04 June 2009 - 11:00
How not to Rolls
There are few classier ways to travel than in the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Unless, that is, you hand your Phantom over to German tuning firm Hamann for a spot of 'personalisation'.
We saw Hamann's modified BMW 7-Series earlier this week, but the Phantom - available in either hard-top or Drophead guise - makes that look veritably tasteful by comparison.
Let's start with the power. Evidently deciding that 453bhp from the 6.75-litre V12 was grossly insufficient, Hamann has bumped power up to 535bhp, with torque rising from 531lb ft to 622lb ft. The Phantom should hit 60mph in around five seconds flat, while top speed is now a truly uncouth 190mph.
But it's the visual, er, enhancements that really say, "Class? Taste? Understatement? Never heard of them..." The Hamann Phantom gets 23-inch split-rim alloys - the standard car sports far more modest 21-inchers - and (ready for this?) a sports steering wheel.
Yes, that's a sports steering wheel. In a Phantom. What next? Walnut veneer in your Atom 500? A diesel Porsche? Oh, hang on...
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Really, Hamman? You just had to go and do it..... What waswrong, why did it need a tune? WHY?? Again, stick to sports cars, for all of our sake...........
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What next? A sports-tuned Lincoln Town Car limousine?
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Kill it, kill it with fire!
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Sorry but although I'm not a fan of really any tuned cars, especially German ones, what's wrong with this other than the wheels? If they had attached a horrid body kit to it then yes but it appears they have left the body alone. If I was in the market for a Rolls Royce I would never even think about buying one over a regular Phantom but once again, other than the wheels, what's the big problem? Are there worse photographs that I haven't seen yet?
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Alex, it's simply the idea that to sports tune a Rolls Royce is like challenging the queen to an arm wrestle, it's just not.....right.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, stop it.
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The alloys are so retarded. I thought Hamann was a good man.
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Way to go !!! pimping something as vulgar as the Phantom ......genius !!!
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Oh god. Nothing is sacred. What an insult to class and luxury. They'll be pimping classic race cars next...
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Oh c'mon. There have been worse tuning jobs... Mansory anyone? Sheesh boys. Keep your panties up. The day, that the british will have the right to talk about good taste to anyone will probably never come.
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Oh c'mon. There have been worse tuning jobs... Mansory anyone? Sheesh boys. Keep your panties up. The day, that the british will have the right to talk about good taste to anyone will probably never come.
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Alex, there are just certain rules about this stuff, certain cars that you just leave alone. The Bugatti Veyron for instance, or the McLaren F1. This is like putting Nike trainers on Michaelangelo's David, or pissing in the Holy Grail. It simply should not be allowed. You don't sport tune the least sporty car in the world.
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This is an abomination! Hamann deserves to be shot for this outrage! Rolls Royce has always been the height of luxury and for those who have class or just a lot of money to blow around! The rims look awful anyways I mean this is acceptable on like a Ford Fiesta or even something big like a Hummer or Escalade but not a prestige car. Someone make an international law against the pimping of prestige cars please!
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aaaaaargh! what the hell have they done? stop it just stop it now!
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What's sad is that there are people in this world who would buy this.
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Taking a legendary car and changing it is ridiculous. Its just wrong. Is like Renault saying theyre gonna bring back the avantime but then saying its gonna be a crossover 4x4. no. just no hamann. and dont even think about touching the avantime!
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This act of treason should be followed by a beheading.
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Well noone can say that Ze Germans don't have a sense of humour albeit a warped, bizarre, twisted, very wrong sense of humour, kind of like the Chasers taking the mickey out of dying kids sort of twisted black humour. LOL this is just sooooooooo wrong! Doing something like this to a Bentley might be forgiveable but a Roller?
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its just as awful as the things they do to ferraris. awful and disturbing
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its orserm
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If they build it, we won't come.
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i think that rolls royce is snobby but that one i would buy one
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chickenfeed commented on this article
04 June 2009
'Hamann' is German for 'we are twelve, we have two brain cells between us and our designers have no synapses'. Very efficient language, German.
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