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The Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé is the latest convertible made by Rolls-Royce which debuted at the 2007 Detroit Motor Show on January the 7, 2007. The platform is based on the Rolls-Royce Phantom and has styling heavily derived from the 100EX concept car unveiled to celebrate the company's centennial in 2004.
The exterior remains faithful to the marine-nautical theme of the 100EX. The two-door four-seat droptop features rearward opening suicide doors and a two-tone color scheme that delineates between the upper and lower bodywork and frames the Teak wood paneling of the droptop's tonneau cover. Unlike the 2004 concept car, however, the production unit eschews the EX's bare, brushed aluminium motif in favor of painted metal.
The front fascia takes its cues from the 100EX but with the crucial difference of the middle bodywork/raised bonnet/grille assemblage terminating midway down the face rather than continuing downwards and bisecting the front bumper. The headlights are also taken straight out of the 100/101EX exercise and similarly similar to the Phantom's. The deepset rectangular high beams are an LED unit while the round "faux-foglamp" driving lights are projector-style xenons.
All in all, the car continues Rolls-Royce's current extravagant and downright decadent 1930's inspired/cold 21st century techno-modern design language began with the Phantom.
The interior is a modern avant-garde reinterpretation of the traditional English Gentlemen's Clubroom with a wide, varied pluralistic palette of design philosophies ranging from minimalism to Art Deco. Perhaps the car's main design showcase is the yachting-inspired wood veneering that wraps around the 8/9ths top portion of the cabin from suicide door to suicide door and terminating in a beautifully crafted droptop tonneau cover, hand-finished in exquisite nautical-grade Teak wood paneling sandwiched between an interior band of contrasting hardwood and the bare aluminium motif of the car's upper exterior bodywork. Similarly with the 100 and 101EX, the dashboard and the steering wheel are straight out of the Phantom.
COLOUR AND TRIM Exterior colours:
* Metropolitan Blue
* Admiral Blue
* Duck Egg Blue
* Jubilee Silver
* English White
* Semaphore Yellow
* Ensign Red
* Woodland Green
* Diamond Black
Hood colours:
* Silver
* Black
* Beige
* Deep Red
* Deep Green
* Navy Blue
Interior leather:
* Crème Light
* Black
* Fleet Blue
* Moccasin
* Pine Green
* Roseleaf
* Fawn Brown
* Dark Spice
* Consort Red
* Signal Red
Interior veneers:
* Elm Cluster
* Piano Black
* Brown Oak
* Ash Burr
* Mahogany Flare
* Rosewood World version
Engine & transmission
* Engine / cylinders / valves V / 12 / 48
* Fuel management Direct injection
* Displacement 6749 cc / 411.8 cu in
* Stroke 84.6 mm / 3.33 in
* Bore 92.0 mm / 3.62 in
* Power output @ engine speed 453 bhp / 460 PS (DIN) / 338 kW @ 5350 rpm
* Max torque @ engine speed 720 Nm / 531 lb ft @ 3500 rpm
* Compression ratio / fuel type 11:1 / premium unleaded
* Transmission type ZF 6HP32
* Transmission ratios:
* 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4.171 / 2.340 / 1.521 / 4th / 5th / 6th 1.143 / 0.867 / 0.691
* Reverse 3.403
* Final-drive ratio 3.460
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Corniche_%282000%29#2007_Phantom_Drophead_Coup.C3.A9 |
