Rolls-Royce’s new ‘entry-level’ limo will still cost you S$1.5 million
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Rolls-Royce's new 'entry-level' limo will notwithstanding cost yous S$one.5 meg
Oddly plenty, despite its impressive size and price tag, information technology's a remarkably restrained and relatively low-key.
The new Rolls-Royce Ghost Extended. (Photograph: Rolls-Royce)
13 Jun 2022 06:56AM (Updated: 05 Jul 2022 02:10AM)
One of the principle guiding lights behind the evolution of the new Ghost limousine, Rolls-Royce says, is the idea of "post-opulence". Modesty and minimalism being the designers' watchwords with the 2nd-generation "infant" of the Rolls-Royce family.
While the carmaker is naturally loathe to admit it, for all sorts of obvious reasons, the new auto is the inferior analogue to the Phantom, and the entry point to the Rolls-Royce saloon lineup. Officially, the Ghost isn't an entry-level Rolls-Royce, merely merely ane that is a bit less formal, a chip less buttoned-upwardly and perfect for either being driven or being driven around in.
Of course, the words "entry-level" and "minimal" seem a bit foreign to utilise when referring to information technology, considering the new Ghost all the same costs well over a one thousand thousand dollars, measures over 5m long and if you accept the financial wherewithal, could significantly add to that aforementioned price tag by getting its customisation division Bespoke to whip upwardly some choice bits unique to your auto.
Just to requite you some idea of what we're talking almost, the test unit nosotros were handed the keys to was an instance of a Ghost Extended, the moniker referring to its 170mm longer wheelbase, all to the benefit of rear seat passengers, giving information technology "the most rear legroom in its segment".
That item car measures a piffling under five.8m long, and with a judicious smattering of options (including folding tables for the rear seats, monogrammed headrests and a Bespoke dashboard clock), its on-the-route price is around South$1.viii million, some Southward$400,000 over its base price of S$1.iv million.
Information technology'southward worth noting that the optional extras alone on this item Ghost Extended could near have bought you a flagship seven Series saloon from Rolls-Royce's sister brand BMW.
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The indicate nosotros're trying to make here is that everything is relative. Context, as you lot'll know, is for kings. The Ghost'south bigger brother, the Phantom Extended, retails for not a penny less than S$2 million, though realistically, if you're in the marketplace for one, you lot'd best exist prepared to set aside roughly South$two.5 million of your hard-earned dollars.
Anyway, the Ghost Extended, and by extension (pun intended) its smaller sibling the standard-wheelbase Ghost, are fabulous representations of luxury... and also fabulous representations of value.
Yep, really. Value. You see, the Ghost and pretty much whatever other Rolls-Royce is worth more money than what some people volition earn in a lifetime, merely there'southward few who would argue that the cars to come out of Goodwood, England don't feel like a 1000000 bucks… which they incidentally practice.
For starters, the level of particular lavished on the new Ghost borders on the ridiculous. The leather upholstery and wood trim are impeccable, of course, but it'south the little things that are even more than worthy of mention.
The opening/closing of the air-conditioning vents are washed via quaint "organ stop" plungers whose activity tin can best be described every bit silken with just the right amount of resistance. And how each door has its own set of gyroscopes and servos to ensure the self-opening function has a consequent swing strength/speed, no matter the incline the auto is parked on.
Another one of the new Ghost's hidden features is a small break damper mounted on the upper part of the suspension'south wishbone, a small merely integral part of the auto's Planar Suspension organization.
According to Jon Simms, the new Ghost's technology lead, the ride quality of a modern Rolls-Royce is now able to about eliminate medium- to large-sized impacts, but that left the loftier-frequency fizz when rolling over anything other than marble-shine roads even more apparent.
The outcome is that the new Ghost positively glides. To be clear, at that place'due south no wallow in the new Ghost's treatment. At that place'due south scroll and pitch, though that's to be expected when the automobile'due south remit is primarily biased toward comfort, but mostly because information technology also weighs shut to 2.5 tonnes.
It'southward the sum full of these small, seemingly insignificant things that makes driving the Ghost, and of course, riding around in 1, such a tranquil experience. Confronting any other modern luxury car, there'due south a refreshing lack of buttons, levers and other things to fiddle with.
At that place are no selectable driving modes (no sport mode, because that's probably a dingy word in Goodwood); no way of selecting the adaptive dampers' firmness; and at that place aren't even any paddles for you lot to manually riff through the gears.
That's taken care of by an electronic butler of sorts, with the former utilising cameras that scan the surface ahead to prepare the suspension to quell bumps, and the latter using data from the sabbatum-nav system to automatically select the best gear for the route ahead.
Of grade, some would bemoan the lack of control in the Ghost, merely when you're a captain of manufacture/oligarch/potentate, yous're probably used to having someone take care of the little things for you already.
Or, if yous're the chauffeur of said helm of industry/oligarch/potentate, the last thing you'd want is to accidentally stick the car in Sport and cause your employer's head to be wedged firmly into the headrests. This is non particularly desirable, peculiarly non when your employer likewise has the ability to see you lot blindfolded in front of a wall riddled with bullet holes.
But should the need to hustle arise for whatever reason (rushing to the opera, escaping the proletariat, etc) you lot'll notice that the Ghost is as well supremely practiced in that department.
Power comes from a 6.75-litre V12 with a mighty 563hp/850Nm output, though despite those sports car numbers, the Ghost'south performance is more regal than explosive. Push the throttle pedal deep into the deep-pile lambswool carpet and at that place'southward a noticeable lack of noise, vibrations or other such drama.
It's not entirely unlike being borne on a gust of wind, and if you want to become a trivial more than automotive virtually things, not entirely unlike being in an electric car… which incidentally is something that Rolls-Royce will somewhen have in their lineup.
If all that sounds similar the Ghost, particularly in Extended form, is seriously encroaching on territory currently occupied by Rolls-Royce'south flagship production, the Phantom, you wouldn't be too far off the mark.
Against other "regular" flagship saloons (say, a BMW seven Serial or a Mercedes-Benz S-Class), the Ghost is in a league of its own, but against the Phantom, information technology just seems that much more than subdued.
Where the Phantom is upright and slab-sided, the Ghost is sleeker and its nose is canted backwards. In isolation, the Ghost is yet an imperious thing, but seen in context of the Phantom, it's far less ostentatious.
Suffice it to say, if your neighbourhood was populated with far less elevated vehicles, the new Ghost would however stand out, if nothing else, by virtue of its sheer bulk. However, if the reverse were truthful, you might merely laissez passer the new Ghost by without even registering its presence.
See? Context and relativity.
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