Performance:
- Acceleration 0 to 60: 4.8 sec
- Braking: 60 to 0: 124 feet
- Quarter Mile: 13.2 sec
- Slalom: 66.4 mph
- Skid-pad: 0.86 g
The Rolls Royce Ghost does have huge presence on the road (or indeed in the HESS parking lot). However, when you peel back its stunning sheet-metal and find out what’s underneath, you will be much less impressed. Well, actually the car that lies beneath this one is still mighty impressive, the BMW 760Li, a $139,000 super-sedan. The one thing that I can’t seem to justify, is spending $250,000 on a Rolls Royce that shares a ton of components with a BMW that costs a $100,000 less.
The whole point of a Rolls Royce is that it is supposed to be a completely bespoke, handmade car. The bigger, more expensive Rolls Royce Phantom (MSRP $382,000) is just that. It features a much more impressive interior and a completely original chasis, engine and original sheetmetal that is different from any and every other production car.
Are there good things about the Rolls Royce Ghost? Yes. The Ghost shares its powerplant with the 760Li, it’s been bored out to 6.6 liters up from 6.0, making 565 horsepower. So yes, it is way faster than the Phantom. It is also much smaller and therefore much sportier and, unsurprisingly, it handles like a BMW 760Li, oooooooh wow shocker!
I think that the Rolls Royce Ghost misses the mark of what a Rolls Royce should be. It should be relaxed, comfortable, and suprememly luxurious. The Ghost is all of those things, but it has a hard, high-performance nature about it that holds it back from being a true Rolls Royce. All it is, is a dressed up BMW 760Li.
