The Rolls Royce Ghost in white with a white interior is the rear-wheel-drive saloon in our Los Angeles fleet, the calmer of the two Ghosts we run. All white throughout, it reads as a wedding car or a quiet client pickup rather than a statement. Book this one when the day calls for quiet rather than spectacle, at our lower Ghost rate.
Rolls tuned this generation of Ghost around a twin turbo 6.6 liter V12 that produces peak torque low enough that you never hear it working. There is no rev counter, only a Power Reserve gauge that quivers under load, and the steering is light enough to guide with your fingertips from the first block. Rear-wheel drive keeps the low speed manners simple, which matters more in Los Angeles traffic than outright grip ever will. Take it up Mulholland Drive on a clear night and the car settles into long, easy sweepers rather than fighting them, asking for a slower hand than instinct suggests. At a stop on Sunset the V12 idles low enough that you will look for a tachometer that is not there.
White on white is the hardest interior to make interesting and the easiest to make look expensive, and this Ghost does the second one. Against Los Angeles daylight the cabin reads bright and clean rather than flashy, which is why it is the Ghost booked for wedding stills outside a Beverly Hills hotel rather than a night shoot on Sunset. Shoot it in open shade around midday so the white leather does not blow out, and let the chrome grille carry the contrast the cabin does not. Open a rear coach door and the interior photographs as one continuous pale surface, calm rather than dramatic, which is the point of booking this one over the other Ghost.
We run two Ghosts and this is the all-white one, rear-wheel drive, without the newer car's black and red cabin. Book this over the other Ghost when the occasion wants restraint rather than a statement, a wedding, a funeral procession, a formal client pickup where a two-tone cabin would read as trying too hard. It also carries the lower daily rate of the two, which makes it the sensible way into a V12 Rolls Royce in Los Angeles rather than the showiest one. The other Ghost is all-wheel drive with a black and red interior and reads younger and more deliberate. This one reads calm. If the booking is about the occasion rather than the car itself, this is the Ghost to choose.
This is the Ghost trim in white over a matching white interior, rear-wheel drive, powered by a 6.6 liter twin turbo V12 making 563 horsepower and 575 lb-ft of torque. It is the earlier of the two Ghost builds we run, and it carries the coach doors that close themselves from a C-pillar button, the self-righting wheel centres that stay upright at any speed, and the retracting Spirit of Ecstasy on the bonnet. The cabin is finished entirely in white leather rather than a contrasting colour, which is the detail that sets this car apart from the black and red Ghost we also keep. Top speed is limited to 155 miles per hour and it seats five across four doors.