If there’s one thing I learned at summer camp, it’s that taking your top off can change everything. Diving head-first into the water instead of lurking on the dock in my T-shirt and shorts at Lake Idonwannabehere helped me put a brave new face on being a homesick and almost constantly sticky child. Peeling the roof off of the Wraith coupe and calli

What’s New for 2018? In the past, I have described other cars as having locomotive-like thrust, but I now know I had used the term inappropriately. This car builds steam in such a linear and unending fashion, it feels like it could ultimately press on and out of the atmosphere. The Phantom VIII is only the eighth generation since 1925 a

Carmel, CA – A general rule of thumb for automotive gauges goes as such: the farther the needle swings to the right, the more stuff happens – revs, speed, noise, fun… peril. But there’s a wonderfully anachronistic dial in the Rolls-Royce gauge cluster labeled Power Reserve that turns this whole notion on its head. It harks back to the days when Rol

The automotive equivalent to “glamping” – glamourous camping – the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan allows the extravagance to continue even after the asphalt ends. For those who can’t tell the difference between Baby Duck and Dom Pérignon, the Cullinan is an exercise in unnecessary opulence, but it was nonetheless introduced to provide an element of util

In 1998 BMW acquired the rights to use the Rolls-Royce brand name, logo, Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament and grille shape. In 2003 an all-new facility opened on the grounds of the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, England. Since then, the fortunes of this once foundering prestige automaker have taken a remarkable turn. We visited this factory that in

In retrospect, it might not have been the wisest decision to pull into a Texas scrapyard in a half-million dollar 2015 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe. But we were a bit lost, needed directions, and the place just looked so damned… interesting. Let it be known, Texas junkyards are way cooler than ours. I turned the big, thin-rimmed wheel o

Rolls Royce is celebrating the Silver Ghost by adding some more silver to the Ghost with a special edition limited to just 35 vehicles. The original Silver Ghost was a 1907 40/50hp Rolls that set a then-record for longest non-stop drive. It was able to go nearly 24,000 km without a significant fault. Not exactly impressive today, but astounding

It's been one of the least kept secrets in the luxury world. But that's to be expected from what the manufacturer called "the world’s most anticipated SUV." It's the first Rolls-Royce SUV, and the Cullinan offers big. Big everything. Style, power, size, and, of course, big luxury. Rolls-Royce has gone to great lengths to let buyers know how luxu

In this fraught age of cars propelled by the nebulous concept of electricity and others threatening to take over the very task of driving, Rolls-Royce wants to remind us of the wonderment of looking up just in time to see a shooting star. But rather than having to expose yourself to the elements to do so, Rolls is inviting a handful of lucky (an

While no one would accuse the outgoing Rolls-Royce Ghost of being not “Rolls-Royce” enough, it did hang its abundant opulence on BMW’s F01 7 Series chassis, a fact that for some may have taken a bit of the sheen from this entry-level Roller. With the reimagined 2021 Ghost, that is no longer a caveat as this sedan utilizes Rolls-Royce’s own Architec

Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös says that the company will likely do electrics, but will not do hybrid cars as they head down that road. Unlike most automakers, where consumer demand helps drive the move to hybrids and alternative fuels, Rolls says that it is driven solely by regulations. After all, when your cars start north of $300,000, w

Even as the bell tolls for the Rolls-Royce Phantom, the latest variant of the Bentley Mulsanne sallies forth, larger and more powerful than ever. Behind the scenes, the parent companies of BMW and the Volkswagen Auto Group ready their biggest and most powerful dreadnoughts in a set piece battle for the wallets of the wealthy. First, it's the lon

Rolls-Royce has yet to announce how many seats there will be inside its forthcoming Cullinan, but it has revealed the SUV will have a pair of really nice chairs on the outside . The British prestige carmaker today revealed that the Cullinan will be offered with what it refers to as the "viewing suite," a pair of leather-trimmed seats that emerg

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has just unveiled a new model that they call "a seminal new concept in luxury." The newest and all-electric Rolls will also be the smallest Rolls. This is one Rolls-Royce that even the most wealthy can't buy. You see, it has been hand crafted by the Rolls Bespoke Manufacturing team for just one special client: St. Richard’s H

Rolls-Royce today previewed a limited-edition version of its Wraith model that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight. What seems at first a strange thing to commemorate with a special edition car makes more sense given that the Vickers Vimy biplane that flew from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden