SPIED: Next generation Rolls-Royce Phantom on test, uses new aluminium space-frame platform

This is the new Rolls-Royce Phantom, which will be built on the company’s new aluminium space-frame platform first announced back in February 2015.

The new platform will underpin all its future models arriving from early 2018, including an SUV. The current testing phase aims to ensure that the new proprietary space-frame structure perfectly delivers Rolls-Royce’s trademark “magic-carpet ride” on a variety of surfaces and that it is resilient to extreme weather conditions.

This Phantom mule still wears plenty of camo so we cannot see much details, but you can’t run very far from how a Rolls-Royce sedan is supposed to look like, so the classic proportions are there.

We expect the new Phantom to continue being available with a V12 engine since at this end of the market, we doubt anyone’s particularly concerned with engine downsizing.

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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Comments

  • Like someone said “Wah, RR so poor, need to stick old newspaper on their car”

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  • heybadigol (Member) on Jan 27, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    Won’t be long before we get some spyshots of it running around the Nurburgring.

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  • tinmilo on Jan 28, 2016 at 10:36 am

    The Phantom to me is the proper RR.

    I have seen a few Ghost on the street, just doesn’t have that presence that a RR deserved. It doesn’t feel a cut above the Merc and BMW.

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