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The new drop-top Rolls-Royce Dawn is a glorious 250,000 luxury land yacht that"s so good, we recently crowned it Top Gear"s Luxury Car of The Year.But the wonderfully elegant 5.3-metre soft-top Wraith isn"t good enough for some people. Folk like infamous tuning house, Mansory.Those fidgety-fingered guys in Mansory"s Bavarian factory just can"t leave anything alone. Be it a Lamborghini Aventador SV, Mercedes S63 Coupe, or even a jet-ski, if the panels can be removed, wheels taken off and engine bay opened, it"ll be given the special Mansory once over.However, on a scale of one to Carbonardo, the firm"s reworking of the Roller is incredibly restrained; the engine bay is where the most extensive changes have been made.Using the same powertrain as the Ghost rather than the Wraith the Dawn"s 6.6-litre V12 has always been down on power compared to its hardtop brother (563bhp compared to the big coupe"s 624). Mansory thought it"d fix that by juicing it up to 740bhp. However, being such a heavy lump, all that extra power only improves the 0-62mph time by 0.2 seconds.
Date written: 20 Apr 2016
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ID: 3065
The new drop-top Rolls-Royce Dawn is a glorious 250,000 luxury land yacht that"s so good, we recently crowned it Top Gear"s Luxury Car of The Year.But the wonderfully elegant 5.3-metre soft-top Wraith isn"t good enough for some people. Folk like infamous tuning house, Mansory.Those fidgety-fingered guys in Mansory"s Bavarian factory just can"t leave anything alone. Be it a Lamborghini Aventador SV, Mercedes S63 Coupe, or even a jet-ski, if the panels can be removed, wheels taken off and engine bay opened, it"ll be given the special Mansory once over.However, on a scale of one to Carbonardo, the firm"s reworking of the Roller is incredibly restrained; the engine bay is where the most extensive changes have been made.Using the same powertrain as the Ghost rather than the Wraith the Dawn"s 6.6-litre V12 has always been down on power compared to its hardtop brother (563bhp compared to the big coupe"s 624). Mansory thought it"d fix that by juicing it up to 740bhp. However, being such a heavy lump, all that extra power only improves the 0-62mph time by 0.2 seconds.
Date written: 20 Apr 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3065