The Rolls Royce built to be understated, quiet enough to drive yourself or hand to a chauffeur.
The Rolls Royce Ghost is the five seat Rolls Royce sedan built to skip flash and read as arrived rather than announced, shorter and easier to park than a Phantom. It goes to corporate transfers, weddings that want the presence without a Phantom's length, and nights out, and chauffeur service is available for renters who would rather ride.
The steering is light, guided with two fingers rather than gripped, and torque arrives immediately rather than building with revs, so the car gathers speed with no rising engine note. That makes the Ghost the Rolls Royce you drive to dinner as readily as you are carried there.
Executives who need a client pickup where a smaller sedan undersells the meeting and a Phantom oversells it book the Rolls Royce Ghost most often. Wedding parties who want the classic Rolls Royce saloon rather than the longer, more formal Phantom choose it as well. Anniversary and birthday bookings where the point is a quiet cabin rather than a grand entrance suit the Ghost too, and a small group or family traveling together fits comfortably across its five seats and full trunk. Chauffeur service is available for renters who would rather ride in the back than drive, though most Ghost bookings are self driven, which sets it apart from the Phantom's usual booking pattern.
The Rolls Royce Ghost range covers 3 cars, the standard Ghost, the long wheelbase Ghost Extended and the darkened Ghost Black Badge. Our fleet runs the standard Ghost, the most understated car in the range.
The standard Ghost we run makes 563 hp from a twin-turbo V12. The steering is light and the cabin is near silent at idle. A Power Reserve gauge sits where a rev counter would go, there are picnic tables in the seatbacks and no paddle shifters anywhere, and the column shifter sits where another car puts a wiper stalk. Chauffeur service is available.
The Ghost Extended adds 170 millimeters to the wheelbase and every millimeter of it goes to rear legroom. Rolls Royce builds it for the owner who is driven rather than driving, and it is the version most often specified with rear theatre screens and the larger cool box. Everything ahead of the rear doors matches the standard car. We do not run one.
The Ghost Black Badge raises output to 591 hp and 664 lb-ft, finishes the grille, the Spirit of Ecstasy and the window surrounds in dark chrome, and fits composite wheels. The Low mode sharpens the shifts and gives the exhaust a harder edge, and the suspension and steering are retuned to suit. We do not run one, so every Ghost we run is the chrome faced standard car.