The flagship Rolls Royce sedan, built around its back seat and meant to be arrived in, not driven.
The Rolls Royce Phantom is the flagship five seat sedan, over 5.7 meters long and built first for the back seat, with rear doors tall enough for a top hat and a glass Gallery panel for commissioned art. Renters choose it for the grandest arrival available, a formal wedding, a red carpet premiere, or a closing dinner, and chauffeur service is available.
The ride moves in long slow waves, not sharp motions, and the V12 torque arrives early and stays flat, so the Phantom gathers pace with no rising drama. That is tuned for whoever rides behind you, so it goes to the wedding, the red carpet, and the dinner where the car is the message.
The formal wedding is the default booking for the Rolls Royce Phantom, chosen by a couple who want the grandest possible car at the church or the venue gate. Red carpet and gala arrivals use the coach doors and the tall rear opening so a guest steps out facing forward, standing, toward the cameras. Closing a deal or a VIP transfer calls for the same quiet cabin the wedding does. Chauffeur service is available and is how most Phantom bookings are used, though a self drive booking suits a renter who wants to experience the driving side of the flagship rather than the back seat.
The Rolls Royce Phantom sits at the top of the range and is built in two wheelbases. Rolls Royce has also built 2 door Phantom bodies in an earlier generation. Our fleet runs the standard wheelbase sedan.
The Phantom we run is the standard wheelbase car, with 563 hp and 664 lb-ft from a 6.75 liter twin-turbo V12, rear-wheel drive and rear-wheel steering. The dashboard carries the Gallery, a sealed glass panel running its full width that holds a commissioned artwork. The rear compartment adds picnic tables, a chilled console and motorized ottomans. Chauffeur service is available.
The Phantom Extended Wheelbase adds 220 millimeters, all of it rear legroom, and unlocks the Privacy Suite, a soundproofed glass partition between the front and rear compartments. It is the protocol car of the range, built for someone who never touches the steering wheel. Mechanically it matches the standard car. We do not run one, or any of the Collection commissions.
Rolls Royce previously built 2 door Phantoms, a fixed roof Coupe and the open Drophead Coupe, both on the earlier Phantom platform and both with rear hinged coach doors. The Drophead used a teak rear deck. Both were discontinued and not replaced inside the Phantom line, and we run neither. A 2 door Rolls Royce from our fleet means the Wraith or the Dawn.