inspired by Bentley's grand touring tradition, the GT Convertible combines luxury, stunning performance and open air motoring – for up to four people.
The Continental is two cars in one: it’s an effortless, quiet, comfortable cruiser with a sumptuous interior of unrivalled craftsmanship, where wood veneers work with leather hides of the highest quality. But push the throttle and, as the exhaust note deepens, the turbocharged engine begins to demonstrate the vehicle's stunning performance.
"Baby" Rolls Royce Ghost just about will officially enter the rights of new serial model — to a car premiere there was any month.
To be polished in native walls and to expect, while deliver to the Frankfurt motor show so is not present, "British" drives about till now on vicinities of Germany.
New Rolls Royce yet "have not up to the end ground" a radiator lattice, and as a whole, lux-sedan is already ready to becoming someone's property. Judging by photos, serial Ghost will differ not strongly from the conceptual sample — 200 EX. Rolls Royce Ghost will keep the same back doors — of "suicide" (the doors opened against movement), the same aluminium cowl...
"Younger brother" Phantom will receive 6,6-litre turbo-motor V12 power of 570HP (780Nm), and in addition — 8-speed automatic transmission ZF. The maximum speed which "Ghost" is capable to develop is limited by electronics on a mark of 250 km/h, dispersal to hundred makes 4,7 seconds. Rolls Royce Ghost will appear on sale in Europe more close by the end of current year, and in other world markets — spring of 2010.
Family Pininfarina owning well-known design company Pininfarina SpA, has employed Italian Banca Leonardo for sale of a control package of the firm, has informed a source in the company. As informs Reuters, sale of a package of the developer of design for various models Ferrari, Maserati, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Jaguar, Volvo, Alfa Romeo and Lancia is a transaction part on settlement of debts Pininfarina before banks.
Company Pincar which supervises family actives, at the same time, a family completely does not leave completely with Pininfarina SpA, and reserves the right to itself the full participant of board of directors. As the future investors are called French financier Vincent Bollore and Indian Tata Motors Ltd. In a consortium with Fiat SpA.
The studio of autodesign Pininfarina is created in the thirtieth years of last century and is since then family business. In the company work about 3 thousand persons. The company has started to experience financial difficulties still couple of years back. So, in April, 2008 Pininfarina has officially informed on the intention to sell 25% of actives. The Italian company planned to direct a part of this money to firm Bollore for payment of creation of an electromobile.
Company Rolls-Royce has published specifications and cost of new model Ghost which will be shown for the first time in Frankfurt.
Under a cowl at the car 563-strong 6,6-litre turbo-engine V12 hides. To 100 km/h Ghost it's dispersed for 4,7 seconds and the maximum speed is limited 248 km/h. The car is equipped by a new eight-step automatic transmission.
Cost Ghost, without taxes and delivery, will make 165 thousand pounds sterling. Together with additional expenses the price will rise to 190 thousand pounds sterling. Car delivery across Europe will begin in the end of this year, and to the USA and Asia — spring of the following, writes magazine Car.
The new model of company Rolls-Royce — sedan Ghost — begins to be equipped with an "intellectual" pneumatic suspension bracket which will work together with adaptive shock-absorbers with electronic control.
Suspension bracket work will be supervised by the computer which can read out each 2,5 milliseconds the information from special gauges on each shock-absorber, arranging their work under concrete road conditions. Thus in Rolls-Royce have noticed, that sensor controls of a pneumatic suspension bracket are so sensitive, that are capable to define moving of the person on the one hand a back row of armchairs on another. Besides, for simplification of planting in the car or journey, for example, "lying policemen" the road gleam of a sedan can decrease or increase by 25 millimetres.
As it was informed earlier, appearance of a novelty will be created in style of the conceptual car 200EX, for the first time presented in March on automobile show in Geneva, and sedan Ghost will borrow a platform at BMW 7-Series Long. Under a cowl of the most tiny model Rolls-Royce (Ghost almost on 44 centimetres is shorter Phantom) there will be a 6,6-litre 12-cylinder turbo-engine power of 544 horsepowers. To be aggregated the motor begins with an eight-step automatic transmission of company ZF. It's expected, that the world premiere of serial sedan Rolls-Royce Ghost will take place in September of current year on automobile show in Frankfurt.
inspired by Bentley's grand touring tradition, the GT Convertible combines luxury, stunning performance and open air motoring – for up to four people.
The Continental is two cars in one: it’s an effortless, quiet, comfortable cruiser with a sumptuous interior of unrivalled craftsmanship, where wood veneers work with leather hides of the highest quality. But push the throttle and, as the exhaust note deepens, the turbocharged engine begins to demonstrate the vehicle's stunning performance.
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