sunrunner_pei
01-30-2008, 05:00 PM
Filed under: Spy Photos (http://www.autoblog.com/category/spyphotos/), Sedans/Saloons (http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/), Rolls-Royce (http://www.autoblog.com/category/rolls-royce/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/rr4_warm_spy.jpg (http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/230570/)The newer, smaller Rolls-Royce, which will still be quite large as cars go, has been spotted running around in warmer climes quite a ways south of its previous sighting in the arctic tundra (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/15/spy-shots-baby-rolls-nabbed/). Expected to roll into 5-star showrooms before the end of 2010, you will need about £175,000 to get it from the dealer's heated garage into yours. If the spy shots are any indication, just because you're spending... ahem, less... doesn't mean it won't look like a Roller. The signature long-bonnet-to-bowing-boot is readily apparent.
The platform will be shared with the next generation 7-Series (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/18/rendered-speculation-2009-bmw-7-series/), but will have a unique wheelbase, roof and hood height, and track. Inside, sharing will supposedly be restricted to things invisible to the driver. Engines will also be unique to Rolls-Royce, though developed from BMW engines such as the 407-hp twin-turbo V8 from the X6. And with Rolls in a brand new position in terms of volume, cachet and straight-up cash, the company is exploring something that would have been unthinkable not too long ago: a diesel. All that young money snapping up Phantoms means, in the words of a mole at Rolls, "the old-money buyers who might have been put off by the idea of a diesel engine are becoming a much less important part of our customer base."
[Source: Autocar]
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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/rr4_warm_spy.jpg (http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/230570/)The newer, smaller Rolls-Royce, which will still be quite large as cars go, has been spotted running around in warmer climes quite a ways south of its previous sighting in the arctic tundra (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/15/spy-shots-baby-rolls-nabbed/). Expected to roll into 5-star showrooms before the end of 2010, you will need about £175,000 to get it from the dealer's heated garage into yours. If the spy shots are any indication, just because you're spending... ahem, less... doesn't mean it won't look like a Roller. The signature long-bonnet-to-bowing-boot is readily apparent.
The platform will be shared with the next generation 7-Series (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/18/rendered-speculation-2009-bmw-7-series/), but will have a unique wheelbase, roof and hood height, and track. Inside, sharing will supposedly be restricted to things invisible to the driver. Engines will also be unique to Rolls-Royce, though developed from BMW engines such as the 407-hp twin-turbo V8 from the X6. And with Rolls in a brand new position in terms of volume, cachet and straight-up cash, the company is exploring something that would have been unthinkable not too long ago: a diesel. All that young money snapping up Phantoms means, in the words of a mole at Rolls, "the old-money buyers who might have been put off by the idea of a diesel engine are becoming a much less important part of our customer base."
[Source: Autocar]
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