Sometime last year, a few Photoshop gurus got together and made some very funny “mini” versions of their favorite cars. The trend caught on, and soon lots of people were taking their favorite cars, and through the process of image manipulation, made them mini versions of themselves.
Team 15 won the spirit of Gumball Award! After crashing their camouflage Rolls Royce Phantom in Belgrade they flew to Thailand and took a cab from Phuket to Bangkok. In the meantime they bought a new Rolls Royce Phantom for the US leg.
Rolls-Royce will unveil their latest experimental model at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show in March. Rolls doesn’t like to call these cars “concepts” because they’re fully functioning. Dubbed the 200EX, the concept shows Rolls-Royce’s design direction for the upcoming RR4 sedan which will debut for 2010.
Ian Robertson, Rolls-Royce Chairman and Chief Executive confirmed yesterday the fact that the British manufacturer is developing a new model code-named RR4 that will also get a brand new engine.”To date I haven’t been able to tell you much about the RR4, but I can announce today that we are developing a brand-new engine for this model series,” he said.
It's limited indeed. Rolls-Royce plans to build only 25 cars in a series called the Phantom Black. The name speaks for itself: the series is all about black. The body painted in a high luster metallic Diamond Black. 21-inch alloy wheels feature black detailing and center caps with RR badges which, I suppose, are also black.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has produced the 3,000th Phantom since the launch of the company in January 2003. It was commissioned by a UK customer through Rolls-Royce Motor Cars of London and has been delivered today.
The skies over Germany were full of trial balloons this week, as BMW chairman Helmut Panke has been teasing the German press with possible new products. In an interview with auto motor und sport (rough English translation here), Panke alludes to several possible new BMW models.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will unveil the new Phantom Drophead Coupé for the first time in Italy on the weekend of 21 - 22 April 2007, the spectacular grounds of the Grand Hotel Villa d'Este and Villa Erba in Cernobbio on Lake Como
Interesting new Rolls-Royce "experimental" coupe, which is a follow-up to the 100EX they showed two years ago. Lower, sleeker than the Phantom. No details are spared, including fiber-optically illuminated "stars" along the headliner to give the impression of driving under a starry sky. No plans for production, though.