Archive for the 'Rolls-Royce' Category

Rolls-Royce proves its Provenance with new certified pre-owned program

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

Buying a new Rolls-Royce can be a bit more to bite off than most can chew. So for those looking to put Goodwood’s finest in their driveway but without the means for a new model, the company has announced its new certified pre-owned car program. Similar to such programs available from other automakers, Provenance involves rigorous [...]

Mini Goodwood packs the heart of a Rolls-Royce for Shanghai

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

While it may seem anathema to American tastes, in the Old World, bigger is not always better. Particularly if you live in a city laid out long before the advent of the automobile. But overseas buyers can still have extravagant tastes, so downsizing to a smaller vehicle to get around densely-packed cities shouldn’t necessarily equate [...]

Video: 27-liter, Rolls-Royce airplane-engined Rover SD1

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

Charlie Broomfield got bored of working on run-of-the-mill project cars. He always seemed to finish them to quickly, and was never quite satisfied with the results. Charlie needed a challenge to his engineering and fabrication skills. That challenge came in the form of a donated 1981 Rover SD-1. The SD-1 needed some serious help to [...]

Rolls-Royce Apparition concept messes with our heads

Friday, January 7th, 2011

To say that we see a lot of student car designs here at Autoblog would be a gross understatement. We see hundreds of ‘em. Some are more interesting than others, but every once in a while, a design comes across our desks that takes our impression of what a car can look like and completely [...]

Rolls-Royce reportedly planning to expand Ghost family with coupe, cabrio, LWB sedan

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

The new Ghost has been a runaway success for Rolls-Royce, the (relatively) more accessible saloon more than doubling its sales figures and outselling the larger Phantom by order of magnitude. And as might beexpected, the BMW subsidiary has every intention of cashing in its success with a family of new models. Much as it has with the Phantom, Rolls-Royce [...]