With gloved white fingers pointing in their direction, Geely Automobile is in full denial of British accusations. The independent Chinese automaker, which rolled out its luxurious GE model bearing more than slight resemblance to the Rolls-Royce Phantom at the Shanghai Motor Show, seems rather unconcerned. “As it were, they are actually different … people may [...]
Earlier this week, we showed you the first live shots of Chinese automaker Geely’s new GE model, a three-seat luxury sedan unveiled at the Shanghai Motor Show. With its gigantic, upright waterfall grille, boxy proportions, Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament, and LED starlight headliner, it didn’t take an enthusiast’s eye to see that Geely is [...]
Asian consumers loves them some baroque styling. How else to explain the popularity of gaudy, over-the-top couture in the continent’s major city centers? Indeed, how else to explain the existence of cars like the Mitsuoka Galue S50 and Galue 204? Proving that the love affair is still very much still alive is this, the Geely [...]
At the Shanghai Motor Show this morning, Rolls-Royce finally put the temporary RR4 moniker to rest by officially naming its new Flying Spur-fighting sedan the “Ghost.” Shown in concept form as the 200EX at last month’s Geneva Motor Show, the Ghost will be built later this year on a separate assembly line at the automaker’s [...]
In an ideal world, who wouldn’t want to have a distinguished coachbuilder like Pininfarina create their own unique Rolls-Royce cabrio? Unfortunately, an ideal world this is not, and most of us don’t have those kinds of resources at our disposal. “Most of us” apparently now includes the customer that commissioned the one-off Rolls-Royce Hyperion in [...]
Historically, Rolls-Royce has somewhat smugly declined to quote horsepower numbers, utilizing amusingly evasive language like “entirely sufficient” to describe its engines’ power outputs. Perhaps a sign of the times, Rolls is now being a bit more forthcoming about details for its upcoming “baby” RR4 model, including approximate horsepower numbers.
The company has disclosed that the RR4 [...]
Despite the fact that Rolls Royce is still calling its 200EX (aka RR4) a concept, the vehicle that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month is, in reality, a thinly disguised future production model that could possibly revive the Silver Ghost nameplate from the early 1900s. According to the European rumormill, the brand [...]
In this economic climate, nobody is immune. But everything is relative. Rolls-Royce may continue to set sales records, but even they’re downsizing… sorta. Rolls’ answer to a shrinking economy is a smaller model, but at 212.6 inches long, it’s the 200EX is still bigger than most luxury sedans roaming the roads. And it still looks [...]