The new Ghost benefits from significant advances in every aspect of its creation. It adopts Rolls-Royce’s proprietary aluminium spaceframe architecture, which already underpins its flagship, Phantom, and transformative SUV, Cullinan, delivering a driving experience that is agile and engaging as it is powerful and refined.
An authentically super-luxury product, free from the constraints of platforms used to underpin high-volume vehicles, it incorporates state-of-the-art technology such as all-wheel drive and all-wheel steering. This was achieved without compromising the motor car’s low centre of gravity, which aids cornering dynamics, as well as adjustments to the placing of the new 6.75-litre V12, which have helped to achieve an optimum 50/50 weight distribution. Ghost is all-wheel-drive, and with all-wheel steering.
All of this is delivered on an enhanced Rolls-Royce magic carpet ride, featuring a suspension system so complex that it has never been applied to a production car before. Proprietary Planar software allows new Ghost to proactively adapt to intrusions in the road ahead, while a Satellite Aided Transmission system draws GPS data to pre-select the optimum gear for upcoming corners. The result is unprecedented levels of ride comfort and control for a motor car.
Capitalising on the marque’s aluminium expertise, the car’s outer body is rendered as one clean, expansive piece. The complete absence of shut lines allows clients to run their eye from the front to the rear of the car uninterrupted by ungainly body seams. This not only offers weight benefits, but the material has a lower acoustic impedance than steel, improving cabin ambience.
Self-closing doors have been enjoyed by Rolls-Royce clients since the first Goodwood Phantom, for new Ghost, the marque’s engineers elected to further develop this hallmark technology and, for the first time, clients can now also open the doors with power assistance.
Once inside, Ghost’s interior is refined, pared-back simplicity with a dedicated obsession to design and materials. All new is the Illuminated Fascia, developed over two years and more than 10,000 hours, bringing an ethereal glowing Ghost nameplate to the passenger side of the dashboard, surrounded by more than 850 stars.
The Ghost benefits from the latest safety and comfort enhancing technology, such as; LED and laser headlights with more than 600m of illuminated range, vision assist, including day- and night-time wildlife and pedestrian warning; alertness assistant; a four-camera system with panoramic view, all-round visibility and helicopter view; active cruise control; collision warning; cross-traffic warning; lane departure and lane change warning; an industry-leading 7x3 high-resolution head-up display; Wi-Fi hotspot; self-park; and the very latest navigation and entertainment systems.