2025 Rolls-Royce Ghost Puts V12 To Work At Goodwood: Video

Should you’ve ever puzzled what a luxurious condo on wheels going quick appears like, that is it. Exhibiting each tempo and charm, the Rolls-Royce Ghost is on the Goodwood Pageant of Velocity this weekend. Regardless of having an enormous V12 engine beneath the hood, the ultra-luxury sedan is almost as quiet because the Spectre electrical coupe that tackled the same famous hill simply a few days in the past.

The luxobarge in query is a Collection II mannequin, a advertising jargon for a facelift. Rolls-Royce discreetly updated the Ghost in October 2024, and this marks the automobile’s first look at Goodwood. It’s the usual wheelbase model relatively than the even bigger Prolonged mannequin. Nonetheless, at 5.5 meters (218 inches) lengthy, it barely eclipses the current-generation BMW 7 Collection in measurement.

The Ghost doesn’t simply drive up the hill climb course. It glides and wafts, doing so at a powerful tempo given its sheer measurement and weight. A lot of the noise you hear comes from the tires, which take a beating as the driving force threads the smallest of the Rolls-Royce sedans by means of the slender monitor.

A Rolls-Royce proprietor will virtually actually by no means push a Ghost that tough on a monitor, not to mention journey as a passenger whereas another person does. Nonetheless, it’s outstanding to see how composed this land yacht stays throughout a scorching lap at Goodwood. The air suspension has its work lower out for it, but it does a superb job of holding the automobile easy and steady.

It’s price noting this can be a common Ghost, not the extra highly effective Black Badge model. That variant has a further 29 horsepower and 37 lb-ft (50 Nm) of torque, bringing the full to 591 hp and 663 lb-ft (900 Nm). Not that the rich occupant within the again would probably discover the distinction between the 2 anyway.

The Ghost is a pure step up from a 7 Collection if you wish to keep inside the BMW Group. Quickly, ALPINA will bridge the hole between the 2 with the return of the B7, beneath a new name. Based mostly on subsequent yr’s 7 Collection facelift, it’s rumored to supply six- and eight-cylinder engines, together with electrical derivatives. Sure, an ALPINA EV is on the horizon.

If you would like twelve cylinders, you continue to have to maneuver as much as the Ghost. The venerable twin-turbo 6.75-liter engine additionally powers the even larger Phantom and the Cullinan SUV. For the way for much longer? Rolls-Royce plans to go totally electrical round 2030, so the majestic “N74” engine’s days are numbered.

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