Igniting Luxury

Roll up your sleeves and put on the seat belt as we take you on the smoothest ride in two of the most luxurious cars to have hit the road recently.

- Somnath Chatterjee

ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM

Along with its other fascinating features, the new Rolls-Royce Phantom is set to change the way you experience silence. So much so that you would want to speak in a hushed tone and well, not play any music at all. After all, it is the Rolls flagship, the ‘Rolls- Royce of Rolls-Royces’.

No wonder the car giant has gone to unheard-of lengths to make this car quiet. Sample this: it has 130 kg of sound insulation, double-laminated glass and dual-skin alloys. It also means that most of the time, you would not hear its all-new twin turbocharged V12 engine doing its work diligently.

Also, you would not believe how quickly you have whisked away to 100 kmph because it is just in 5.3 seconds, thanks to an 8-speed Satellite-Aided transmission. This, my friend, is just the tip of the iceberg.

The car also has the Flagbearer, a stereo camera system integrated into the windscreen that sees the road ahead and adjusts the suspension proactively.

One unique feature of this super luxury sedan is The Gallery. It is where automobile truly meets art, as Rolls has turned the dashboard and instrument panel area into display art, which the owners can commission. Unreal but somehow fits in beautifully in the wonderfully eccentric world of the new Phantom.