Got chauffeured around in one one of these last night.
A mate of mine and his missus called my missus and said meet us outside of your house as they were in a Roller.
Yep, he pulled up in a 60 plate Ghost, so we jumped in and went out for a spin for a couple of hours.
He got the loan of one for a day as he works for Rolls Royce at Goodwood, as apparently they let staff borrow "test" cars so they can drive around and notice any faults, foibles in general day to day driving of the car.
List price was around £170k!!!! But my mate told me there was every option available (things like military a grade night vision camera, side cameras, tv, fridge, curtains etc, etc) and he reckoned the car would've had a purchase price of around £230k!!
As you can imagine the car got quite a few looks, a funny moment was when we driving out of Portsmouth and some dude in a new Range Rover sport to our left, kept nudging his car up so he could get a closer look at the car and then try to see what celeb was in the back - I shut the auto curtains on the windows in true "celeb style" whilst we waiting at a set of traffic lights
It was an experience to get taken out in one, as I've only ever seen a few Phantoms in the flesh and never a Ghost. But you know what?
For a car worth over 200k it didn't actually feel like it was £200k car - plastic trim was on show (around the air vents for the rear seats) Although apparently in the Phantom they are made from chrome.
A mate of mine and his missus called my missus and said meet us outside of your house as they were in a Roller.
Yep, he pulled up in a 60 plate Ghost, so we jumped in and went out for a spin for a couple of hours.
He got the loan of one for a day as he works for Rolls Royce at Goodwood, as apparently they let staff borrow "test" cars so they can drive around and notice any faults, foibles in general day to day driving of the car.
List price was around £170k!!!! But my mate told me there was every option available (things like military a grade night vision camera, side cameras, tv, fridge, curtains etc, etc) and he reckoned the car would've had a purchase price of around £230k!!
As you can imagine the car got quite a few looks, a funny moment was when we driving out of Portsmouth and some dude in a new Range Rover sport to our left, kept nudging his car up so he could get a closer look at the car and then try to see what celeb was in the back - I shut the auto curtains on the windows in true "celeb style" whilst we waiting at a set of traffic lights
It was an experience to get taken out in one, as I've only ever seen a few Phantoms in the flesh and never a Ghost. But you know what?
For a car worth over 200k it didn't actually feel like it was £200k car - plastic trim was on show (around the air vents for the rear seats) Although apparently in the Phantom they are made from chrome.
