There are expensive cars and there are Rolls-Royces. The distinction matters. When you sit in a Ghost for the first time, you understand that you are not in a car — you are in a moving room.
130 Kilograms of Silence
Rolls-Royce engineers fitted the Ghost with 130 kg of acoustic insulation specifically developed for this model. The architecture — an all-aluminium spaceframe — is bonded rather than welded, eliminating resonance paths. At motorway speed, the loudest sound inside is the Bespoke Audio system.
The windscreen glass alone is 6 mm thick. Door glass is 5 mm. Seals are doubled. The result: 68 decibels at 100 km/h. A typical luxury sedan registers 72–75 dB.
The Starlight Headliner
Each Starlight Headliner is fitted by hand, by a single craftsperson, over three days. Fibre-optic threads — 1,340 of them for the standard Ghost — are threaded individually through a cloth panel that will become your sky. The pattern is unique to every car ordered. Some clients request their birth constellation. Some request the view from their holiday villa.
It is, objectively, excessive. It is also extraordinarily beautiful.
The Spirit of Ecstasy
The hood ornament is hand-polished. She has been on Rolls-Royces since 1911 and she has never been anything but perfect. When you park in an unfamiliar area, she retracts into the bonnet in 0.7 seconds — electronically, automatically, silently.
What You Actually Feel
What you feel, seated in the rear of a Ghost, is the particular peace of having nothing left to want. The leather — selected hide by hide for grain uniformity — is cool to the touch. The carpet is lambswool. The armrest is wide enough to sleep on. The champagne cooler, in the optional rear console, keeps bottles at exactly 8°C.
And then the car moves. The twin-turbocharged V12 — 6.75 litres, an engine that has existed in various forms since 1959 — produces 563 hp, all of which you access via a throttle that feels like it was designed to be pleasant rather than urgent.
That is the point of a Rolls-Royce. Not performance as an end. Performance in service of the most civilised possible journey.
Book the Ghost by the hour or by the day. Available exclusively through our Elite tier or as a standalone reservation.