The Rolls-Royce dealer in Abu Dhabi has come up with yet another special-edition model, this time a Rolls-Royce Ghost “honouring legendary Arab inventor Abbas Ibn Firnas, who is most famous for being the first man in history to make scientific attempts at flying.”
So the boss goes out of town. The driver has the keys to a Rolls Royce Phantom. There are huge empty open areas around the mansion. What does he do? Well, do some drifting of course!
So if you thought that the crazy automobile recall saga had ended, you were wrong. Since our last post on the recalls earlier this year, there were an insane amount of recalls that followed, from almost every car manufacturer in the world you can ever think of, almost all of them being issued following instructions from the U.S.-based NHTSA agency. And we could not bother to post each recall issue as a separate story, the task being as equally tedious as the reader-response to these. Here are all the recalls that could potentially be relevant to our region since April 2012.
Drawing inspiration from Art Deco, the eclectic artistic style of the early 1900s, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars have built and displayed a fleet of Ghost and Phantom cars at the Paris Motor Show 2012.
When we got the call to come drive the “new” Rolls-Royce Phantom models in Dubai, I had to think hard to remember why they were calling them new models. Then it hit me that Rolls-Royce did launch “new” models of their Phantoms, if only with minor changes. The Phantom Series II may just be a facelift, but the new tech added brings the flagship up to modern standards.
Inspired by Charles Stewart Rolls and his Schneider Trophy-winning Supermarine S6B powered by a Rolls-Royce R Type engine, Rolls-Royce has just unveiled the Phantom Coupé Aviator Collection. The collection “celebrates the spirit of human endeavour that drove a very British hero and subsequently led Rolls-Royce to simultaneous world speed records on land, air and in the water.”
Rolls-Royce took part in closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games last night with three Rolls‑Royce Phantom Coupes that sported “newly-designed badges for the first time in the company’s 108‑year history.” The new badges, designed by the Rolls‑Royce Bespoke Design Team, replaced the traditional double “RR” for the first time since the company started in 1904 apparently.
The new 2012 Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II has officially arrived to the Middle East, having been revealed for the first time in the GCC at Abu Dhabi Motors, the Rolls-Royce dealer for Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is presenting the Phantom Series II range at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. Changes are minimal, of course.