The New RollsRoyce Phantom:A Piece Of Technology And Automotive Art!
If you are an automobile enthusiast, the ‘Spirit Of Ecstasy’ is something you fantasize over no matter what. Rolls Royce is known for their top of the line, ultra luxurious cars and they outdid themselves when they launched the new ‘Phantom’ in London. The company claims that it is the quietest and most technically advanced car they have ever built. Rolls Royce has always been known to make automobile marvels that the richest people of the world prefer to be driven around in, and the company has been focusing on exhilaration as much as they do on luxury.
The new ‘Phantom’ is equipped with a powerful all new 6.75 liter twin turbo V12 engine which tops out at 155 mph, being electronically restricted, and hitting 0–60 at a whopping 5.3 seconds, making it the fastest car to ever come out of a Rolls Royce workshop. The car, keeping with the company’s tradition, is aimed for the richest of the rich and is priced at a massive $460,000. The car’s interior are of high gloss and ‘exquisitely tactile’ wood and reclining seats with literal art gallery on the dashboard to enjoy, well if you can afford to shell out half a million dollar for the car of course.
Rolls Royce has also announced it to move towards making electric cars keeping in mind the British government’s plan to ban all petrol and diesel engine vehicles by 2040. The company promised on focusing on ‘all electric’ engines instead of hybrid engines used by the likes of ‘La Ferrari’ right off the bat. Rolls Royce said that the new ‘Phantom’ is a piece of ‘automotive art’ and is the most silent motor car in the world. The car has paved way to the company’s plans for the future and how they are aiming to move from conventional fuels to a cleaner greener form of electric engines in their cars moving forward.
Rolls Royce has never just been about luxury and beauty in their cars, the cars that come out of a Rolls’ workshop is a hundred percent customized to suit the needs of the buyer and packs some serious tech inside. Every car is a feat of engineering in itself and that is what makes the company what it is today. The new ‘Phantom’ limo’s chassis is unconventional as it is flexible, according to the company, they plan to use it in future vehicles as it is easier to use with different propulsion systems and reduces the weight of the car, increasing fuel efficiency and acceleration and handling. The car also paves a path for the new Rolls Royce 4x4 codenamed ‘Project Culinan’.
The chauffeured passenger in the new ‘Phantom’ can look up to see the largest Starlight ‘headliner’ ever seen in a Rolls-Royce, comprising pinpricks of light in the roof. He or she is surrounded by high gloss and exquisitely tactile’ wood paneling in the door interiors, center consoles, dashboard and picnic tables. The armrests are inspired by the classic J-Class yacht. The sweep of wood paneling across the back of the front seats are influenced by the famous Eames Lounge Chair of 1956 which is part of the New York Museum of Modern Art’s permanent display. The car screams luxury and class from edge to edge, ostentation at its finest.
On top of that, the rear seats are carefully angled so that passengers can talk to each other without straining their necks. The fixed rear center console incorporates a drinks cabinet with whisky glasses and decanter, champagne flutes and cool-box. Rear picnic tables and screens are cleverly secreted behind the wood paneling on the rear of the front seats and can be electrically deployed and retracted at the touch of a button. Every item of switchgear is made from metal, glass, or wrapped in the finest leather. Rolls-Royce said, “The Phantom’s flexible ‘all-aluminum space-frame’ chassis will ‘underpin every future Rolls-Royce’ and that the new Phantom sets ‘a new benchmark’ in luxury, comfort and refinement, and is lighter, quieter, and 30 per cent stiffer than its predecessor’. Keeping the noise down was a major task for our engineers and designers — from the powerful but quieter new engine, to thicker 6mm two-layer glazing all around the car, 130kg of sound-deadening acoustic insulation around the cabin, foam-filled tires, and soft-touch self-closing doors.” The spokesman also stressed on the new ‘Phantom’ being the most technologically advanced Rolls-Royce ever.
The car provides an all-round ‘perfect 360° cocooning effect’ in a motor car that is approximately 10 per cent quieter than its predecessor at 62mph. Even the tires were focused upon. The company worked with its tires supplier to invent what they are calling the ‘Silent Seal’ tires which have a layer of foam inside to reduce the noise of the car while driving. The dashboard houses an analogue clock which, according to the company, is the loudest sound you can hear in a Rolls Royce Phantom.
This piece of automotive art is a culmination of aesthetics and technology in a manner that no other automobile manufacturer has been able to achieve thus far but are sure to follow suit, elevating cars as we know today.
