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If you find yourself in Knightsbridge this week, we highly recommend that you take a casual stroll past Harrods… Who are we kidding? It won’t be a casual stroll. Not with the Rolls-Royce Wraith currently making its UK debut in the window of said luxury department store. Yup, for one week only the most powerful…
“I love beautiful cars”, said Lagerfeld when visiting Rolls-Royce Cars to present his photography exhibition. Part of Rolls-Royce’s Icons Of Art Series, Lagerfeld presented ‘A Different View’ to private guests at Goodwood last Friday. Alongside his work as a designer, the monochromatic fashion monarch has always pursued his love of photography. His latest work, the…
The spirit of movements such as Art Deco can be seen in every modern Rolls-Royce. The evolutionary updates to the pinnacle Phantom Series II family are an elegant example. It is a car built in the context of the world we live in today that retains the true essence of what has gone before. In…
What do you get when you cross the most sublime driving experience with the best sailing materials? Regardless of what actually occurs there, the back of a Rolls-Royce Phantom has always been a sublime environment. From those deep, loving seats you could watch the world silently pass by, cocooned by double-glazed windows. I’ve been there,…
The Luxury Super Car Event & Concours d’Elégance revs its V8s and wheel-spins into the stately, gravel drives of Syon Park. Debutantes to the manicured lawn this year include the new Lamborghini Aventador, promising a ‘time-travelling’ acceleration of 0-62 mph in a shade under three seconds, and the 268mph Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, although LUSSO’s…
Geneva. It’s clean, it’s neat, it’s somewhat quaint and understated. It is then the least likely city to host what’s probably Europe’s (and arguably the world’s) leading car show. However, for a week every March, that’s what happens in the several acres of Geneva’s Palexpo exhibition hall. This year, the buzz words have been iPhone…
“Perfection.” That was the ideal that Sir Henry Royce urged his employees to strive towards. In contradiction to the notion that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, Sir Henry also implored his staff, in a vague Hey Jude-esque style, “to take the best that exists and make it better”. It’s a pretty good principle…
The first progeny of Rolls Royce’s Anglo-German alliance with BMW was the Phantom, star of numerous rap videos and episodes of The Apprentice and yours for £250,000. But with Bentley rapidly cornering what could be facetiously termed the bottom end of the super-luxury market, Rolls-Royce needed a bread and butter model. The result? The Ghost,…