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REPORT: Electric Rolls-Royce Phantom could arrive within a year

Adding fuel to the rumormill fire, Autocar reports that a pure electric version of the Rolls-Royce Phantom could hit the streets within 12 months. Rolls' parent company, BMW, has been getting heavily involved in EVs and the Phantom would be an obvious choice to launch its new drivetrain considering the price premium already tacked onto the brand's offerings. Since Phantom owners tend to be driven rather than drive and rarely use their luxo-barges for long road trips (that's what the jet is for), the decision to offer an EV Phantom makes ... Read more →

VIDEO: German armor company blows the crap out of a Rolls-Royce Noah Joseph

Why on earth would you deliberately shoot a Rolls-Royce and try your darnedest to blow it off the road? Well, because it looks like fun, that's why. But at a third of a million dollars, you ...

Badge-engineering at its finest? Rolls-Royce Phantom spotted in Manhattan with GM hybrid emblems Sam Abuelsamid

If there is any car that seems to be well suited to either hybridization or outright electrification, the Rolls-Royce Phantom would seem to be logical candidate. Many of them are used ...

Rolls-Royce launches configurator for 200EX/Ghost Noah Joseph

Looking for a spectacularly useless way to waste some time? Online car configurators are one of our favorites. You can sit for an hour or more playing with different color combinations and options ...

CONFIRMED: Rolls-Royce RR4 getting 500+HP turbo V12, 8-speed gearbox Chris Paukert

Historically, Rolls-Royce has somewhat smugly declined to quote horsepower numbers, utilizing amusingly evasive language like "entirely sufficient" to describe its engines' power outputs. Perhaps ...

Geneva 2009: Rolls-Royce 200EX proves that downsizing is relative 8 months ago on Autoblog

In this economic climate, nobody is immune. But everything is relative. Rolls-Royce may continue to set sales records, but even they're downsizing... sorta. Rolls' answer to a shrinking economy is a smaller model, but at 212.6 inches long, it's the 200EX is still bigger than most luxury sedans ...

Geneva Preview: Rolls-Royce 200EX Concept teaser surfaces 9 months ago on Autoblog

The oft-spied Rolls-Royce RR4 finally has a name -- 200 EX -- and will be unveiled in concept form at the Geneva Motor Show in a couple of weeks. The 200EX will be a new, smaller model to slot in below the current Phantom sedan and coupe, riding on a new platform and with an all-new engine. The ...

Rolls-Royce releases official sketches of new RR4 1 year ago on Autoblog

We've seen plenty of photoshopped renderings of Rolls-Royce's next effort, the RR4, but this morning, the BMW-owned British luxury icon released the first official sketches of the new car. The RR4 won't be coming to market for another two years, but its design is complete and vehicle development ...

Rolls-Royce confirms new models and new engine 1 year ago on Autoblog

To call Rolls-Royce a small automaker would be an understatement as big as their cars are. Its model line-up, recently expanded to include the Drophead Coupe, consists solely of two derivatives of the Phantom. For the first time in the company's history, production in 2007 capped the 1,000 mark. So ...

Spy Shots: Baby Rolls nabbed 1 year ago on Autoblog

Hours upon hours of lying prone on the frozen tundra of the Arctic Circle have paid off for KGP's hardcore spy shooters. An upright test mule has been spotted running around at BMW's facility in the frozen hinterlands. There have been rumors of a smaller Roller swirling about, and these shots seem ...

And you thought the Phantom was the size of a truck... 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Range Rover has long held the high ground in the luxury off-road segment, holding its own quite honorably against the constant onslaught of latecoming rivals from mainstream luxury carmakers. It might have a more difficult time of it, though, if the other Double-R of British luxury automobiles ...

Spy Shots: Rolls Royce fixed-head coupe 2 years ago on Autoblog

Wait a second, doesn't this spy shot look a lot like the Phantom Drophead Coupe that's already out on the market? That's what Rolls Royce would have you believe, but EVO is certain this is the Spirit of Ecstasy's upcoming hard-top two-door, previewed by the 101EX concept and recently confirmed for ...

Does BMW want more babies? 2 years ago on Autoblog

BMW is expected to release its new corporate strategy later this year, and when it does, it might include expanding to swallow up some more brands. What those brands might be has not been revealed, although reports indicate that the Bavarian automaker could be looking to take over Volvo cars from ...

Pricey Pickup: 1969 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow truck for sale 2 years ago on Autoblog

All that money, and it looks like a lowered Ford Courier with a nice paintjob -- from the side, anyway. This Silver Shad-amino (Shadero?) has just undergone a two-year restoration by Florida's Foreman Motors. It'd be just the thing out on the Estate, cruising the grounds surrounded by sumptuous ...

Land of the Free: Americans pay least for a new Rolls-Royce 2 years ago on Autoblog

Think a Rolls-Royce Phantom is expensive? Well, yeah...it is. One of the most expensive on the market, as a matter of fact. (Hey, it's a Rolls-Royce. What did you expect?) But if you think the Phantom is expensive on the American market, you should take a look at what it costs elsewhere in the ...

STRUT your Roller 2 years ago on Autoblog

When supersonic wasn't enough, we got "hypersonic." When luxury wasn't enough, we got "ultra-luxury." If we aren't there yet, we will soon come to a time when "bling" is not enough. The first candidate for what we will call "superbling" is STRUT's line of automotive jewelry. With offerings aimed at ...

Rolls-Royce steel-plates the Phantom 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click on image above to view in high-resolution In most countries around the world, if you've got the cash and the chutzpah to be rolling in a Roller, you're an instant target for theft, carjacking, kidnapping and various forms of armed extortion. No wonder, then, that Rolls-Royce is finally ...

The Rolls Royce of marketing strategies 2 years ago on Autoblog

Most carmakers produce automobiles for a wide variety of customers and adjust their marketing strategies accordingly. While a Viper may be used to promote the brand, Dodge isn't trying to sell one to the same customer considering a Caliber, for instance. A handful, meanwhile, only market to the ...

Rolls Royce and Grey Goose mix up a special cocktail 2 years ago on Autoblog

Is that a Grey Goose flying into a Silver Cloud? Not far off, actually. In a bit of brand synergy we can really get behind, Grey Goose, the veritable Rolls Royce of vodkas, has teamed up with Rolls Royce itself on a joint marketing and public awareness campaign. The promotion centers around two ...

2007 RM Auction, Scottsdale: 3 Rolls-Royce 40/50HP Silver Ghosts 2 years ago on Autoblog

1911 Rolls-Royce 40/50HP Silver Ghost ROI Des Belges The history of Lot 264 can be traced its build date of March 3, 1911, when it was shipped to N. Gatti in London on April 24th. From there the 1911 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Chassis No. 1574 was sold several times, including to Millard Newman in ...

Upcoming "baby Rolls" to get its own platform 2 years ago on Autoblog

Some love it, some hate it, but everyone has to admit that the Rolls Royce Phantom is one impressive car in every way. As if that weren't enough, at Detroit Rolls Royce dropped another bomb on us in the form of the pre-production Phantom Drophead Coupe, complete with brushed aluminum hood, teak ...

VIDEO: Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe 2 years ago on Autoblog

A Rolls-Royce is, well, a Rolls-Royce. And they don't unveil many new Rolls-Royce models that often, so we've been looking forward to seeing the Phantom Drophead in motion. We have, now you can. The folks over at Rolls-Royce, in all their ecstatic spirit, have graced the motoring public with this ...

Detroit Preview: Rolls-Royce cabriolet 2 years ago on Autoblog

Rolls-Royce is set to take the wraps off a new convertible at the Detroit Motor Show less than two weeks from now, and have leaked a few photos to get our Spirits of Ecstasy flying. Although the name is not yet officially known, most insiders predict a revival of the Corniche nameplate for this ...

Pretty in Pink: Bugatti Veyron by Bathing Ape 3 years ago on Autoblog

Did you think the Porsche Turbo with the camouflage paint job was strange? Then try this on for size. Japanese streetwear brand Bathing Ape (think Fubu or Marc Ecko from the land of the rising sun) seems to have a knack for taking the most expensive, exclusive high-end automobiles on the market ...

Bruce Wayne or Batman? DC Design Rolls-Royce coupe 3 years ago on Autoblog

Ever wonder what would happen if you crossed a Nissan 350Z with a Rolls-Royce? Yeah, us neither. But Indian styling house DC Design, the same people who brought us the Cayenne coupe, seem to have a knack for crafting the answers to questions no one was asking – with considerable skill, mind ...






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