Full details: Rolls-Royce Ghost
All-new 'baby' Rolls finally revealed in full
While a £200k saloon could hardly be called a mainstream or budget offering, the Ghost is nevertheless quite a departure for Rolls. While the traditional Rolls-Royce offerings have largely ignored the temptations of cutting-edge electronic trickery and in-car entertainment, the Ghost enthusiastically embraces them. There's a head-up display, lane departure warning, automatically dipping headlights and active cruise control.
There's also a night vision camera hidden in the grille that can detect pedestrians up to 300 metres away, thus minimising the likelihood of the butler having to wipe smudged people off the Rolls's bonnet.
The underpinnings of the Ghost come from a modified version of the BMW 7-series, so although the body is strongly reminiscent of the Phantom (albeit 400mm shorter) the aluminium spaceframe of its bigger brother is ditched in favour of a simpler steel monocoque. The air supension with its electronically variable damping works via double wishbones at the front and a multi-link set-up at the rear.
The Ghost might have a lot in common with a BMW under the skin, but its bodywork is thoroughbred Rolls-Royce, with its rakish A-pillar, short front overhang, prominent grille and tapering tail. As with the teak rear 'deck' on the Phantom Drophead, Rolls is keen to emphasise the link between its latest creation and the world of Luxury yachts, describing the Ghost as having "majestic 'Yacht Line' styling" and an "elevated prow".
The Rolls-Royce Ghost will be on show in the metal at the Frankfurt motor show next week, and we can no doubt expect coupe and convertible versions at some point in the not too distant future.
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I want one.
Shows Bentley how it should be done. The designer of the Mulsanne and , even more, the clown in senior management who signed off the Bentley Mulsanne, should look at this, realise that he has been promoted to his own level of incompetance and resign immediately.
The new Ghost is a complete design, with lots of RR DNA in its design, while also being distinctive and desirable.
Bloody powerful too. It is a little vulgar for a Rolls Royce to be bragging about its power output, but 560+ bhp is plenty..
Good effort guys. I assume this will be built in Sussex?
k me look at the size of that' way that a Phantom does.
Sometimes, less time is more money.
I like the idea that this is effectively an RR 'sports saloon', leaving the Phantom as not quite as quick, the wafter of the range.
12.5 Gb must be a typo though? I've got more than that in my pocket and you wouldn't get very much at all in there...
Suicide doors are rear-hinged doors, hence the back doors are suicide doors.
You get clamshell doors when your back doors are suicide doors and your front doors are normal ones.
Hence they open like a "clamshell".
2dr cars with suicide doors or so aren't clamshell ones.
So iirc you weren't wrong in the first place.
@ the "12GB", that's ridiculous, I've got a 30€ 16GB USB stick... (so basicly a "SSD")
My 307 SW had a bigger hard drive.
Ok, irrelevant detail, but they shouldn't mention that in a press release. It's like saying "you can adjust the wiper interval in three steps".
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