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Written by Tom Harrison
Rolls Royce does bespoke-ry like no other manufacturer. So to this week"s Geneva Motor Show it"s bringing three "distinct customer visions", each commissioned by a "discerning connoisseur of luxury", and destined to "demonstrate why Rolls-Royce is a Luxury House in the business of motor cars and the by-word for Bespoke". We"re gonna let Rolls itself do a lot of the explaining on this one. Let"s just say it has a way with words So, first is The Gentleman"s Tourer" (kid ye not), a Phantom Rolls says "harks back to the era of the grandest of Grand Tourers the Phantom II Continental Saloons of the Thirties". These were four-door, SWB Phantoms driven by their owners on long, cross-country journeys, so specified for "driving endurance rather than show". This Phantom is therefore finished in a special Iced Gunmetal" shade of grey developed to appeal to this customer"s interest in aviation. Inside it"s all greys and blacks, and in the Gallery" (a panel of toughened glass runs the full width of the Phantom"s dashboard. You can put whatever you want in there) sits a sculpture in Ruthenium". Just 20 tonnes of this precious metal are mined annually, compared to 2,500 tonnes of gold. Imagine the . Then we have two EWB Phantoms, the first to be commissioned with "completely one-off, artist designed Galleries. Whispered Muse" has a Gallery designed by British artist Helen Amy Murray. In Rolls" words: "By creating different planes in silk through directional sculpting, Helen has created individual contours, beautiful in their own right, that fuse together to resolve in a partial image of the Spirit of Ecstasy"s dress flowing backwards from her neck." Elsewhere you"ve got "two-tone Selby Grey and Palais Nemaskar Dawn" paint, rose gold detailing and front/rear-seats in trimmed in two different leathers.
Date written: 5 Mar 2018
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ID: 11064
Rolls Royce does bespoke-ry like no other manufacturer. So to this week"s Geneva Motor Show it"s bringing three "distinct customer visions", each commissioned by a "discerning connoisseur of luxury", and destined to "demonstrate why Rolls-Royce is a Luxury House in the business of motor cars and the by-word for Bespoke". We"re gonna let Rolls itself do a lot of the explaining on this one. Let"s just say it has a way with words So, first is The Gentleman"s Tourer" (kid ye not), a Phantom Rolls says "harks back to the era of the grandest of Grand Tourers the Phantom II Continental Saloons of the Thirties". These were four-door, SWB Phantoms driven by their owners on long, cross-country journeys, so specified for "driving endurance rather than show". This Phantom is therefore finished in a special Iced Gunmetal" shade of grey developed to appeal to this customer"s interest in aviation. Inside it"s all greys and blacks, and in the Gallery" (a panel of toughened glass runs the full width of the Phantom"s dashboard. You can put whatever you want in there) sits a sculpture in Ruthenium". Just 20 tonnes of this precious metal are mined annually, compared to 2,500 tonnes of gold. Imagine the . Then we have two EWB Phantoms, the first to be commissioned with "completely one-off, artist designed Galleries. Whispered Muse" has a Gallery designed by British artist Helen Amy Murray. In Rolls" words: "By creating different planes in silk through directional sculpting, Helen has created individual contours, beautiful in their own right, that fuse together to resolve in a partial image of the Spirit of Ecstasy"s dress flowing backwards from her neck." Elsewhere you"ve got "two-tone Selby Grey and Palais Nemaskar Dawn" paint, rose gold detailing and front/rear-seats in trimmed in two different leathers.
Date written: 5 Mar 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 11064