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Friday, 21 October 2022 05:18

2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre

Rolls-Royce is taking its ultimate-luxury ethos to a new realm with the all-electric 2024 Spectre coupe. James Bond probably wouldn't toast the new model with one of his shaken-not-stirred signature martinis given his history of battling the international crime organization known as Spectre. But he might want to drive the regal new coupe nonetheless. The Spectre rides on the same platform as the Phantom sedan and Cullinan SUV but is propelled by a fully electric powertrain consisting of two electric motors that pump out a combined 577 horsepower. The driving range is estimated to be around 260 miles per charge, which does not place the Spectre among the long-range EV cohort with less-expensive rivals such as the Tesla Model S and the Lucid Motors Air. But buyers with the $400,000 or so available to buy a Spectre aren't likely to road trip when their private jet is always standing ready at a nearby airfield. The Spectre is Rolls-Royce's first in a series of EVs, and the company says that its gasoline-powered models will be phased out of the lineup and replaced entirely with EVs by 2030.

What's New for 2024?

The Spectre is a new addition to the Rolls-Royce lineup and its first customers can expect to take delivery by the end of 2023.

Rolls-Royce hasn't released much information about the Spectre yet, including its price tag. We expect to see classic Rolls-Royce features and options on the new coupe, including a series of highly-customizable packages offered through the company’s Bespoke design service.

EV Motor, Power, and Performance

All Spectres will come with a dual-motor electric powertrain with 577 horsepower and 664 lb-ft of torque. Rolls-Royce says that's enough to move the 6559-pound coupe to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds. You may scoff at that estimate and point to the Tesla Model S Plaid that hit 60 mph in 2.1 seconds in our testing, but we'd be quick to remind you that Rolls-Royce's brand ethos is more about quiet cruising than mind-bending performance. Rolls-Royce has installed adaptive suspension to ensure an appropriately isolated ride, and the engineers also made room for a massive amount of sound-deadening material that Rolls says will ensure the cabin remains whisper quiet.

Range, Charging, and Battery Life

Rolls-Royce hasn't said how large the Spectre's battery is but it's estimating a driving range of about 260 miles per charge. DC fast-charging should be possible, but we'd guess that most Spectre buyers will have a charging system installed at their estates so they aren't forced to wait around in the parking lot of a Walmart like the rest of us.

Interior, Comfort, and Cargo

The Spectre's cabin offers space for four with bucket seats in both rows. Anyone who's familiar with Rolls-Royce's current interior design will find a similarly sybaritic one here, although the company has added several design features that are unique to Spectre. For example, in addition to the brand's signature starry-night headliner, the Spectre's door panels rock a similar twinkle with tiny LED lights sparkling in the area surrounding the armrests. We don't yet know all the details or have a list of options and features but the Spectre should be available with a seemingly endless array of personalization options and material choices.

Source: caranddriver.com

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The Specter luxury coupe marked the British prestige brand's entry into the electric race.

Rolls-Royce's entry into the electric car market works in its own way. They can simply afford it, that is, they can be sure that they will easily extract a few hundred thousand euros from their fans for a huge electric coupe weighing less than three tons.

Specifically, the Specter weighs 2,975 kg, making it one of the heaviest production cars on the market right now. Of course, the Specter is not a small car, so the distance between the axles is as much as 3,210 mm.

The supporting structure is aluminum, but the burden of the huge battery cannot be hidden.

The 700 kg battery is a nice ballast in the floor of the vehicle, and with a capacity of more than 100 kWh, it enables a solid driving autonomy of 520 km, according to WLTP.

The electric drive produces 585 hp and 900 Nm, which apparently in RR they consider sufficient to satisfy the appetite of future owners, but also some basic standards of the brand.

After all, the company is no stranger to electricity because Charles Rawls was thinking about an electric car more than 120 years ago. In 1900, he bought an electric vehicle and was mesmerized by the feeling of driving without noise, vibration and stench.

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On paper, it reaches 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds, but that really matters less in a car of this caliber.

Yes, the Specter is fast, but it should be experienced more like a road version of a luxury yacht, just as the rear of the car suggests.

Equipped with "Magic carpet ride" chassis and Planar suspension, the Specter will ride the mountain roads between Nice and St. Tropez like on rails.

It is not surprising that it was precisely on those roads that he performed the final tests and fine-tuning of the prototype before the start of production.

No need to waste words on the design. Suffice it to say - a pure classic, but also a never-wider LED-illuminated front fascia.

And yes, the lights are double, where the daytime ones are extremely thin, and the main ones are hidden under them. It's a recipe recently introduced by BMW and it didn't go over well with critics. It will probably pass here.

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2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge First Drive: Going Bump in the Night

The blacked-out Ghost looks great, but its ride quality darkens our mood.

More than any other nameplate, Rolls-Royce promises the best the automotive industry has to offer. There is no doubt the Rolls-Royce Ghost is among the finest sedans you can buy—top honors goes to its larger sibling, the Phantom—but driving the new-for-2022 Black Badge version has us asking an uncomfortable question: Is this really the best Rolls-Royce could do?

Ghosting The Black Badge Treatment

A quick backgrounder on Black Badge: Introduced in 2016, it is primarily a styling exercise most notable for its darkened brightwork, particularly the trademark Rolls-Royce grille and Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament. Black Badge has been an inordinate success for Rolls-Royce, and for 2022 the new-shape Ghost joins the Cullinan, Dawn, and Wraith in offering its own ($43,850) Black Badge package. The kit includes lightweight wheels with carbon-fiber barrels and a beautifully intricate aluminum inlay on the black Bolivar wood trim, as well as more power and a stiffer chassis calibration.

For the record, we love the visuals. The blacked-out chrome looks so good that you wonder why anyone would even consider a Rolls with old-fashioned brightwork. Our $519,000-as-optioned test car was done up in two-tone black and charcoal gray, but we think the murdered-out motif looks equally good when contrasted with bright primary paint colors. Not that it matters what we of the unwashed masses think—Rollers are usually custom-ordered, -colored, and -trimmed to suit the desires of their HNWI buyers—or "clients," as Rolls prefers to call these moneyed individuals. These are not folks who buy off the rack.

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Not All Improvements Are Improvements

But MotorTrend is a car publication, and driving dynamics are our specialty—and as dreamy as the Black Badge Ghost looks, the way it goes down the road gives us some pause. After some time behind the wheel in San Diego, we found the Black Badge setup neither transforms the Ghost into something completely different, nor does it feel quite right for a Rolls-Royce. If we were paying half-a-mil for one of these bespoke babies, that wouldn't make us happy.

Let's cover the changes, then we'll talk about how they impact the Ghost's driving experience. There's a power bump for the 6.7-liter twin-turbo V-12; Black Badge models produce 592 horsepower and 664 lb-ft, up 29 horsepower and 37 lb-ft from the regular (what Rolls-Royce now refers to as "Silver Badge") Ghost. The transmission is tuned to shift quicker when the throttle is nearly wide open. Chassis changes comprise a tightening of the steering, firmer air spring tuning and roll control, and a stiffer feel and reduced travel for the brake pedal. These are all software changes, by the way; the mechanical components are identical.

More Power—But Will You Notice?

We'll start with the powertrain. The Silver Badge Ghost is already quick—we've clocked it from 0-60 mph in 4.2 seconds—and we don't know that the Black Badge car's extra power will be detectable by the unaided human posterior. We estimate it could pick up a tenth of a second in our instrumented testing, but that could just as easily be lost when we round off the numbers. No matter; given the choice, we will always, always, always take more power, no matter how incremental the objective performance changes.

As for the quicker shifts, we could barely detect the difference. That's because the shifts only sharpen up near full throttle, and because on public roads you can only WOT a Ghost for a few seconds before getting into expensive-ticket territory. In other words, this is not exactly a benefit you get to enjoy on a regular basis.

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Better Brakes And Less Roll…

The chassis changes were far more noticeable. The brake does have a slightly stronger bite, and yet it is still gentle, never abrupt. The steering is noticeably heavier, though not objectionably so—the Silver Badge Ghost's steering is just about one-finger-light, and we welcomed the extra heft in the Black Badge's wheel. That said, with no change to the Ghost's tires or physical steering gear, the heavier steering highlights the Ghost's lack of feedback from the front wheels.

Body roll is also noticeably reduced, though it's worth noting that for all its mass and its goose-down-soft ride, the Silver Badge Ghost doesn't lean much either; in the Black Badge car, little shrinks to naught. It's a worthwhile improvement; for those who like the feedback that body lean provides, it might be missed.

… But It's The Ride That's The Problem

The ride quality gave us the most pause. The Black Badge Ghost still floats like a '70s-era Cadillac over big bumps, but now there's a near-constant vibration, the soft pitter-patter of not-quite-perfect pavement getting passed up to the seats. In a Rolls Royce, it's … well, it's weird, that's what it is. The magic of the Silver Badge Ghost is that it gives the sensation that all roads are paved with glass. The Black Badge car loses that ability to smooth out the surface beneath its tires, and with it dulls that Rolls-Royce enchantment.

All this might be acceptable if it transformed the Ghost into a world-class handler, something akin to the Bentley Flying Spur Speed—which, to be honest, is what we hoped for. But it doesn't. The Silver Badge Ghost is stable and secure in high-speed turns, though rather clumsy on smaller, tighter roads. The Black Badge car is nominally better, but still feels awkward and out of place, as if it's trying to run in dress shoes that are too tight.

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After several miles both speedy and serene in the Black Badge Ghost, we switched over to a Silver Badge car. Light and isolated, its driving characteristics felt much more in line with the car as a whole. It's a wafter, not a runner.

Don't Like How The Black Badge Ghost Drives? Too Bad

Our admittedly relatively minor complaints might be less justified if you could switch these stiffer settings on and off at will, but that's not possible. Rolls-Royce makes much of the fact there is no Sport button. "Your right foot is the sport button," company reps said to us. But it isn't, because nothing you do with the accelerator affects the chassis settings. Opt for the Black Badge and you, the client, are stuck with a ride that is—well, if not exactly rough, then at least unbecoming of a Rolls-Royce.

Rolls-Royce will give you any shade of paint you desire, any color of leather, any interior trim you like. But if you want the Black Badge model, you cannot opt out of the Black Badge chassis changes. It's strange that such a constraint is forced upon buyers by a marque that is all about furnishing its clients with bespoke automobiles.

In case you get the wrong idea here, the fact is the Black Badge Ghost is nothing like a poor-driving car. Far from it, and it's still very much a Rolls, stately and dignified. It's simply trying to be something it isn't.

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What Should Rolls-Royce Have Done With The Black Badge Ghost?

What makes this frustrating is that the answer to the question we posed—is this the best Rolls-Royce could do?—has to be "no." Why didn't it do a properly cohesive chassis revision, upgrading the hardware as well as the software, and giving the Black Badge Ghost a driving experience that is more cohesive and communicative? Let's not forget people pay nearly $44,000 for this upgrade, and while we're sure darkened chrome bits and carbon-fiber wheel barrels are expensive, surely there must be some change left over for hardware upgrades.

Rolls-Royce has the might of the BMW organization behind it, a company not exactly lacking in chassis-tuning expertise. If it really wanted to, we have no doubt Rolls could have made a Bentley Flying Spur Speed beater without dulling its Rolls-Royce-ness. Instead, it made but a few software changes.

At the very least, Rolls could have fitted a Sport button to turn these so-called dynamic improvements off—or, if we're going to blue-sky a little, maybe even select them individually. Doesn't it strike you as interesting that a $33,500 Hyundai Veloster N has adaptive suspension, steering, powertrain, and exhaust with full custom programming, and a $43,850 option package applied to a six-figure car does not?

We can't argue with the success of the Black Badge models, which now comprise 37 percent of Rolls-Royce sales worldwide and bring younger buyers into the fold. And the company might argue that our opinion of the Black Badge chassis changes doesn't matter, as most buyers choose Black Badge models for the way they look more than the way they drive.

Still, could anyone from the Rolls-Royce chassis engineering team look a client in the eye and say—truthfully—that for for half a million dollars, this is absolutely the best it could do? The Black Badge Ghost's driving experience is flawed, not bad. That Rolls-Royce could do better means paying customers deserve better.

(https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2022-rolls-royce-ghost-first-drive-review)

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Sunday, 31 October 2021 05:49

New Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost 2021 review

While the new Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost is just as great as the standard car, it also offers a level of customisation that will appeal to many buyers

Verdict

The Black Badge Ghost is every bit as comfortable and beautifully finished as the regular car, but it stops short of delivering a quantum leap dynamically, since to do so would be to take the model beyond the brand’s comfort zone. Buyers drawn in by the different approach to finishes and customisation - and there will be plenty of them - are unlikely to care much about this.

For many, Rolls-Royce remains an iconic brand built on sophistication, luxury and a subtle-yet-imposing road presence. But the British firm has been quietly building up an alter ego over the past five years through its Black Badge editions - ‘subversive’ models, designed to appeal to the sort of customer who might buy a regular car and then turn to a tuner or customiser to bling it up, or de-chrome it down.

In simple terms, Rolls would much rather build you a vehicle to this spec at its Goodwood factory, and earn the increased margin on it. And on many vehicles, Black Badge now accounts for more than a third of the company’s sales; on the Cullinan SUV, it’s north of 40 per cent. So Rolls stitched a Black Badge version into the development of the latest Ghost - and now we’ve had a chance to try it, on UK roads but under cover of darkness.

The reason for the evening test is simple: the car had yet to be revealed when we got behind the wheel, and Rolls reasoned that running the Black Badge Ghost around the Midlands under moonlight was as good as any wrap-based disguise.

Here, then, is what you get for your money - anywhere north of £300,000, by all accounts, and comfortably beyond £400k if you start playing around with the extraordinary freedom of the commissioning process (you can bet you’ll be encouraged to do so).

The Ghost’s 6.75-litre V12 engine has been retuned to produce 592bhp and 900Nm, gains of 29bhp and 50Nm respectively, and the ZF eight-speed automatic gearbox has been recalibrated. There’s also a new profile for the car’s Planar Suspension, with more voluminous air springs, and tweaks to the four-wheel steering and four-wheel drive system.

In addition, there’s a new ‘Low’ button on the gear selector stalk that switches the new exhaust to a more vocal setting, forces the gearbox to change ratios twice as quickly and makes all 900Nm of torque available from just 1,600rpm. It’s as close as a Rolls will ever get to Sport mode, in other words and while the company doesn’t quote performance figures here, it should trim a few tenths of a second off the standard Ghost’s 0-62mph time of 4.8 seconds.

As you might expect, there’s a plethora of new materials and finishes outside and inside the car as well. Buyers can choose any colour - including picking a shade from Rolls’ own 44,000-strong palette - but most will opt for what the company is calling the “car industry’s darkest black”, formed from 45kg of paint.

The clincher for many Black Badge clients, apparently, is the extension of the dark theme to the Spirit of Ecstasy and the front grille; these items get an extra chrome electrolyte during the plating process, giving a darker finish, one hundredth of the width of a human hair, to the stainless steel. Black Badge Ghosts also get bespoke 21-inch wheels that incorporate carbon-fibre barrels.

The cabin, meanwhile, features a unique finish that incorporates carbon and metallic fibres in a diamond ‘weave’, and there are subtle differences in the treatment of everything from the champagne cooler to the clock. These are the sort of detailed differences, inside and out, that give prospective clients a banker’s draft-inducing buzz.

We tried the Black Badge Ghost on a closed test road first, where Rolls encouraged us to exploit its improved body control and feel the increased urgency of ‘Low’ mode. Sure enough, it showed impressive agility for a car weighing 2.5 tonnes, resisting body roll and completing rapid changes of direction without much fuss.

It’s fast, too; standing starts in ‘Low’ mode are almost comically brisk, as long as you keep your foot far enough down on the throttle to ensure that the gear changes are performed at maximum speed (it only happens when the right-hand pedal is at 90 per cent and above). The V12 engine definitely has a more noticeable note too, although it’s still a Rolls we’re talking about here, so don’t expect the thudding, NASCAR-esque rasp of an AMG.

On the road, mind you, it’s hard to see how you’d really get the time and space to use this extra breadth of ability. The Black Badge Ghost is accomplished, fast, composed and comfortable - a proper demolisher of cross-continent journeys - but then, these are all traits shared with the regular model. And as with that car, it’s the sheer amount of road area that you’re occupying that gets in the way; on all but the widest A-roads, you’ll be acutely aware of how close your wheels are to the centre line - and how much stopping distance you’ll need if you meet oncoming traffic on narrower routes.

So, for all the engineering tweaks, what you’re left with here is a car whose appeal lies not in being a dynamically transformed Ghost, but rather a subtly different edition that opens up an alternative path for customisation and commissioning. Rolls may call this approach ‘subversive’ but in truth, it probably says a lot about increasing numbers of the brand’s clients, and their vision of what a luxury car really is.

  • Model:Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost
  • Price:From £300,000 (est)
  • Engine:6.75-litre twin-turbo V12 petrol
  • Power/torque:592bhp/900Nm
  • Transmission:Eight-speed auto, four-wheel drive
  • 0-62mph:4.5 seconds (est)
  • Top speed: 155mph (est)
  • Economy: 17.9-18.6mpg
  • CO2 emissions:347-359g/km
  • On sale:Now

(https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/rolls-royce/ghost/356418/new-rolls-royce-black-badge-ghost-2021-review)

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Thursday, 14 January 2021 07:30

Sales of the BMW Group in 2020

The BMW Group also published sales data during 2020. The data show that the placement of the BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brands last year amounted to 2,324,809 vehicles, which is a decrease of 8.4 percent compared to 2019.

BMW itself sold 2,028,659 cars (minus 7.2 percent), MINI ended the year with sales of 292,394 vehicles (minus 15.8 percent), and Rolls-Royce sold 3,756 luxury cars with sales down 26 , 4 percent).

In terms of sales by region, the BMW Group sold 912,621 vehicles (minus 15.7 percent) in Europe, 984,515 (plus 6.1 percent) in Asia, and 306,870 vehicles (minus 18.0 percent) in the United States. In Asia, the largest sales were, of course, in China, where the BMW Group found 777,379 customers (sales growth was 7.4 percent).

The statement also points out that the BMW M sold 144,218 cars in 2020 (plus 5.9 percent compared to 2019), and that sales of electric and plug-in hybrid models (BMW i, BMW iPerformance and MINI Electric) amounted to 192,646 units (plus 31.8 percent).

Finally, the fact that BMW Motorrad sold 169,272 motorcycles last year (minus 3.4 percent).

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Are we “post opulence?” Try post ostentation.

The British are famous for their understatement, so much so you'd believe it if I told you it was codified in common law. Rolls-Royce, the most British of British automakers, treats understatement in reference to its products with the same reverence it treats the Spirit of Ecstasy that adorns them: the utmost. Six years ago, Rolls-Royce launched the Ghost Series II, insisting it was a "subtle" update. Now it presents us with a third-generation 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost (no "series" appellation) described by a design movement Rolls-Royce itself made up: "post opulence."

A New Sharpness For The 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost's Design

Much as no Rolls-Royce is ever subtle, it is never unopulent, either. But the new 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost is better considered "post ostentatious." Opulence is most commonly associated with frivolity and excess. Ostentatiousness; that's what Rolls-Royce is trying to get past—and where it succeeds (measured, of course, in the context of $300,000 personal vehicles). How? This Ghost is no less opulent by the strictest definition of the word, it's simply more serious. It's more dignified in design, in accommodation, and in driving, but no less lavish and excessive.

To my eye, the old Ghost's greatest sin was its softness in design, its lack of presence in the shadow of the audacious but resolute Phantom. The softer lines, the less aggressive posture, to me always read as unserious, whimsical, and that just isn't what you think of when you think of a Rolls-Royce. Goodwood's designers and I must agree, because the new Ghost suffers no such dilettantism. Small changes like moving the front axle forward, sharpening the creases, and flattening the surfaces make this Ghost far more assertive, more imposing. More like the Phantom.

. . . And A New Sharpness To The Ghost's Dynamics

This self-confidence is imposed on the driving experience, as well. The old Ghost was the handler of the Rolls-Royce lineup, an admittedly easy bar to clear at the time when the old Phantom was designed to dispatch a corner at nothing less than a highly dignified pace. In amping up the driving appeal, though, some of the trademark Rolls-Royce isolation was lost, unrefined pavement sending unbecoming shimmies through the highly modified BMW 7 Series chassis. No more. The new Phantom greatly expanded its driving repertoire while maintaining its "magic carpet" ride, thus raising the fence for the new Ghost.

Both are now built on the exclusive "Architecture of Luxury," which Rolls-Royce insists adamantly is not related in any way to the 7 Series, thank you very much. Doing so has had reciprocal benefits, with the Phantom gaining some of the Ghost's dynamic capabilities, and the Ghost gaining the Phantom's refinements. Simply put, the Ghost handles better than it ever has before while simultaneously riding better than it ever has.

Although the Ghost has indeed always handled quite well for a 5,400-pound sedan, there's a new confidence to it, and there's no longer the caveat. It used to be enough that the Ghost was surprisingly flat around a corner and turned in remarkably crisply. Thanks to sophisticated all-wheel drive and rear-wheel steering, the 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost feels less like an obedient servant and more like a willing partner. It enjoys a spirited drive rather than simply enabling one. There's a mature playfulness to it, a willingness to loosen its collar a bit. Customers living in the Hollywood Hills or deep in Malibu, or any other home to genuinely fabulous driving roads will immediately appreciate the difference. After all, Ghost owners are the type to drive themselves rather than be chauffeured like Phantom owners.

Doing so, they'll find the Ghost moves much like the new Phantom, just smaller. Acceleration is by way of an ethereal force drawing the car forward, something no other powertrain of any kind, combustion or electric, can reproduce. There's no gauche squatting or nose lifting, it just goes. Unless you're really being naughty, the cheeky "Power Reserve" meter never dips below 70 percent, just to remind you how over-spec'd the car is. Braking is like driving into sand, then simply settling down onto the earth; it's incredibly easy to overbrake and stop far shorter than intended. Everything outperforms.

At the same time, there's less compromise in ride quality. Rather than shimmies throughout the body structure, road blemishes now feel like the gaps in the tracks as your high-speed train glides across the countryside. Speed bumps are optional, and potholes are only to be avoided lest they pop a tire. What you feel inside the cabin seems to be there only to remind you you're driving a car and not completely isolated from the outside world.

The lack of complete and total isolation is actually by design. In an uncharacteristic moment of boastfulness, Rolls-Royce engineers say they tried building a car that was completely silent inside, and customers found it unnerving. Therefore, they allowed a certain amount of white noise back in. You also hear a bit of engine throat-clearing at times, the soft rustle of air rushing out of the vents, and a distant thrum of rubber on asphalt. What you don't hear, thankfully, is the unbecoming wind noise around the door mirrors that marred the experience in the last Ghost.

This deliberate inclusion of noise speaks to the direction of the interior redesign, which mirrors that of the exterior. Every choice feels deliberate and unrepentant, whimsy traded for directness. The old Ghost's interior walked a tightrope of old-world design cues and designers' attempts to hide necessary and desirable modern technology. The 2021 Ghost wastes little time trying to hide modern technology and craftsmanship, often embracing them head on and forcing them to work together. Cutting the Ghost name into the dashboard and surrounding it with 850 hand-drilled stars, and backlighting the whole menagerie is plenty opulent, but it comes off as high-tech and cool, not ostentatious and boorish. The same applies to the night sky headliner with its customizable constellation of stars, including shooting stars.

It isn't just appearances, though. That purposeful approach to change has resulted in many functional upgrades. All four doors are fully electrically operable now, opening or closing. The fold-out picnic tables and multimedia tablets embedded in the front seat backs are now motorized and hide the tablets when not in use. Similarly, the BMW iDrive-based rotary controller for the rear seats now hides behind a wood cover when not in use. In front, where the infotainment system and controller are both expected and necessary to the vehicle's operation, they're embraced rather than hidden away.

This is an essential theme of the modern Rolls-Royce. Make no effort to hide what doesn't need to be hidden. Pull no punches. Meet the necessary straight on, and pick which features actually need to be out of sight. Find ways to enhance the luxury experience without inhibiting functionality or hiding things unconvincingly. Pick your battles and win them decisively.

Since its debut, I've considered the Ghost the Rolls-Royce for people not rich or sophisticated enough to buy the real thing, the Phantom. To me, it's always been the Rolls-Royce for people who appreciate the marque but don't really get it.

It's wrong to maintain either of those beliefs when it comes to the new 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost. It is, even to this snob, a real Rolls-Royce through and through, and better in every way for it.

Source: motortrend.com

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