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Rolls-Royce Phantom review
What is it?
Since the first Phantom appeared in 1925, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has had its ups and downs. When the outgoing Phantom appeared at the stroke of midnight on January 1st 2003, the company even called it ‘the last great automotive adventure’.
Maybe that should have been penultimate, because we’ve just driven the new car, and as internal combustion most likely won’t be around in another 14 years’ time, this really could be The One.
Rolls-Royce reckons the Phantom is the barometer by which everyone else in the world of expensive luxury goods measures themselves, so the bar isn’t just raised here, it’s bejewelled and platinum-plated. You know when someone claims to be ‘the Rolls-Royce of watches/furniture/granite-kitchen-worktops’? Well, this is the Rolls-Royce of Rolls-Royces.
Rolls says the Phantom's new spaceframe structure is 30 per cent more rigid than the previous model, a figure that rises significantly in key areas such as suspension and gearbox. This new structure, coincidentally, offers sufficient flexibility to underpin the next wave of Rolls product, its SUV included.
The chassis gets an all-new suspension setup, with a double wishbone configuration on the front, a five-link axle at the rear, adaptive dampers, and active anti-roll bars. It’s also the latest car to benefit from four-wheel steering, whose three degrees of counter-steer help shrink the car’s heft at higher speeds, as well as improving low-speed agility. The Phant’s air springs feature bigger chambers than on any previous Rolls, and the tyres are specially developed Continentals whose structure incorporates 2kg of sound absorbent material.
There’s 6mm-thick, dual-layer double glazing windows all-round. The body-in-white features the largest-ever cast aluminium joints to enhance sound insulation, and overall the Phantom carries more than 130kg of sound-deadening material. There’s double skin alloy within the floor and on the front bulkhead, into which a foam and felt layer is squeezed. There’s more insulating material in the headliner, doors, and boot cavity.
All of this contributes to the car’s 2,560kg kerbweight (2,610kg if you go for the long ’un, which adds 220mm to the wheelbase), but that’s surely an irelevance. As well as monitoring body and wheel acceleration and steering inputs, a stereo camera mounted in the windscreen reads the road ahead to effectively erase surface unpleasantness before it's allowed to upset the occupants’ Dom Perignon. The new Phantom also features so many assistance systems that the heart of its electronic architecture is the single largest component produced by the BMW Group.
“Nothing in life is perfect but the Phantom gets close. An imperious, impeccably engineered automotive experience.”
The Phantom ‘experience’ is as much about the tactility of the door handles as it is how effortlessly this thing moves. And, of course, how it looks as it scythes through lesser traffic. It’s only when you follow another one that you grasp what a uniquely fabulous looking machine this car really is.
Design director Giles Taylor is a meticulous operator, and from the reimagined Parthenon grille to the tighter, faster rear end - whose surfaces benefit from superforming to achieve perfect radii - this is an awesome motor car to behold. Or better still, to travel in. As expensive as it is (from, gulp, £360,000) there’s entertainment for everyone here.
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Those wheels ruin everything.
Beautiful big car! Rudi.
🎉❤😮😊
Autre chose qui est dommage c'est qu'elle n'a plus la même chute de toit arrière qu'elle avait quelques années en arrière, là c'est plutôt façon Ghost il me semble, je préfèrerais la chute très british d'avant
The interior is cute.
NICE CAR
The Tattoo in your hand suits a Harley Davidson bike💀not a Rolls Royce !
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Yes indeed.
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Have you ever heard about using a wide angle lens in order to let the viewer see what it actually looks like? I think video recording this high-end car with a normal lens is nothing. Thank you.
La phantom est sublime comme toujours !
Par contre, les roues façon K 2000 à ce niveau de prix !
C'est beau sur les répliques Firebird K 2000 mais là...
Niveau jantes, ils ont fait mieux par le passé, ce duo jantes/enjoliveurs noir, faut aimer
i haven't decided yet to buy this 2024 rollce royce or toyota corolla. its hard to choose between them
corolla
This 2024 Rolls Royce, corolla is mid.
LOL
I like it❤
Realy I like it
Love the car.... hate the background music
This reminds me of the 1970’s movie The Car.
dream car
"This viewer loves the idea of having World Class Jazz & Pop Vocalist + Songwriter Ms. Angelina Jordan Sing Music 4 Rolls Co."
Amazing 😍
How much for this amazing gem on 4 wheels?
VERY GOOD VIP
🎉❤ like this car 🚗
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I would guess it to cost about $700,000.00 US dollars.
fully loaded probably. starts at 495k
Very nice and elegant car.., until you put about 50k miles on it and all he'll breaks lose.
Transmission problems, oil leaks, electrical problems, front suspension issues...
Yep, and of course all AFTER the warranty expires.
Got DEEP pockets? Go for it, otherwise head to the nearest Lexus, Toyota, Honda..., dealer!
Source: Former owner.
Thank you for the very good advice. I will cancel my order immediately.
@@alexnelson9512 Unless you have deep pockets...
Which I do, but not for a 100+K car that looks and rides good.., for a minute!
Sold mine, and did tell the new buyer about the problems, she didn't seem to care!
Another day in paradise!
@@allan9603
Evidently, she will have to learn the hard way - perhaps she has a very deep purse! Anyway, they are not Rolls-Royce, they are BMW. They are now nothing more than a very expensive illusion. Okay, they are still made within the UK, but they are owned by BMW and have a BMW engine within them.
@@alexnelson9512so original RR doesnt exist anymore?
if thats true, for a car this expensive thats deplorable.
500 number like ❤
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