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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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Maybach showed us their Landaulet last year, a super luxury limousine that featured an open topped rear section inspired by limousines of days gone by. The general consensus at the time was that Maybach were desperately trying to impress the ‘well heeled’ as the Marque struggled with an uninspiring product line-up that was being comprehensively [...]

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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 [...]

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We all knew 2007 was a good year for the car industry. In Australia, the one million sales in a calendar year mark was passed for the first time in history, with many manufacturers posting record sales results in this country. Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz car division has issued a press release claiming that sales of its [...]

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We’ve spent months looking a spy photos and taking in any available detail, real or imagined that hit the internet and now its finally official. Hyundai have unveiled their 2009 Genesis luxury sedan in time for its official debut in Detroit next week. Unfortunately, at this stage, Australia is not on the list of destinations [...]

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