Articles about Rolls Royce Phantom

Trick or treat!

Yes, Rolls-Royce is going to feature heavily here. Weirdly, the tradition of naming Rollers after ghostly apparitions came about by accident, over a century ago.In 1907, Rolls-Royce's marketing boss Claude Johnson had one of the company's new

Do you remember these?

Goldfinger: The big man's 1937 Roller isn't just transport-it's how he smuggles the gold into Europe.Thunderball: Also in Goldfinger, but the baby blue 'Stang looks even cooler in the hands of Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.On Her

Just don’t look at the time

Sometimes, even the mere sight of traffic can stress you out. We're certain we've all been there-stuck helplessly on EDSA, surrounded by the sight of crawling cars and the sounds on incessant honking from motorists incapable of accepting their

Check out that Pulsar Headliner...

We're all used to seeing the Rolls-Royce Starlight Headliner by now, aren't we? Well, in pictures, at least. Anyway, check out what the luxury carmaker has done to it in this new time-inspired Phantom Tempus Collection...Apparently, this

All because the customer was so inspired by a rocking chair...

Given the opportunity to have literally billions of dollars, most of us sharing this corner of the Internet would probably commission some sort of one-of-a-kind dream car.American Jack Boyd Smith-owner of the JBS Collection of classic cars-

While the rest of us were customizing our Lego car kits

The team of engineers, designers and craftspeople that personalize newly purchased Rolls-Royces are known as the 'Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective.' Fancy name, right? Anyway, while most of us wore new holes in our sofa cushions during 2020, the Bespoke Collective lot

Automotive icons like you’ve never seen them before

As Singer is to the 911, so Gateway is to the Bronco. And at the start of 2020, we first got news of its intentions to fit the rather excellent old Bronco with a Roush-tuned Ford 5.0-liter V8. These

And it starts at a whopping P31.8 million

This is a new 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V. A restoration of one of the world's very finest motor cars, here packing nothing more polluting than the moral superiority its lucky new owner will exude.Because it's fully-electric. First

When you arrive in a Rolls, you’ve truly arrived

The maker of the finest production luxury cars money can buy, and therefore the boujiest car brand on the planet. Rolls-Royce itself says it has no competitors. We'd normally snub such hubris, but annoyingly, it's right. It's the

Champagne chiller, anyone?

Luxury SUVs are ten a penny these days, but Bentley still has a few tricks up its sleeve courtesy of the firm's Mulliner department, jam-packed with coachbuilding and wish-fulfillment specialists.The hamper setup isn't your traditional wicker trunk-

It's a brand that's quite protective of its image

As you can imagine, when Rolls-Royce is making eye-wateringly expensive land yachts for the world's elite, some pretty crazy stats, facts, and stories come out of this rather unique process. And you're not wrong. So we've collated

Well, some are definitely more expensive than others

Horacio Pagani once told Top Gear that the Huayra was really a collection of ideas he wanted to try in the earlier Zonda, but at the time his first supercar was being designed, the material technology simply didn't exist. When the

The 1% know what they want

Here are some of the best creations to come out of Rolls-Royce's Bespoke division last year:Commissioned by a Swedish entrepreneur, the Million Stitch Phantom was inspired by a special rose grown only at Rolls-Royce's Goodwood HQ. As

They’re big, bad, and in your face

Sort of defies design logic, the new RS6. It's brash, it's ultra-aggressive, it's festooned with slashes and lines and creases and bumps, and the grille is straight from Audi's XXL wardrobe. And yet-while you'd struggle

Among other things, it sits lower than the stock model by 40mm

Hang on. Before we do anything else here-just look at the size of those wheels. Those are 24-inch jobs that German tuner SPOFEC has created in partnership with Vossen, and they apparently come in 72 different colors. Twenty-four! Seventy-

The proceeds will go to charity

A Rolls-Royce ought to be in a dark color, right? A murky grey. A deep black. Some sort of Navy blue. Something with class.Well, here's a reasonably bright red Phantom. And it still carries itself with an enormous amount

How much would any of these sell for?

Keen readers of TopGear.com might recognize this car. The Zonda Aether is such a special one-off that we decided it warranted a whole article to itself.Click these blue words to read all about it, or even to just sit

To be auctioned later this year

The Rolls-Royce Phantom is a rather special car. The extended wheelbase version starts at £432,000 (P30 million), for Pete's sake, and that's before you've even specced the gold-plated Spirit of Ecstasy or the lambswool carpets. Admit

SUVs rule

Rolls-Royce is 115 years old, and has never been hotter than it is right now. Okay, those aren't Rolls-Royce's exact words, but that's the gist of the news from its Goodwood headquarters today. The sales results for

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