2018 Rolls-Royce Phantom: First Impressions — Cars.com

whenever you see a Rolls Royce driving by even an old one it has a certainstately imposing allure to it well there’s nothing old about this theeighth generation redesign of Rolls Royces flagship sedan the Phantomrolls-royce says the eighth generation phantom rides a bespoke all-new platformthat doesn’t underpin anything else yet though it will underpin futurerolls-royce models to come now this is the regular wheelbase version of the carbelieve it or not it’s a little bit shorter than the prior generation of thePhantom but still a gigantic car as you can see there’s an extended wheelbaseversion that’s even longer lots of horizontal miss going on hereyou check out this character line he runs all the way past the fender goesstraight to the rear of the car doesn’t rise or fall really along the way as yougo there’s another line here that actually starts at the grille there’sthis sort of metal framework that kind of slinks up the side here and actuallyconnects here to the frame framework around the windshield just tons of verycool little detailing going on now as usual Rolls Royces logo here is in aweighted part of the center hub on the wheels so it actually always is uprightno matter the position of the wheel now inside the Rolls Royce has just as muchof an imposing layout as the exterior which you know figures if you’ve been inthe previous generation of the Phantom it kind of looked this way to a veryhigh shelf like dashboard routine of course tons of really really authenticexcellent materials here there’s actually hermetically sealed glass herebehind which you can have an artist customize some sort of artwork if youwant to kind of slink it around behind the clock here very cool stuffrolls-royce says everything from like feathers to porcelain has made its wayinto there in terms of what customers want to customize now birds weren’t theonly animals that gave something up for the interior of the Phantom there’ssheep’s wool carpets here the leather here comes actually from bulls at highaltitude in the Alps in the European Alps rolls-royce says that’s because upat higher altitudes there’s actually fewer pests and fewer insect bites andthat can create blemishes in the leather I’m just not surprised by any of this atall the back seat affords you a position to really see the headliner on theinside of the Phantom which rolls-royce says it has stitched LEDs into and youcan customize that to pretty much any constellation you want and they’llrecreate it into this headliner of the car anything fromBig Dipper to Cassiopeia it can be up there now we doubt you’ll win this caras part of an audience giveaway on a daytime talk show though that reallywould make it a phantom of the Oprah barring that the Phantom is going tocost you at least four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the regularwheelbase version five hundred and thirty thousand dollars for the longwheelbase version so start saving up the Phantom is on sale nowyou

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