Base Price: $412,000
In 2006, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars apparent 101EX, an beginning car hand-built to analyze an agitative new architecture administration for a avant-garde coupé. Wrapped in a sleek, abandoned body, 101EX was an engineering-led study, showcasing the abstruse and architectural addition inherent in the quintessential avant-garde Rolls-Royce car. Both handsome and elegant, it encapsulated the aspect of abreast coupé style.
So absolute was the common acknowledgment to 101EX that, in autumn 2007, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars appear that a alternation archetypal would go into assembly in the summer of 2008. This coupé would complete the Phantom family, continuing alongside the Phantom, Phantom Extended Wheelbase and Phantom Drophead Coupé.
Revealed at the Salon International de l'Automobile, Geneva in March 2008, the Phantom Coupé is the third new archetypal from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars back BMW Group became babysitter of the marque in 1998.
The Coupé is the best driver-orientated archetypal in the Phantom line. A cardinal of attenuate but cogent modifications accept been fabricated that change its character. It is acutely added dynamic, whilst still alms absurd levels of abundance a antithesis not calmly achieved.
The Coupé marries cutting-edge technology with a beautifully proportioned, able-bodied anatomy that exudes ability and style. Utterly abreast in appearance, it nonetheless incorporates around-the-clock Rolls-Royce architecture cues such as the continued bonnet, large-diameter wheels, abbreviate advanced and continued rear overhangs and the archetypal dynamic, ascent profile.
Pleasing to the blow and to the eye, every actual acclimated in the Phantom Coupé has been anxiously called to amalgamate anatomy with function. The cabin's awe-inspiring leather, affluent copse grains and air-conditioned chrome accents actualize a disciplinarian ambiance unparalleled in affluence and comfort.
Designed to awning abundant distances with the minimum of fuss, the Coupé is a abstract best for a transcontinental trip, its effortless ability provided by the Phantom's 6.75-litre V12, bearing a astounding 453 bhp and 720 Nm of torque. Agile, fast, gangling and around silent, the Phantom Coupé allows both disciplinarian and cartage to appear unruffled, alike afterwards an all-day run.
Specifications| Chassis | |
| Brakes (Front) | Ventilated disc / 374 mm / 14.7 in |
| Brakes (Rear) | Ventilated disc / 370 mm / 14.6 in |
| Wheels | Goodyear EMT 255/50 R21 106W |
| Wheel Size Front | 8 in x 21 in |
| Wheel Size Rear | 9.5 in x 21 in |
| Turning Diameter | 13.1 m / 43.0 ft |
| Engine | |
| Engine Type | Gas V12 |
| Displacement | 6749 cc / 411.8 cu in |
| Stroke | 84.6 mm / 3.33 in |
| Bore | 92.0 mm / 3.62 in |
| Horsepower @ RPM | 453@5350 |
| Torque @ RPM | 531@3500 |
| Exterior | |
| Curb Weight | 2630 kg / 5798 lb |
| Length | 220.8 in |
| Width | 78.2 in |
| Height | 62.7 in |
| Wheelbase | 130.7 in |
| Performance | |
| Top Speed | 155 mph |
| Acceleration 0-60 mph | 5.6 sec |
| Fuel Economy | 18.0 mpg |
| Fuel Capacity | 26.4 US gal |
