The Rolls Royce Ghost in white with a black and red interior is the all-wheel-drive saloon in our Los Angeles fleet, the newer and more deliberate of the two Ghosts we run. A two-tone cabin and illuminated dashboard read modern the moment a coach door opens. Book this one for an evening arrival or client dinner where the car should feel current rather than classic.
This Ghost runs a 6.75 liter twin turbo V12 through all four wheels, with rear steer that tightens the turning circle at low speed and settles the car at highway pace. Peak torque arrives low enough that the car glides away from a stop with no sensation of an engine working at all, only the Power Reserve gauge quivering to prove it is running. The illuminated dashboard lights the passenger side with hundreds of tiny points the moment you start the car, a detail this Ghost carries standard that the other one in our fleet does not. Steering is light and fingertip quick, so threading West Hollywood traffic or a hillside driveway in the Hollywood Hills takes less effort than the car's size suggests.
White paint over a black and red cabin is the sharper of our two Ghost interiors, and the red only shows itself once a coach door swings open, which is the frame to build a shoot around. Outside, in Los Angeles evening light along Rodeo Drive or West Hollywood, the white body reads clean and current rather than bridal. Inside, the black surfaces keep the cabin from reading soft, and the red accents carry the colour the exterior withholds. Shoot the exterior in daylight and save the interior reveal for a lit doorway or a valet stand at dusk, where the illuminated dashboard adds its own point of light to the frame.
We run two Ghosts, and this is the newer, all-wheel-drive one with the black and red interior rather than the all-white cabin on the other car. Book this one when the occasion wants a modern, deliberate read rather than a classic one, a dinner rather than a church, a launch event rather than a ceremony. It also carries the Illuminated Fascia and standard Starlight Headliner that the earlier Ghost does not, so the cabin itself is part of the case for choosing it. The other Ghost is rear-wheel drive, all white, and reads calmer. This one reads current. Pick based on what the day is actually for.
This is the Ghost trim in white over a black and red interior, all-wheel drive with rear steer, powered by a 6.75 liter twin turbo V12 making 563 horsepower and 627 lb-ft of torque. It is the newer of the two Ghost builds we run, and it carries the Illuminated Fascia and the Starlight Headliner as standard equipment, both fitted to this generation of Ghost from the factory. The coach doors close themselves from a C-pillar button, the wheel centres stay upright at any speed, and the Spirit of Ecstasy retracts into the bonnet when the car is locked. Zero to sixty comes in 4.6 seconds and it seats five across four doors.