Rolls-Royce Phantom review
Rolls-Royce Phantom 6.8 V12 Road Test
Test date 02 April 2003
Price as tested £285,200
The new Rolls-Royce was never going to be the best car in the world. To merit that title today, a car would have to display practical virtues irrelevant to a Rolls. In any case, the firm stopped making that claim for its cars half a century ago. But BMW was never in any doubt about the kind of car it had to build to bear the grille, mascot and name it bought in 1998. Rolls-Royce has entered the lexicon as shorthand for refinement and craftsmanship regardless of price. BMW and its new factory at Goodwood had to build, from scratch, literally and figuratively, the Rolls-Royce of motor cars.
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