Electric Rolls-Royce Phantom

I think this will be the best limousine built ever looking for many angles. Why? First let’s start with what’s important and also mentioned in the title: the fact that it is electric. In this way you will not notice when the engine will be started accelerated and stopped because it makes very low noise, and you will feel on the back of you Rolls-Royce Phantom (the electric model) just like in your bed or even better.

There is something sure about this new electric model of Rolls-Royce Phantom namely that it will be released next year or better said, after one year (anyway, it will still happen in 2010). This new electric model of Rolls-Royce Phantom will debut at 2012 London Olympics.

A big minus at this electric Rolls-Royce Phantom is that now with the lithium ion battery it will weight much more, remembering that with the big V12 engine it weights around 3 tons, but I think that with a good power, you will not feel that issue.

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Rolls-Royce RR4 Confirmed For Geneva

It’s now confirmed Rolls-Royce will use the Geneva Motor Show to unveil its latest and smallest car. Rolls has always been aimed at a more-affluent market, but CEO Tom Purves may be going after a slightly younger and different market with the new car. He says the car will be "more like a well cut sports jacket than a tuxedo [the Phantom]."

So far the car has been called the RR4, but that name will absolutely change, possibly using the historic Sliver Ghost name for production. The car Geneva Motor Show will not give any clue to the car’s final name. The concept will show up with the letter EX (for experimental) followed by a series of numbers. Although this will be a concept with an experimental name, the production car will be very close to the car shown in Geneva.

So far speculation has the engine for the RR4 coming out of BMW’s parts bin, but Purves has now confirmed that the engine will be a V12 not seen before on any BMW. In total about 80 percent of the RR4 will be unique to Rolls. Pieces that are not seen usually by the customer will be the ones shared with other products made by the corporate parent BMW.

No word yet on U.S. pricing, but estimates in the U.K. have been between £160,000 and £200,000. Which (thanks to rates favorable to the dollar) is about $240,000 and $299,000 at current rates.

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