2010 Rolls Royce Ghost Promotional Video Released

2010 Rolls Royce Ghost Promotional Video Released

ROLLS ROYCE has released a promotional video of the upcoming entry-level Ghost, despite the luxury ‘Roller’ being still a year away from its showroom debut.

In the video, Dan Balmer, the new model’s Product Manager offers a ‘walk through’ of the 7 Series-based Ghost.

Recently, the British luxury marque confirmed the big V12 will develop 420kW and [...]

Rolls-Royce Ghost/200EX Configurator Goes Live

Rolls-Royce Ghost/200EX Configurator Goes Live

AS A PART OF its dedicated website for the upcoming Ghost luxury sedan, Rolls-Royce has released an online configurator showing you - the common man - just what the brand-new Rolls might look like in your choice of paint, cowhide and wood trim.

Curiously, the website doesn’t refer to the car as the Ghost, but rather [...]

Rolls-Royce To Collaborate With MINI On Luxury Hatchback?

Rolls-Royce To Collaborate With MINI On Luxury Hatchback?

RUMOURS ABOUND OF a special-edition MINI model that will be given the bespoke treatment by Rolls-Royce’s talented team of trimmers, bringing more than a dash of premium panache to the chic retro classic.

MINI’s customisation options for the MINI range are already extensive, but a Rolls-trimmed model is reportedly under serious consideration by the brand’s top [...]

2010 Rolls Royce Ghost To Spawn Variants

2010 Rolls Royce Ghost To Spawn Variants

BRITISH LUXURY MARQUE Rolls Royce expects its upcoming 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost to nearly double sales for the company, but it won’t be kicking back while the money rolls in.

In a recent chat with UK car rag Autocar, the Ghost’s exterior stylist, Andreas Thurner, revealed that the prestige manufacturer is working on a family [...]

2010 Rolls Royce Ghost Takes Waftability To New Heights With Intelligent Suspension System

2010 Rolls Royce Ghost Takes Waftability To New Heights With Intelligent Suspension System

ROLLS ROYCE HAS high hopes for its soon-to-be-released ‘entry level’ model, the Ghost. Due to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September with sales commencing not long after, Rolls Royce is confident that the all-new model is capable of nearly doubling sales for the Goodwood-based manufacturer.

But while it may become the volume seller [...]

2010 Rolls Royce Ghost Captured In Production Form: Spy Shots

2010 Rolls Royce Ghost Captured In Production Form: Spy Shots

WE’VE KNOWN ABOUT it for quite some time: first as the RR4, then the 200EX and now, finally, as the Ghost. It’s Rolls Royce’s newest addition to its stable of high-end luxury sedans and, as these spy photos show, there’s not a whole lot that’s changed in the transition from concept to production car.

Wheels, bumpers, [...]

2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost Officially Announced At Shanghai

2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost Officially Announced At Shanghai

Rolls-Royce’s latest project has gone by many names. First called the RR4, the little sister to the marque’s gargantuan Phantom was then re-branded the 200EX when it launched in concept form at the Geneva Auto Show in March.

Now, at the Shanghai auto show,  Rolls-Royce has announced its real name. Never mind the 200EX plates on [...]

2009 Geely GE: Words Cannot Describe The Torture

2009 Geely GE: Words Cannot Describe The Torture

Words cannot describe the horror… but we’ll try. Geely - one of China’s larger carmakers - has bent over and pulled out the Geely GE, an achingly terrible yet plainly obvious copy of the Rolls Royce Phantom.

Presumably intended for the Chinese businessman not quite rich enough for the real deal – or any other foreign [...]

Rolls Royce Shares Details Of RR4 / 200EX 6.6 Litre Turbo V12

Rolls Royce Shares Details Of RR4 / 200EX 6.6 Litre Turbo V12

Following its debut at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month, Rolls Royce has released details of the powertrain for the RR4 production version of its 200EX concept.

The new Rolls saloon will feature a unique 6.6 litre turbocharged V12 and eight-speed gearbox.

The production version of the car, which should remain faithful to the concept, will - [...]

Rolls Royce 200EX ‘Baby’ To Lead Into Coupe And Convertible Variants?

Rolls Royce 200EX ‘Baby’ To Lead Into Coupe And Convertible Variants?

Despite the fact we’re yet to see the final production version of the ‘Mini-Rolls’ Rolls Royce 200EX concept, the rumour mill is already working overtime on the idea of a convertible and coupe based on the same platform.  And why not?

Inspired by the Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead, our (quick and lazy) concept illustration offers an idea [...]

First Details Of Rolls Royce 200EX Emerge

First Details Of Rolls Royce 200EX Emerge

Looking for that certain something to help show up your neighbours? Is an S class or 7 series just too common? Friends, Rolls Royce has just the thing for you.

Revealed two weeks ahead of its Geneva Motor Show debut, the 200EX concept is to become the company’s entry-level model. Don’t think that means it’ll be [...]

Project Khan Tricks-Up Rolls-Royce Phantom

Project Khan Tricks-Up Rolls-Royce Phantom

Just days after we brought you news of the new Rolls-Royce Phantom, premium UK design house Project Khan has released its take on the luxury four-door.

Project Khan somehow manages to add even more prestige and exclusivity to a vehicle that was hardly lacking in either department. Perhaps even more surprisingly for an aftermarket-tuned prestige vehicle, it’s [...]

2009 Rolls Royce Phantom Details Released

2009 Rolls Royce Phantom Details Released

Rolls-Royce has taken the wraps off its updated 2009 model Phantom and Phantom Extended Wheelbase as it looks to continue the success of the 2008 model.

Changes are admittedly minimal, but any extra gear is surely appreciated when you’re dropping over half a million Aussie dollars to get one.

The most notable addition is the same front-end [...]

New Information On The Rolls Royce RR4

New Information On The Rolls Royce RR4

Relativity is an amazing thing. It allows you to apply terms to things which people wouldn’t normally consider appropriate. A case in point is the upcoming ‘baby’ Rolls Royce, known as the RR4, which is reportedly to be badged the Silver Ghost.

When you’re told that the Silver Ghost will be a good half-metre shorter than the Phantom, [...]

Rolls-Royce Reports A Record Sales Performance In 2008

Rolls-Royce Reports A Record Sales Performance In 2008

Rolls-Royce has announced that it enjoyed strong demand for its product during 2008, so much so, that it recorded a 20 percent increase in sales over 2007 (1,212 sales compared to 1,010 in 2007). This performance was the fifth consecutive annual sales increase for the super luxury manufacturer.

As you would expect with a product as [...]

Ferrari, Land Rover, Rolls-Royce & Suzuki Not Going To 2009 Detroit Auto Show

Ferrari, Land Rover, Rolls-Royce & Suzuki Not Going To 2009 Detroit Auto Show

It used to be North America’s premier motor show, a celebration of all things four-wheeled held in the capital city of car-making, Detroit. Nowadays things are a little different. The economic slowdown has put the pinch on several automakers, discouraging the launch of new products and lessening the justification for spending hundreds of thousands of [...]

Pininfarina Hyperion Coupe Revealed

Pininfarina Hyperion Coupe Revealed

Though we know which Rolls Royce the Hyperion is based on, the Phantom Drophead Coupe, you could be forgiven for thinking this one-off creation from Pininfarina is an entirely new car - such is the level of engineering evident. While this styling may not be to everyone’s taste, the Hyperion is a class act and [...]

Rolls-Royce reveal first sketches of new RR4

Rolls-Royce reveal first sketches of new RR4

Can’t quite come up with the million dollar plus price tag for the magnificent Rolls-Royce Phantom? Perhaps you are tired of waiting in line for the incredibly popular super-luxury sedan that has put Rolls-Royce back on the map? Well fear not folks, there is a smaller and cheaper Roller in the pipeline. Just don’t be [...]

Rolls Royce Phantom coupe Geneva unveiling video

Rolls Royce Phantom coupe Geneva unveiling video

Rolls-Royce used the Geneva Motor Show as the venue for the debut of their stunning Phantom Coupe. Beautiful from every angle the Phantom Coupe has been designed with the driver in mind rather than passengers.

Designed to cover great distances effortlessly, the Coupé is powered by the Phantom’s 6.75-litre V12 that produces 337kW/453hp, 720 Nm of [...]

2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe revealed

2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe revealed

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has announced its intention to unveil its new Phantom Coupé at the 78th International Geneva Motor Show on Tuesday, 4 March 2008 – and what a stunner it is!

Rolls-Royce are touting the new Coupé as the most driver-orientated model in the Phantom line-up. They say that they have achieved this whilst still [...]

Rolls-Royce record bumper sales in 2007

Rolls-Royce record bumper sales in 2007

While 2007 was a slow year for Maybach, it was a bumper year for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, with sales up by 25 percent when compared to 2006. Rolls-Royce managed to shift 1010 cars in 2006, which marks the first time annual sales have breached the four figure mark and is the fourth successive sales increase [...]

2009 BMW 7-Series chassis to be used by Rolls-Royce

2009 BMW 7-Series chassis to be used by Rolls-Royce

The guys over at Leftlane have come across some interesting news regarding the next generation BMW 7-Series, due for release during the first half of 2009. The new Bimmer will be sporting an all-new chassis, which is expected, but this chassis will not be exclusively for BMW’s use. We can expect to find the new [...]

Rolls-Royce Tungsten limited edition

Rolls-Royce Tungsten limited edition

It is a limited edition kind of week and following hard on the heels of the Lotus Elise S 40th anniversary edition and the Land Rover Defender SVX comes an altogether different and rather more expensive beast. Rolls-Royce have just announced their Phantom Tungsten edition.

The exterior treatment mirrors the 101EX concept (we’ll see it [...]

Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe video

Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe video

Most of us can look forward to picking up our first 2007 Phantom Drophead Coupe for $40k in about 25 years time when servicing costs take the gloss off the seemingly cheap price. For now we will just have to make do with Top Gear’s James May and his take on what the new drop [...]

Rolls-Royce announce plans to expand production

Rolls-Royce announce plans to expand production

Those bespoke folk from Rolls-Royce at Goodwood in the UK have announced that they have confirmed development plans for their headquarters and manufacturing facility. A new model series in the Rolls-Royce line-up has been approved and this along with the huge popularity of the super expensive Phantom necessitates improved production facilities to deal with [...]

Rolls-Royce on a roll with sales up 22 percent

Rolls-Royce on a roll with sales up 22 percent

While the folks at Maybach dwell on better times, those dapper folk from Goodwood in the UK have broken out the crystal flutes and are busy toasting their recent sales success. Take some English old-school establishment, mix in a healthy dose of German engineering and it seems you can have a sales success – not [...]

Rolls Royce announce Phantom four seat coupe

Rolls Royce announce Phantom four seat coupe

Those bespoke folk in Goodwood England have just announced a coupe addition to their Phantom range due to hit the streets in 2008. Basically a production version of Rolls-Royce’s two-door, four-seat experimental car the 101EX launched at the Geneva motor show in 2006, production is scheduled to begin around mid next year. It will [...]

Rolls Royce opens new Shanghai showroom on the back of record sales

Rolls Royce opens new Shanghai showroom on the back of record sales

It’s been tough in Shanghai for the super rich recently. Bored with AUD400k AMG’s and with nowhere to drive the Enzo without breaking the rims the search has been on for a suitable super luxo barge with a decent local showroom equipped with one of those fancy Italian coffee makers.

So, it was not surprising [...]

Rolls Royce Phantom Silver limited edition

Rolls Royce Phantom Silver limited edition

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famous Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Rolls Royce have released a limited edition version of their Phantom and called it the Phantom Silver. You may be thinking that a car like this is not really relevant in the ‘real world’ inhabited by the average person and you’re probably [...]

Koenigsegg Biofuel Top Gear crash

Koenigsegg Biofuel Top Gear crash

A one-off $1.5 million biofuel powered Koenigsegg CCXR has been crashed into a ditch. The 760Kw mega supercar was crashed while travelling between photographic locations for Top Gear.

No, it wasn’t Jeremy, James or Richard driving but none other than a senior engineer from Koenigsegg who was provided with the car to ensure it returned [...]

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