Rolls-Royce Ghost Extended Wheelbase Named Best Super Luxury Car by What Car?
The judges on the What Automobile? Awards, probably the most essential measures of success within the automotive calendar, have as soon as once more declared Ghost the very best super-luxury automobile on this planet, finishing a hat-trick of victories for Ghost family motor automobiles in its most prestigious class, luxurious automobiles over £100,000.
In awarding Ghost Extended Wheelbase the What Car? judges praised the automobile for its excellent marriage of driving dynamics and supremacy because the consummate entrepreneurs limousine:
“Designed because the Rolls-Royce for the owner who’d choose to spend a while in the driver’s seat, the Ghost provides the category and attention-to-detail the brand is known for. Beneath its bonnet is a 6.6-litre twin-turbo V12 that’s as discreet as it’s potent. The ride may be very forgiving, and the light however exact steering makes this huge automobile surprisingly simple to position and manoeuvre. When you’d fairly make use of someone else to do the driving, the Ghost will perform effectively as a chauffeur-driven limousine – this Extended Wheelbase model will get reclining rear seats and an additional 17cm of leg room over the already spacious normal Ghost.”
Since its launch in 2011, Ghost Extended Wheelbase has completely mixed Ghost’s hallmark easy simplicity, cutting-edge know-how and contemporary interpretation of Rolls-Royce design language with the more indulgent proportions of an Extended Wheelbase chauffer-driven motor automobile. This distinctive mix, married to a peerless scope for Bespoke personalisation, has endeared a brand new generation of successful entrepreneurs to the marque – taking its place as the ultimate symbol of attainment for the influential women and men that drive our economies and create wealth. In 2016 Ghost was introduced in a brand new guise with the introduction of the Black Badge collection. This genuine design and engineering assertion serves as a very Bespoke response, befitting the world’s most celebrated luxurious home, to the wishes of a extremely artistic, dynamic new breed of entrepreneur.
“Accolades like this reaffirm Ghost’s standing as the final word assertion of attainment for the world’s most successful entrepreneurs,” mentioned Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. “Since its introduction Ghost has stood alone in conveying the world’s wealth creators a extremely modern, much less formal interpretation of true luxurious. This continuing success and important acclaim from the business’s landmark Awards is very gratifying for everybody involved with crafting the ‘Best Cars within the World’ at our centre of excellence in Goodwood, England.”
This crucial acclaim is echoed in sustained buyer demand. Ghost additionally performed a significant function in contributing to the second highest sales ends in the marque’s historical past in 2016 – emphatically affirming its standing because the business limousine of selection. Certainly, Ghost completely dominates the super-luxury class (€200,000+).
This honour follows success within the UK Car of the 12 months Awards for Dawn and provides to the quite a few international accolades Ghost has loved since its first introduction in 2009 adopted by a delicate evolution in 2014 with the launch of Ghost Series II.