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Featured car - James May on: retro car styling
James May on: retro car styling
Why are town planners - and car designers - stuck in a rut?
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It’s here: new Rolls-Royce Wraith
With 624bhp, the new RR Wraith is the most powerful Rolls…in the world
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It’s here: new Rolls-Royce Wraith
With 624bhp, the new RR Wraith is the most powerful Rolls…in the world
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Classified ad of the week: Rolls-Royce Phantom III
To celebrate this weekend’s special, buy a surprisingly African Roller
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First pic: the new Rolls-Royce Wraith
Shady teaser image released of the most powerful Rolls-Royce model in history…
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All-new Rolls-Royce ‘Wraith’ announced
This will become the most powerful Roller… in history. New model set for Geneva debut…
All-new Rolls-Royce ‘Wraith’ announced -
Jeremy on tax
JC reckons we should be charging the super-rich for extra motoring privileges…
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Rolls-Royce Phantom off-roads
Yep, this is a new Phantom being thrashed in a field
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Rolls Phantom Coupe vs Aston Martin DB9
It's Goldfinger revisited: TG recreates the famous Aston/Rolls car chase...
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Gallery: Windsor Castle Concours
The Queen of England's favourite castle staged some of the world's finest classic machinery...
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Fancy driving the Queen around?
A new job has come up at Buckingham Palace. Have a full UK license? Step right up…
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Best of British
From ultimate luxury to the world’s most decorated car, join us as we celebrate the engineering majesty of the UK
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History lesson: coachbuilding
How 1920s coachbuilding is saving luxury car manufacturers…
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Iron Man 3: first official pic
Tony Stark suits up for next outing, but what will he have in the garage? Over to you…
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Scorcese to produce ‘Silver Ghost’ film
Award-winning director to collaborate on Rolls-Royce film
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Happy (James) May Day everybody!
Join us for a tenuous Bank Holiday pun-based excuse to trawl through Captain Slow’s finest moments…
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Meet the Rolls-Royce bespoke dept
The men behind this week's Six Senses concept reveal their greatest work to date...
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What happens if you don’t like a customer’s idea?
"If a car's deemed to be "borderline", designers come in to help steer customers away from something that conflicts with the brand. But we still do radical, though we think carefully about the car's location - some bespoke work might not look appropriate in Surrey but in the Middle East, for example, it could really work."
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Unless your name ends in Sugar, Cowell, or Dogg, you probably don't spend a lot of time buying Rolls-Royces. So you probably have no idea about its bespoke department - a division established in 2003 for one-off requests that occasionally builds its own concepts. Like the Ghost Six Senses revealed this week.
In its nine-year history the bespoke dept's modified more than 300 cars to its customers spec, which has spawned several features you'll see dangling from the current lineup. Long wheelbase models and a boot-mounted fridge both started as custom-made jobs before finding themselves on the pricelist as an option.
Demand in personal pimpification's shot up, too - last summer the chaps at Goodwood announced they'd be doubling the bespoke dept's workforce, bringing numbers up to over 50 specialists. So we thought it was about time to pop down to the West Sussex-based factory and gently probe the department's boss, Lars Klawitter.
Click forth for XXXL sumo wrestler Rollers, declined gun racks, horsehair inlays and the most expensive order the department's ever had...
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