FUTURE MODELS:
Roll-out of ultimate benchmark of luxury
Rolls-Royce has revealed the eighth generation of its luxury flagship, the Phantom, writes Mark Smyth
July 2017 was a historic month for the global automotive industry. It will be remembered as the month when car makers and governments tripped over themselves to make announcements on alternative fuels, electrification and the future demise of the internal combustion engine. Many will see it as the real start of a revolution, a month when the game changed completely and when lower emissions, the environment and our health and wellbeing came to the forefront. Meanwhile, over at Rolls-Royce, it will be remembered as the month when it launched the eighth generation of the Phantom. Traditionalists need not panic, for now there is no sign of an electric Roller — but it will come. Instead beneath that long bonnet sits a 6.75l twin-turbo V12 pushing out 420kW and 900Nm. But a Phantom is never about power, at least not in a sports car kind of way. It is about how that power makes hauling a couple of tonnes of luxury more effortless.
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