2018 Rolls Royce Phantom full review and road test

Well, welcome to Harry's new garage and today's car is the Rolls-Royce Phantom, this la

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newly introduced statement of luxury and the Rolls-Royce Ness. I'm very happy to have it here in the garage. I spent a few days with him. He is already there. It's an extraordinary car in many ways, there are many kinds of layers to peel back, but all this car is about is luxury and how it makes you feel and how it encases you in this cocoon of stick and just beauty, anyway, There is a lot to talk about. about this car so let's look at it in more detail this particular example is a tribute to the ghost of Sir Malcolm Campbell who bought in 1933 he was busy braking and breaking speed records and was starting to use

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36 liter two thousand three hundred engines horsepower The Ranger powers it we did a race in Florida we only got to 270 miles per hour I think it was just amazing and then we ordered this Rolls-Royce Phantom in these colors so this blue with a black roof and when we get there Inside you'll see something blue leather, a very beautiful car, it was impressive.

I think that is the best word to describe the ghost of Rolls-Royce. It's incredibly present, we should say, and when I first saw it I thought what it looks like. Same as the previous one, but it's actually one of those cars that as soon as you put them side by side, there are a lot of differences. The first thing you notice is how hard it is at the front, it comes because it is a very powerful front. In the end, it is no different and it is very aerodynamic. I'm not sure this car has ever been seen in a wind tunnel, but I'm told it has a CD factor of 0.33, which is pretty low, pretty impressive, but basically the radiator has gone into the body.

Those wings come out and they're not the type that the radio no longer has on this side and if you look at this, how the metal actually reaches here, if you look at a ghost, it's like cut off. over here, but this is a beautiful panel and it mimics this car everywhere and it's yeah, it's huge, this car sits on these particular 22 inch Sauron wheels and when you put another car next to it, I put the silver shadow next to it , just outside of interest these extraordinary the difference is 50 years of development of

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and it is a very visual statement just as the Silver Shadow did in a day they passed through the powerful front the 22-inch wheels and if the large windshield a very imposing roofline plant this is Actually the standard wheelbase is also an extended wheelbase but this is the standard one and then a big difference at the rear is a much faster rear window and it comes towards the rear of the car and this part I have to Let's say it is very similar to the previous version.

It's a bit like when you're trying to tell a new Fiat 500 from the old 800, it's easy to give away the lights and this kind of square inside the taillights, but yeah, very similar to the old Uno, but it was, yeah, make no mistake, It's a ghost Rolls-Royce. If you imagine a car like this with a pretty huge trunk, you won't have problems with space in this car if you don't use that European tool that is part of owning the rolls. -royce

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waning, the rest really is the theater about the doors and the rear hinge and just the interior, let's open it up and here we have it, an impressive interior.

Niska. I should add that the lists of ghosts that go to your Rolls-Royce showroom start at three hundred and sixty thousand pounds, this has a few options and, turning, Rolls Royces are my, I made them admit that this car in this specification is worth four hundred sixty-eight thousand pounds of rolls-royce

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. I'll show you. this in more detail, when we get out and drive, first I'll go up in the back just to give you an idea of ​​what this car is. Site done, first of all, you have the star I'm headlining. I'm a big fan of having lived with him.

I love the way I dim it and there's always this soft light inside the cars. Well, it has been very recognizable as a Rolls-Royce, a rush or a statement and then the board of this one they call it like the gallery and the idea is that you add your own work of art to it. This has kind of a perforated metal look here and it's all underneath a sheet of glass that runs between the middle air vents and when you look at the dash at one point they're round dials, they're on a separate screen and I can bring up that kind of navigation screen that appears in the middle and I've made it disappear so you can see the dash, but what a statement That's a cool feature of navigation: when you come to park, you have these amazing cameras in this car and they see everything at around you and you have this bird's eye view, what I've seen before, but what I've never seen.

Do you see this feature or if I press here and then I get kind of a virtual view outside the body of my car where it's parked and I can see around me as I walk around the car, how does that work? Sure why I need it, but it's cool. I have to show you the engine of this car. It's V12 again like in the previous Phantom, but this time with twin turbos and 6.75 liters again. I thought it's the exact same unit as on the Rafe and the Phantom, but no, those are a slightly lower CC, about 200cc less and this is a unique setup for the Phantom and at 663lbs they give a big talk, 563hp of force or there is a noticeable peak for you, the Muraki unit speaks as 1700 rpm. and this has given it a real injection of pace, this previous car, the ghost, normally aspired, was fast, but nothing liked it as dynamic as this car, so I think that's all we need to see, let's get out to take a walk just before starting.

I just want to show you a couple of cool features on the door that I forgot to mention on the garage and these doors close automatically, so all I have to do to do laundry, if I just press this button, watch it close automatically. In the back you obviously have the infamous umbrella stored in the door. What you need to know is that when you talk about these cars, it's obviously a blue umbrella. You can spec it in whatever color you have on your car and then if I do, I like the front. this will close which is very clever and the paint finish on Rolls Royce is out of scale.

I have no idea that it appears working sitting down, but it is really a mirror finish and they finish it by hand lacquering and then hand sanding it. Until you get this perfect, the first thing you need to remember when you get in and out of this car is not to leave the door wide open like you do and you sit down, it suddenly dawned on you that no, I can't get it. to the door, but that's okay because if there's also a button to close it from the inside, then you can do that. They all wore harnesses in a car and strapped themselves into a heart, yes, a four point harness and then realized they left the door open.

It's very nice to have and then you are presented with the welcome Rolls Royce and a photo of your car and then a screen appears when you open the car so it easily wakes up and looks at the water. thin wheel and it has some controls here and you have a gear change etc. there to start it. I just press a button here and it goes in. It is a service that is due in April 2019. The driving comfort temperature is restricted because I have turned the fan down so it just plays a little tune to tell me that it is seven and a half degrees outside so this is supposed to be the beginning of summer in the UK and he escaped again, disappeared in the Mediterranean or something.

It's a little cold outside, a very clear display screen comes up and I and I love the atmosphere, just this relaxing feeling, you get the start of Suzie and to move around, I made one, they're going to unlock and that's it. If you vote first, have you ever driven this car or ever gotten in it? There's a silent nurse as you save in this ease that soon becomes very addictive and it's the kind of way that Rolls-Royces are nowadays, they've kind of broken it. about the insulation and it's floating above us and this cocoon is worth dropping the window from time to time and I just saw that it's almost like you have bulletproof glass in this car, it sounds thick, it's double layered, it's double glazing and plastic in the middle, yes. impress it, so I'm going to go out of town and then first of all drive it to separate areas and I want to try it on my usual dynamic

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, as I call it, and then I'll try it in some kind of city or on a longer stretch see how both things are formed this this car has to do everything in my book let's find out if it can get out of town and I've come this way because it's really quite tight down here and then there are some obstacles.

I know it's one of those things that everything I read about this car is that it just rides amazingly and they talked to the engineers and I know they put a lot of effort into it because they have a policy of using run-flat tires and run-flat tires don't do anything. nothing to ride on especially on this car they are 22 inch wheels they pull back to the 85 40 section so yeah Continental did a lot of work my Lourdes is narrow and this is a big car yeah I put my wheels back on cameras, they stay on at speed and we see that no, they just come on for a while and that's all you get and they added that they ended up adding foam to the side tires. the walls as part of the scene one part is insulating to give you this kind of pampered drive these tires are exclusive to this car so that's the kind of effort they put into it, but here the speed bumps let's see how a speed bump handles speed not bad not bad these are pretty angry speed bumps they are long but here we go yes it is a little strong but it took well that I won't have to say another here there is a little movement it is not there it is like a spring rate low, they obviously recognized it, apparently there are two cameras that look forward and detect things.

I assume they would have detected the speed bumps and just set the damping to the lowest rate and then the spring rate. low also I say it was extraordinary, but it was smaller, you know, I didn't really have to slow down for them and come on now, let's see what it can do in a little more Chinese on Amargo Road, I had to say it's good. You can hear that there is a bit of growl from this engine completely different from the previous generation of the Phantom it has twin turbos that give it adequate performance very grateful for a water bend because they thought they found some recently and they reach the amazing speed of eleven point eight seconds 200 miles per hour, which was well ahead of the previous Fantasy version, but that's getting fast for a two and a half ton limousine, it's almost six meters long.

I want to do more performances. I just push the gearbox and then it just cuts through the higher gears and it's just in a lower gear than it normally would be and yes, it's a job to keep it at the speed limit. I must say that in this mode the steering light remains quite nice, feel free to turn the steering. Funnily enough, the prompt bothers me because it's a button if it's higher up and if I can move it, there are so many menus on this, but it's just the time I want to look through the window screen, so they're usually a little higher. down, so your where you want to look, but just sit below that, but this one seems to be right behind where I want to look and let's see what it can do over here, a little

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, it's a little soggy, the pedal boasts, no , it's a little bit out of your comfort zone, we have a lot of intermittent trap controls, yes it has a dynamic anti-roll system, so it will detect what I'm trying to do and add a maximum ante role to the cars, let's just calm it down, Yeah. it does that kind of thing a little bit under protest, but it's not something that you wouldn't go and find your favorite sour path and attack it ineffectively, let's say this part, try it a little more, there's kind of a box.

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is a lot of fun, but I don't see this car being particularly good at it, well let's find out, here we go, here's the first one, look dear, then we're ready. Oh, every day, outside the flying ghost, yes. It didn't soak them up as much as I thought it would, it's almost like it's a little restrictive in the amount of suspension travel it has. It's a surprise. I thought it would have an almost bottomless suspension and I climbed that on its springs and came back. down, but no, it got to either end of the suspension travel pretty quickly, one of those things is that it's quiet, no one can tell, but there's just no wind noise, there's nothing there, that work of zero justice, these little surprises are a kind of matter that if we come across a bad congratulations it doesn't deter the tire it doesn't take it at all it just takes it and does it without us or a second wave there is a yes, it's going well but I would rate that I think which is the best driving car I've ever owned with air springs and 22 inch wheels, but I know my silver shadow down here is amazing, it has a million other things that have a lot of wind noise and a lot of rattles.

I can hear the suspension working, but it's actual ride is better than this, but this is the best car I've been in with air springs. TeaI grant that I don't know, you could feel a tremor, there is a strange tremor. I'd expect a car like this to absorb that, but then again, I keep finding myself just going over speed, it can eat up miles, this is fine, here we go, there's a dynamic road test next. I want to try it in a typical for this gas or open dual credit. space, just look what it's like there, well I thought where we are on that stretch of road, this is the first Rolls-Royce Phantom with four wheels. drive a bit of that in the back and as you probably know the directions on the four wheels call longer low speeds when you think they sound above about six miles and how they do it, they turn the other way and it just makes It's a little more agile and I have to say you feel like here you know, your brain He says that's two and a half tons of limousine for you.

Yes, you can throw it away. It was interesting, wife, the toasting system, cool, hot cars. Fast and yet I think because it's so quiet and there's no real sense of speed, you don't realize how fast you're going, which is naughty, isn't it? Especially if you have more. There we go while running. about the scale to the highway now but there is snow, it is silenced but there is a different snore there and yes, there we are on the highway now or at its natural door just as I say, it is a wonderful car to take a trip right now, it is something I said that.

I've been lucky enough to use his car for a few days. I have to sit them down, but the equipment is on and it's because of the distance. Braids are all that. That's all smart stuff, but the buttons are pretty confusing, especially at night because See, it's an on/off reset and they're all nice and lit up at night, but you don't press them, you press a button next to where it's lit , it's a bit neat but if I want to speed up and down I press the buttons which are rubbish so it's a bit confusing yes a lot of things happen on the wheel you have to learn them but I find it strange that some buttons are illuminated when you press them and others are right next to them. where it is a minor first world problem, the radar equipment had just reached a zone 50, here they disappear, there is some road work and it works very well on theft, as you can imagine, it is a radar cruise control really sophisticated and also automatic braking. the sitting position is good the seats we had that Rafe we ​​were very lucky to go to Villa d'Este a that black that the seats are definitely better in this this this card also has a quite aggressive massage function but they get longer there There is more settings.

In fact, I stand up higher than I would normally sit in the car just because there are expansive bodies and I only want us if you want to see the corners that are useful in this car painted in a lighter blue where you have to raise. the seat, otherwise, is nothing, simply the immensity of this car is quite remarkable, it is incredible, we are cruising at 70 degrees of spinach, we are using it well to go to the power indicator that we are using, we have reserved around the 96%, very good. I barely use the capacity of the engine except this silver speed like trip computer that's pretty interested in 2600 miles on this thing on this last trip and I see the average mpg is nineteen point two mpg.

I would suggest it's pretty good, the average speed is 40 miles per hour, so having a bridge to get out of this big six point seven five liter twin turbo engine car to be able to average 90 points all the way, I think it's actually impressive and gives you such a DeMarre range. to justify this is that it's a very sensible purchase, it's not really a sensible purchase, it's just a car to enjoy, but it's pretty cool that if you have to justify it to your bank manager, let's have a good night in the other one, but it is very comfortable this speed again, I can always hear a little tiredness, but that's it, there is no wind at all, the controls, the ventilation controls with the fan speeds of soft, medium high and Max and these, these These wheels do not have digital readouts.

On a roll like this, something was a little strange when you're off your couch, with your brain just going 70 miles an hour, it never quite settles down in a straight line, you just find yourself going crazy in the direction, you don't know. calm to move forward. which is a bit unexpected to know that you don't have any problems, be very relaxed at speed, but you're just not like that. I guess that's all part of this electric power steering. It is very light at very low speeds in the city. It is extraordinarily light. and then wait while you start going a little faster, but there's a numbness in the steering of this car that I didn't notice as much as I did in the race, so there you go.

On a cruise, I won't be doing one more final test for this car and that's why I'm going to Oxford. Well, I'll pick up my son Charlie and then he'll take me because I want to know what the back is like. I've said that rear-hinged doors work very well, especially when operated that way. Now there's quite a bit of space here, as you can see, we're not just sitting there, there's a lot of space and this isn't even enough. the long wheelbase walks no, I sit down also grab the handle there I was sitting on the other side if you can see down here I press I think it's that control there that there and then look at the seat in front of you I can then those seats away, it which is actually pretty smart, so you can make even more space for yourself just by doing that.

Then down here it's quite nice when you're sitting in the back of the car, this is being able to put the seat with your feet up so there's a little thing there that then rises up where your feet are very nice, so there we go, everything what we need now is a controller, oh we have a controller lastly, obviously, some toys back here for your access, while this controller here that looks very similar to the one in the front and there's a left and a right and yeah I press right down here, lift the table it comes out and a screen comes out of the seat and I can do things if I had my phone plugged in, I can do navigation, I can just map, we're there, it smells like oxygen when zooming or a green rose, very unusual in Oxford to see we're on the other side, so I can have the media on.

I think all I can watch is the TV and I can really watch the TV because it doesn't turn off so another plus is sitting in the back of this car. It's the things that you have these buttons on the ceiling. If I press this one, I get a reading life. I also get more. the stars make all the noise and obviously this is the center step light and you know it's very bright if you want to put it on turn it down and here I have a mirror with lights for the final finishing touches just before you get there.

This is actually the sensible version. Just take a look at this center console. This one on the top step lifts up and actually has three seat belts in the back. This is the one you usually decide if you are going to have two thick seats. and a fixed center console and then you end up with an additional refrigerator in there, all of this that is somewhat more useful if you have more friends, you have this version, okay, how do you sum up this carlin? It's great to be able to experience it. in all these modes, you know the Royal Roads motorways and now in the center of Oxford, its large size simply makes an impression when you see this car outside, there is no mistaking it with any other car, it has a presence next to the Skip. charge and I guess that's what you want from this car, so I like it, I like the design.

My only question mark is whether it moved far enough from the previous Phantom. Those who know the fans will instantly recognize it as the new car. The country roads were not the most dynamic, well, no surprises there, it's not a bit, so that's not what is developing, you can do it and you are surprised, it carries a surprising amount of speed, but it is not a habitat happy actually. but then when making the distances larger it actually worked very well. I was able to cover a huge distance. It's a stress-freeze-dried Venus until you get to park it.

I guess I mainly have to figure out how it's level, however you put it. but you'll probably have it planned in advance if you're looking for such a car. This is back here. I can't understand how much space I have here even though this is the standard version. I love how media works. I also love how large the screens are and the individual controls for heating and ventilation. I think everything is magnificently thought out. I also like that the seeds have good visibility. I don't feel locked in. I have enough depth. windows that I can see, I can see my gallery, etc., so yeah, this is a really nice place to be.

Things I didn't like very much. I thought it would work a little better than before, for all the talk it's a good ride, but could they have done more if they hadn't gone with the 22 inch wheels and these 40 profile tires? I understand, it feels like, I'd like to try one on 21 inch tasks to see what it's like and also. the price, how is it? How does this car go for three hundred and sixty thousand? You can see the 468 and the specifications here. I asked a Rolls Royce guy what the most expensive one they'd made so far was and he hinted at it.

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specs, in fact it was closer to two million than 1 million. Extraordinary, the psyche of customers, this car attracts another surprise. I'm surprised it doesn't have the hybrid type of transmission, it's only v12 petrol. That's all. I remember speaking to the CEO of Rolls Royce about six months ago. I said you would. Brady said no, we'd go straight to electric. We don't need to do the hybrid. I worry that legislation will take over and politicians will have these zeros. emissions are typical in the city and you may need it, I don't know the type of place these cars will be used, will it be city centers, will they transport people.

I'm surprised it doesn't have an electrical element and the Another thing I keep thinking about is that Cullinan is coming to talk about your seat in a few weeks, how will that affect the market for this car? Because this car is always about making an impression and it's the new SUV that rolls. Royce doesn't have to say it, it's actually going to make quite an impression, we won't know until it comes out, but for now, this is the ultimate Rolls Royce, it feels like the pinnacle of Rolls Royce if you want to drive one. To drive I will continue choosing the Reef, it has better steering, is more dynamic and is more enjoyable in the front seat.

If you want to sit here from time to time go for the Phantom, it's a gorgeous car and it's been a real pleasure to have it finished. the last few days, so there you have it, that's the ghost of Rolls-Royce. I hope you enjoy the video, if you continue watching please subscribe, there will be more videos very soon.