiquitous car on the road. Yes, you’ll see a few if you frequent certain postcodes in London, but they’re a rare old [...]
Rolls Royce has decided that the electric Rolls Royce Phantom – 102EX – is not wanted by Rolls customers and won’t be made. Everyone’s at it – building electric cars, that is – and Rolls Royce are no different. They even put together an electric Rolls Royce Phantom for the Genevea Motor Show earlier this year. And in many ways [...]
Rolls Royce has launched the Rolls Royce Ghost EWB at the Shanghai Motor Show, featuring an extra 6″ in the back. Plus Rolls Royce Ghost China Edition revealed. Really, you wouldn’t expect Rolls Royce to release something as common as a long wheelbase Ghost, would you? No, this Ghost is an extended wheelbase Ghost – [...]
Rolls Royce will be showing the electric Phantom at this years Salon Privé and the Rolls Royce category in the Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance features a number of rare Rolls cars. The Geneva Motor Show 2011 saw Rolls Royce take the wraps off the biggest electric car, with the biggest bank of batteries, we’ve seen so far – the [...]
The electric Rolls Royce Phantom – Rolls Royce 102EX – is revealed in Geneva featuring two electric motors and a huge battery bank. Rolls Royce has taken the wraps of its experimental electric Phantom at Geneva – Rolls Royce 102EX – and they certainly haven’t done things by halves. Rolls Royce engineers have taken the regular engine out of [...]
Rolls Royce has built an electric Rolls Royce Phantom – Rolls Royce 102EX – to act as a testbed for a RR EV. The Electric Phantom will debut at Geneva. Eighteen months ago we ran a story headlined ‘Electric Rolls Royce Phantom Coming?’ after the man from Goodwood let slip at the Goodwood Revival that [...]
This week sees the 3rd Episode of the latest series of Top Gear, with a luxury car shootout – Mercedes S65, Bentley Mulsanne & Rolls Royce Ghost – and Jonathan Ross. As we said last week when Top Gear played host to Boris Becker as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car – he can’t [...]
Rolls Royce reveals a limited edition Phantom to commemorate the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy. Just 100 Rolls Royce Phantom Spirit of Ecstasy Centenary Collection will be made. We’re rather hoping Rolls Royce will stick to convention and not plaster the name of this limited edition Rolls Royce Phantom across the boot lid, because even the [...]
Rolls Royce are now planning additional models for the Rolls Royce Ghost – the Ghost LWB, Ghost DHC and Ghost Coupe. I know, you’re not exactly shocked to learn that Rolls Royce are planning on producing not just a LWB Ghost but also a Ghost Drophead Coupe and a Ghost Coupe. After all, we told [...]
Rolls Royce are working on a stretched version of the Ghost – The Rolls Royce Ghost LWB – will go on sale mid-2011. At first we didn’t really ‘get’ the Rolls Royce Ghost. It seemed very close to the Phantom in all it offered, particularly in size. And seeing it for the first time – [...]
BMW are recalling V8 and V12 BMWs and Rolls Royces to fix a potential problem with brake power assistance. We don’t tend to do every tuppeny-ha’penny recall on Cars UK. Any more than we do exotic car accidents. But some recalls affect so many people we do – occassionally – feel the need to do sensible reporting [...]
Geely has had a change of heart over the Geely GE – their Rolls Royce Phantom clone – and will reveal a facelifted version at the Beijing Motor Show It’s amazing how much things have moved on in the last twelve months. A year ago we reported that China’s Geely had become the latest Chinese car maker [...]
Mansory have created the Mansory Ghost, a beautifully tweaked but appallingly rendered and customised Rolls Royce Ghost. Let’s get it out of the way first. We love the Rolls Royce Ghost and think the only problem Rolls Royce will have with it is that it’s hard to justify the extra for the RR Phantom once you’ve checked out [...]
It appears that the plans for a MINI Limited Edition trimmed out by Rolls Royce – the ultimate MINI – have been given the go-ahead. So what have we had from MINI already this year? We’ve had news of the Coupe and Roadster at Frankfurt; we had the Camden and Mayfair back in May; the [...]
Rolls Royce are developing a hybrid version of the new RR Ghost, featuring the mild hybrid system from the BMW ActiveHybrid 7 Series. The reveal of the Rolls Royce Ghost was another of those long, drawn-out reveals that seem to be the norm these days. As far back as February we revealed the first official [...]
ROLLS-ROYCE TO UNVEIL GHOST AT FRANKFURT MOTOR SHOW 6 September 2009, Goodwood Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will unveil its new production model, Ghost, at the Frankfurt motor show on 15 September 2009. The car will be unveiled by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’ Chairman, Ian Robertson and CEO, Tom Purves at a press conference at 16.00 CET. INTRODUCTION [...]
Rolls Royce has finally officially revealed the Rolls Royce Ghost, with more details, images and video. I know, there’s been so much information on the RR Ghost, that you thought it already had been launched. But it hasn’t, except at a private launch in Cannes in July. But now – apart from the actual ‘in [...]
When we went off to Salon Prive last month for a day of lobster, champagne and exotic cars, we did piece on the Salon Prive Classic Cars. And in amongst the Classic Cars was a 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 ‘Jarvis Torpedo’, which RM Auctions were displaying as a prelude to their ‘Automobiles of London’ Auction [...]
If ever I took my Dad out to an event and he enjoyed himself, he always said the same thing – “That was a good do. Thanks”. And so it is with Salon Prive – a ‘Good Do’, thanks. And it really is. Yes, the price of entry is a somewhat eye-watering £125-200 (depending on [...]
As is the way with car launches, information on the Rolls Royce Ghost has been trickling out for months now. Since the first reveal of what was then the RR4 / EX200 in February at Geneva, we’ve had umpteen RR Ghost Spy Shots and been spoon-fed information on the RR Ghost’ Suspension and its mechanicals. [...]
