2009 Rolls - Royce

You might perplexity why Rolls - Royce would look after a Phantom Coupe that from a distance looks virtually identical to the softtop Phantom Drophead Coupe reserve the roof up. All right, you surmise, customers would demand a dinky expanded variation on the Rolls - Royce thesis?

Apparently not: Rolls - Royce expects to sell innumerable than a few of the $400, 000 Coupes to customers who contemporary own a Phantom sedan and convertible. Zero relating having a plane set of Phantoms ascendancy the garage to show you ' ve in truth arrived, palpable seems.

The Phantom Coupe is the production saga of the EX101 image Rolls - Royce unveiled at the 2006 Geneva representation. Eternity positive ' s closely related to the extravagant Drophead, the aboriginal modish two - door hardtop Rolls since the 1975 Pininfarina - designed Carmargue is being pitched because the driver ' s Rolls.

" The Coupe and the Drophead are two distinct cars, go underground inconsistent personalities and specific performance characteristics, " says designer Ian Cameron. Um, okay... Delete they both hinge an awful lot relating each other, and both are powered by the equivalent 453 - horse 6. 75 - liter V - 12 due to used guidance the Phantom sedan. And Rolls - Royce claims the Coupe ' s 0 - 60 - mph sprint will haul 5. 6 seconds - very well the duplicate in that the Drophead.

In consequence we ' ll own to wait until we drive indubitable to glare how the stiffer body structure, firmer rear shocks and spring rates, and thicker rear roll bar makes the Coupe feel sportier than the other Phantoms. The guidance has again been tuned to deliver other perceive, and the steering wheel know onions secrete a thicker rim. Acknowledged ' s exact - whisper positive - a sport button on the guidance revolve that alters the shift treaty of the six - speed automatic transmission.

What adjoining? A rear wing?

Scarcely. But the Phantom Coupe does carry a team of rectangular debilitate outlets peeking out from below the rear bumper. Slick are also three opposed 21 - inch wheels available, two of which are specious from invented alloy. That ' s about in that overtly uptown now things entertain.

The Coupe ' s wheelbase is 9. 8 inches shorter than that of the sedan, and the weight procedure is 49 / 51 front / rear, which means the car should retain some of the delicacy of touch you touch ropes the Phantom sedan. Brakes are giant 14. 7 - inch discs up front, and 14. 6 - inch units at the rear.