Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, Rolls-Royce, Special/Limited Editions
Rolls-Royce does another special edition Phantom, this time in Sapphire
Click above for a high-resolution gallery of the Rolls-Royce Sapphire
The bespoke department at Rolls-Royce has come up with another special edition Phantom to go along with the already released Phantom Pearl, Phantom Silver, and Phantom Tungsten. This one is the Phantom Sapphire, and unlike its rarefied stablemates, it gets built on the long wheelbase spaceframe.
The Milori Sapphire exterior wraps itself around two options of interior treatment: navy blue leather with seashell highlights, or seashell leather with navy blue highlights, and each is finished off with walnut burr veneer inlaid with a diamond-pattern. For those in the back enjoying themselves, a cool box below the rear seats will chill two bottles of bubbly in an aluminum billet receptacle. When it is time to imbibe, the parcel shelf hides hand-engraved crystal tumblers, and time is kept with a Rolls-Royce clock set with a diamond-shaped sapphire. And for the driver – who should never be left out of events like this – a Conway Stewart fountain pen set and solid silver key fobs that come in a lacquered, walnut veneer box. The price: No object. Thanks for the tip, James!
Gallery: Rolls-Royce Sapphire Edition
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
waiownsyou 4:36PM (12/26/2008)
They're all the freakin' same with different colors! FFS
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Mobius_1 5:36PM (12/26/2008)
Couldn't you get a Phantom in any colour you specified anyways?
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Flashpoint 5:37PM (12/26/2008)
If I had $500,000 right now, I'd take a Maybach instead. The Phantom is nice but its so technologicaly inferior due to the fact its mostly designed by BMW while the Maybach was designed by Mercedes Benz.
In fact, If I had $500,000, I'd buy an S63 AMG and pocket the rest of the $350,000
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chad.dawkins 5:38PM (12/26/2008)
People who play in this price range don't go with "either or" they go with "both." Anyways I just wish there were bigger pics.
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the vegas style guy 5:43PM (12/26/2008)
It's cars like this that make me wish I was a blonde chick with huge Mams and a total lack of morals or self respect.
Damn my brown hair and small boobs.
Oh yeah, and that being a guy thing too.
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happy_penguin 11:05PM (12/26/2008)
OMG do you ever stop? :D :D :D
JDMlover 7:57PM (12/26/2008)
To be honest....
I DONT CARE BOUT THIS CAR AT ALL....it does nothing for the auto industry...it never did brake new ground...just a waste of money for people who want to waste money. You can buy a much better car imo from Lexus Audi BMW and Merc with paying half a Million dollars.
am i the only one that feels this way?
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the vegas style guy 8:34PM (12/26/2008)
Yep
Chaz 9:42PM (12/26/2008)
This is rather the point. This is old world luxury. This isn't tawdry supercar, pedestrian and proletariat (merit be damned) S/A8/7/LS/etc., and this isn't brash Escalade convoy.
Not to say people don't primarily buy the things to be seen, but it's a distinct sort of obscene excess the owners pride themselves on that makes bespoke and commemorative editions important. For them at least.
For the record, my money would go to a pristine 1981 Supra, a V8 Genesis, and a Ridley Noah. and a house.
JDMlover 1:40AM (12/27/2008)
@ Chaz
Amen.
A House....a IS-F and a stock 1998 Supra Twin Turbo in Red.
Thats all i need.
S R Ravi 12:19PM (12/27/2008)
Probably, your perceptions may change if there were a few hundred million's in your bank account. I feel it's more a case of sour 'gripes', oh sorry, grapes... Audi, Merc and Lexus is probably for your butler, and the odd 'school' run. There's "Sense of Occasion" written all over the RR; and my God it has presence.
Ken 9:07PM (12/30/2008)
Rolls Royce might not be the better car technology wise but it is more about the prestige. RR is on another level than Mercedes and BMW...you have to be worth more than a couple million to own one...and that is the main difference.
Matt W. 11:09AM (12/27/2008)
If I were buying a half-million dollar car in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the great depression (and the first truly world-wide financial crisis), I'd be watching my back.
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S R Ravi 12:28PM (12/27/2008)
All your asset's are slowly being reduced to 'junk' status. Liquidate your assets and plonk your money on the RR, fill its tank, hire a 'bespoke' chauffeur and ride off into the 'bespoke' sunset, sipping the best of the 'bespoke' bubbly.
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