Car Review Today: Rolls Royce Ghost 2009

Posted on January 16, 2010
Filed Under Car Review, News, Rolls Royce, We Like

This is the new Rolls Royce’s Ghost 2009, a £ 192k British-built luxury sedan. Here you will find the majestic Rolls-Royce Phantom a bit gauche? Some potential owners to do, “says Rolls, so that the smaller, more discreet and slightly more affordable Ghost is the answer. Read more for cars verdict on the new Rolls-Royce Ghost.
But the sense of a Rolls Royce Ghost 2009 is to make a statement.

We would have thought so, but some potential buyers all wanted the luxury of the phantom in a package that they can access a parking meter, without being able to attract unnecessary attention. The reticent presence, and £ 192,500 list price (£ 80k less than the phantom) indicates 80 percent of the Ghost buyers are new to the brand. And more than half of likely come from Bentley, would affect not something that Crewe love to hear.
Sun Rolls just like a piece of the wheelbase and the grille was smaller?

No, this is a completely new car. Well, everything is new, if you discount the BMW 7-Series, with the Ghost shares some mechanical components. The Phantom of the Opera, is built around an aluminum space frame, but the spirit of the chassis is a steel monocoque. Aluminum chassis are chunky affairs so stick with steel rolls to allow the mind with the interior does not lend well behind the phantom, while the space requirement is significantly lower. The 5399mm mind is 435mm shorter, 42mm narrower and 82mm shorter than a phantom with the standard wheelbase. Rolls Royce Ghost 2009.

So it is only a Rolls Royce Ghost 2009 760i to send in a dress?

No, it’s a totally different car with its own personality. And this is a really stationary. But when one examines their DNA, then you would see similarities. The turbocharged V12 is supported for example, a 6.6-liter version of the 6.0 engine in the 760i and the same eight-speed automatic transmission. Power rises from 537bhp to 563bhp and torque of the BMW 553lb ft to 570lb ft. The Phantom drives with its own different (and much less powerful) V12.

If you have not properly Rolls to power as a ‘quota’? “The spirit seems to be much better equipped.

At 2435kg (185kg more than the BMW, but 115kg less than the Phantom) It’s no lightweight, but the V12, it pushes to 62mph in 4.7sec. It feels very least, that you quickly, and then shoved back in your seat when the pedal is, but flat output only moan. This is a Rolls there is no disc or paddle sport mode for the gearbox though.
But what happens when you get to the corners?

You round them in a most un-Rolls fashion. The steering is perfectly weighted and communicative than one would expect a lot. Rolls does not use the BMW’s active steering system that varies the steering ratio according to speed, but also employs adaptive control roll stiffness to subside and the anti-roll bar, to make sure the car into the corners, strong body and a good control of ride comfort. The shocks are adaptive, but even here there is no sporting attitude and no real need for one. Yes, if you really do print, bound to a B-road, then it does not feel quite so, as more athletic competitors. But we can not imagine (a lot of owners or their chauffeurs) driving the mind in such an unseemly manner.

As surely more important than outright cornering ability in a Rolls Royce Ghost 2009, the ride comfort, and it is here that the best Ghost BMW disguises its origins to smooth surfaces and poor delivery of very little road noise in the cab back. Only the willingness to feed, the shock of a bad pothole or ridge back into the cabin disappointed, and even then only because I think I remember the Phantom is a little less worried.

But it feels like a Rolls Royce?

The impressive vaulted thick suicide rear doors, baby soft leather, spacious back room, superior performance and driving experience to say that it certainly does not. This could take the drivers focus Rolls not yet, but it is still the back seat, that defines this car. This standard Ghost (a stretched version is likely to follow) as much legroom in the rear has a long wheelbase 7-Series and the rear-hinged doors make it easy to access, although it is quite stretch to the broad window sill step on the pavement achieving at least with pens as stumpy as mine. Clever positioning of the rear pillars means rear passengers have a much greater privacy than in an Audi A8 or 7-series would be.

The front pocket feels more intimate. Not tense, but certainly less space than a phantom, more like a normal luxury car, albeit a very beautifully trimmed one, and one visible to the Spirit of Ecstasy at the end of the hood. The hood, incidentally, is also available in a silver surface, the Phantom is an imitation of stainless steel. And while the quality is usually elevated above reproach, and occasionally details of glasses: chrome-effect plastic on switches, plastic door pulls and a glove box lid, which does not feel right on a £ 200k car. Even by normal car standards, they are excellent. But you expect more from a £ 200k car, especially the wearing of the Rolls grille.

Verdict
For us, the Phantom is still the genuine Rolls. It is a truly customized product, it looks and feels like nothing else on the planet and as part of £ 200k plus car is not even so much more expensive.

But the spirit is deeply impressive, destined to a huge success for Rolls and deservedly so. It was drawn as early as 1500 orders and has the potential returns than the Phantom, if demand continues. It drives brilliantly, is beautifully finished and is in a way the great phantom can never be used.

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