2015 Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II - Car and Driver (blog)
For those who desire sybaritic luxury and a spirited driving experience in the same ultra-pricey motorcar, the Ghost Series II is your answer. First Drive Review – 2015 Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II If you’re truly wealthy, you’re not visiting your local Rolls-Royce dealership to buy a Ghost , but rather a Phantom , at a price that starts just above $400,000 but can require adding a... The Ghost, while still outrageously expensive at $291,350, is for the merely rich. Recognizing that money can be a sensitive subject in the wake of increasing income disparity in the United States, Rolls-Royce executives incessantly throw around the word “entrepreneur” to describe their Ghost clients. Other myths punctuate the Rolls-Royce narrative: 60 craftsmen in Goodwood spend some 450 hours laboring over each custom, hand-finished automobile. Rolls-Royce says that in excess of 85 percent of the 4000 cars it will sell this year are bespoke, which means that if a buyer has a grove of trees on his estate, for example, he may choose to have some of that wood included in the interior trim. With this clash between the traditional staid Rolls-Royce idioms (“Fetch the car, Alfred. Source: www.caranddriver.com
