The exterior is really cool IMO, the carbon black color is amazing
The interior is a disaster however, they should have sticked to the black-on-white/chrome theme and added piano black inlays or chrome accents instead of that horrible carbon fibre trim.

Haven't we seen this before? Anway the interior is just gawd-awful, the exterior a little less so.

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Love the paint. Wonder why none of the manufacturers offer mat black paint as an option.

Smart has made some special editions of forfour and roadster with mat paint.

Also Mercedes, for instance I saw a special edition of an SLK55 AMG with a matt paint.

But not as option, as special edition. Think the trend will come...

BTW, does it effect the radars and speed controls??? Would be very interested if yes...

IMO it´s a shame to do something like that to RR..those wheels(on black matte one) belong to Escalade or Hummer,not Rolls..

Sure, I would have said that if it was a Silver-Cloud, Phantom V or VI, but here... For me it has lost all the magic of a Rolls-Royce, it is just a big, ultra-luxurious car with the grill of a Rolls-Royce, but is far from its elegance, charm and class...

^^I tried to explain when I posted this car a few months ago that Rolls-Royces have always been modified ....and not always successfully -- there have been some disastrous and ridiculous Rolls-Royces in the past -- In the 1920s, one Indian Maharajah had his Rolls-Royce entirely clad in ivory; others had their Rolls-Royces studded with precious gems. One Rolls-Royce was built with the head and neck of a swan at the front (partially obscuring the drivers view ) -- so this kind of crazy stuff is all part of the tradition of Rolls-Royce -- unfortunately, it seems you just can't buy a sense of good taste .

I think it is so funny when people say things like "you can't do that to a Rolls-Royce" -- such an air of reverence has been created around this marque, some people are just so horrified that anybody would do something like this (below) to a Rolls-Royce.



.....It's as shocking as coming to the realization that Queen Elizabeth has actually had sex ...at least four times

How do you know it was really Queen Elizabeth? (sorry, forget it, blasphemous... )

Trouble is, that money does not mean good taste.

And the former Rolls were so perfect, so beautiful, so classy and elegant, that any modification was a pity. Add or remove anything to an old Rolls, and it breaks its absolute perfection. Well, may I calm down now...

What I wanted to say, is that this modifyed Phantom VI (even if only the paint is shockink) is much more schoking that the black Mansory, because the actual "Phantom" is no more the sheer prefection and class the former Rolls were. That is why the old Rolls were "sacralized".

Just look at my favourite, the Phantom V. Or at a Silver-Cloud II. What can you say? What can you add? Nothing.

But coolraoul, all Rolls-Royces were custom made before WW2 -- a buyer would aquire a chassis from the Rolls-Royce factory and then have a coachbuilder make the body. A coach builder was a company which would make the car bodies to order. The term "coachbuilder" refers to what these companies specialized in when they were started [most] in the 19th century -- building horse-drawn carriages (or coaches).

Look at this amazing Phantom I built by the Belgian coachbuilder Jonckheere.


Mulliner (which was the coachbulider owned by Rolls-Royce) made most of the Phantoms Vs, but the British coachbuilder Hooper also offered a different body style and another well known British coachbuilder, James Young, built several different body styles for the Phantom V and versions of the Silver Cloud and Bentley S models. Below I posted two Phantom Vs from the early 1960s built by two different coachbuilders. You can see they are quite different from each other.

Rolls-Royce (standard body style) phantom V built in London by Mulliner.


Phantom V built by James Young.


Here are two Phantom VIs from the early 1970s made by the Italian coachbuilder Pietro Frua.

Rob - the Jonckheere version looks amazing, are there more photos of that one ?