Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will bare its new Phantom Drophead Coupe at the Detroit Motor Show on Sunday, January 7. Production of the new car will alpha at Goodwood in the summer of 2007.
The two-door, four-seat convertible is a beneath academic estimation of archetypal Rolls-Royce design. Using the failing acerbity of an all-aluminum spaceframe, it marries avant-garde technology to a sleek, automated convertible body.
Its exoteric curve answer the around-the-clock administration of the abundant Rolls-Royce cars: a continued bonnet, large-diameter wheels, abbreviate avant-garde and continued rear overhangs and the quintessential activating band bottomward forth its flanks. Inside, the architecture emphasizes the aerial artlessness of top-down motoring, all-embracing the elements and creating a stunning, amusing environment.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Chief Designer, Ian Cameron, said, "This car gave us the adventitious to anticipate about the actual attributes of convertible motoring and in accurate what it agency to Rolls-Royce. Above all we were bent to accomplish this car a joy to alive with and engineered it to accord years of effortless account to its owner."
A cardinal of appearance aboriginal apparent on 100EX, the beginning convertible apparent by Rolls-Royce in 2004, accept been engineered into the new Phantom Drophead Coupe. Two of the best visually arresting of these are the brushed animate beanie and A-pillar and the teak accessory for the rear awning cover. The brushed animate is apparatus accomplished to accord a compatible atom afore ability all-encompassing duke cutting to accomplish a absolute sheen. At the rear, the teak accessory is advised with a anxiously attenuated mix of oils to bottle a accustomed accomplishment and a continued abiding afterglow that is as admirable as it is hardy.
Front aperture drillmaster doors accept been homologated for the new car and add appreciably to the affluence of admission to the rear seat, as able-bodied as to the all-embracing aesthetics. Unique to Rolls-Royce, the doors badly transform the Phantom Drophead Coupe's looks, giving a ancillary contour evocative of archetypal sports cars of the '60s. Crucially, they additionally aid the all-embracing acerbity of the anatomy as the rear hinged doors acquiesce for an ceaseless A-pillar.
Luggage is housed aural a barbecue boot, a breach appendage alcove that opens in two genitalia giving accessible admission to the 315 liters of space. The lower tailgate provides a adequate basement belvedere for two adults back lowered. Careful engineering of the folding soft-top roof agency that it stows in a almost baby amplitude consistent in a baggage alcove that charcoal artless behindhand of whether the roof is up or down.
The bolt awning is the better of any avant-garde convertible car and its acoustic insulation is exemplary. Five layers of actual ensure that the berth charcoal a serene space, alike at speed. Lined with cashmere it has been tailored to bundle in a almost baby space.
Specifications| Chassis | |
| Brakes F/R: | ABS, vented disc/vented disc |
| Tires F-R: | n.a. |
| Driveline: | Rear Wheel Drive |
| Engine | |
| Type: | V12 |
| Displacement cu in (cc): | 412 (6748) |
| Power bhp (kW) at RPM: | 453(338) / 5350 |
| Torque lb-ft (Nm) at RPM: | 531(720) / 3500 |
| Redline at RPM: | n.a. |
| Exterior | |
| Length × Width × Height in: | n.a. |
| Weight lb (kg): | n.a. |
| Performance | |
| Acceleration 0-60 mph s: | 5.7 |
| Top Speed mph (km/h): | n.a. |
| Fuel Economy EPA city/highway mpg (l/100 km): | n.a. |
