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 […]
Top Gear: Albania, RR Ghost, Merc S65, Mulsanne & Jonathan Ross
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 Ghost LWB, Ghost DHC & Ghost Coupe planned
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 Ghost LWB Spied
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 – […]
Rolls Royce: China to be bigger market than UK
Rolls Royce sales are up 146% this year and China looks set to be their second biggest market after the USA. If ever you needed a sigh of the rise and rise of astronomical wealth in China it’s the revealtion that Rolls Royce expects China to overtake the UK in market size this year, and […]
Mansory Rolls Royce Ghost. Ugh!! (except the oily bits)
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 […]
Rolls Royce Ghost Hybrid
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 […]
Electric Rolls Royce Ghost/Phantom coming?
A Rolls Royce spokesman has said that they are looking at the viability of an electric RR Ghost or RR Phantom. We’ve got used to one car maker or another rolling out a hybrid or plug in of some description on an almost daily basis. From the stalwarts of electric cars like Reva with the […]
Rolls Royce Ghost Launch – watch it LIVE on Cars UK
Cars UK will be hosting the LIVE launch of the new Rolls Royce Ghost. Back in July, we hosted the launch of the new Jaguar XJ live on Cars UK. And thousands of you turned up to watch Jay Leno launch what is probably the most important Jaguar in at least a generation. So when […]
Rolls Royce Ghost launch Press Release
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 […]