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 [...]

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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 - [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Picture a new MINI and what do you think of? A small three-door hatch that’s popular with both driving enthusiasts and the latte-sipping set alike? Or perhaps you associate BMW’s successful small car brand with young professionals who want a practical, economical city car, but can’t bear motoring around in anything as prosaic as [...]

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I’ll be honest with you: I hate the BMW X5. It’s large, it’s thirsty, it’s butt-ugly and I’d never buy one. But whenever I clamber aboard a V8-equipped X5 4.8i and stab that plank-like accelerator, I can’t help but swoon at the sound of that glorious German bent-eight.

Unfortunately, it seems BMW buyers around the [...]

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And you thought $1.70 was bad.

A new report issued by the Australian research institute CSIRO warns that the price of a litre of petrol could soar as high as $8 AUD within the next decade if current fuel consumption and production trends continue.

The aptly-named Fuel For Thought study believes that unless something is done [...]

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Pininfarina have confirmed that they will be using a Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe as the basis for their latest bespoke creation.

Named Hyperion, the custom-built convertible will be the Italian firm’s third such project for a private client, with the other two being James Glickenhaus’s Enzo-based P4/5 and Peter Kalikow’s Ferrari 612 “K”. Pininfarina have declined [...]

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Rolls-Royce’s imminent expansion of their lineup is expected to at least double overall vehicle sales for the British automaker, with Rolls-Royce CEO Ian Robertson pinning much of the company’s commercial hopes on the upcoming RR4 ‘Baby Phantom’.

The so-called “entry level” model will still be far out of reach of the common man, but at an [...]

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There’s a saying that goes, “It’s better to be a rich man’s dog than poor.” In Japan, this is doubly true as dogs live the kind of pampered life that those of us toiling away in west can only dream of. To further accommodate the lupine, Japanese auto manufacturers have gone completely to the dogs.

Take [...]

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