With pre-production Ghost models already moving on the new assembly line at Rolls-Royce HQ near Goodwood, the company is clearly feeling more relaxed about the activities of its test prototypes.
This Ghost was snapped as it waited in the line for the cross channel ferry at Calais, virtually camo-free apart from a painted grille surround - which we expect to be chromified as per the 200EX Geneva show car – and some black electrical tape over the badging.
The eagerly-anticipated new 5.4m ‘baby’ model from Rolls is expected to make quite a stir when it finally goes on sale in the last few months of this year. It is powered by a brand new 6.6-litre turbocharged V12 making in excess of 500bhp, coupled to an 8-speed ZF gearbox – so it’s likely to be a hoot to drive.
PH (Garlick and Chris-R) paid an ‘official’ visit to the gentle-folk at Rolls-Royce late last week, partly to say thanks for the loan of their fabulous Phantom Coupe (which they bravely handed over for our recent Sunday Service without a trace of visible trepidation) and partly to suck-up on behalf of our Sunday Service congregation.
There’s a great big car-park at Rolls’s Goodwood HQ that would lend itself marvellously to a Service later this summer, particularly as the factory will by then have re-opened for tours of the new Ghost production time.
As w speak we haven’t quite persuaded our new friends that we know how to behave ‘in company’, but we’re working on it…
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