• Chapter XI – Champagne Variations

    Chapter XI – Champagne Variations

    You can baptise the new arrival in your life in many ways but what better that to do so with a soupcon of your favourite fine wine? Her Royal Highness would christen the maiden voyage of her newest sea vessel by smashing bottle against the hull of her ship, but you would be ill advised…

  • Rolls-Royce Motor Cars present WRAITH: Performance & Function

    Rolls-Royce Motor Cars present WRAITH: Performance & Function

    ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS present WRAITH (CONT.) Performance delivers on the promise of Wraith’s styling. Power delivery is effortless, but dramatic, thanks to a V12 engine married to 8-speed automatic ZF transmission. 624 bhp / 465kW is available to the driver while the 0-60 mph sprint is achieved in 4.4 seconds, compared with 563 bhp /…

  • Rolls-Royce Motor Cars present WRAITH

    Rolls-Royce Motor Cars present WRAITH

    One hundred years ago Rolls-Royce entered the gruelling 1913 Alpine trial with four 75hp cars; it won six awards, including the Archduke Leopold Cup. Under the stewardship of founding forefather Sir Henry Royce, engineering credentials that had been established through events like the London to Edinburgh top gear trial in 1911, were further reinforced by this…

  • Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II

    Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II

    The day began with two Ghosts. Ghosts, not in the ephemeral sense of the word, but as shown above, stately awe-inspiring vehicles. Little was I to know that the luxury was a merely an indicator of what was to follow – the Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II. “Like a familiar piece of music, it is open…

  • Rolls-Royce: The Finer Details

    Rolls-Royce: The Finer Details

    There is so much to take in when you first lay eyes upon a Roll-Royce Phantom Series II, some purposefully obscure, that you’ll be forgiven for missing out on some of the more intricate detailing. The whole vehicular makeup is steeped in tradition; while technology marches onwards, Rolls-Royce go through painstaking lengths to ensure that…

  • Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy

    Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy

    Often mistaken for being angelic in appearance, the story of the Spirit of Ecstasy (formerly The Spirit of Seed) is one of tragedy and romance; befitting of the historic motor it now adorns. The mystical figurine is actuality a tribute to a forbidden love, a romance that, in those times, should have never been allowed…