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The Rolls-Royce Ghost is a full-sized luxury car manufactured by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. The "Ghost" nameplate, named in honour of the Silver Ghost, a car first produced in 1906, was announced in April 2009 at the Auto Shanghai show. The production model was officially unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. The Ghost Extended Wheelbase was ...
On the choice of make, series co-creator Gerry Anderson said: "Considering [Penelope's] personality, and the role she played in International Rescue, it could only be a Rolls-Royce." [8] AP Films (APF) approached Rolls-Royce Limited, which consented to the use of its brand. In 2004, Rolls-Royce's head of public relations in the 1960s said that ...
The fit and finish was comparable to a Rolls-Royce car, and they were the most expensive road-going motorcycles in the world. Brough Superior motorcycles have always been rare and expensive. Prices for these motorcycles ranged from £ 100 to £185 in the 1920s and 1930s.
The car was very expensive, costing about the same as a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and in the early 1920s sales were slow. The last car was sold in 1924. The last car was sold in 1924. The Lion was by now becoming a best-seller for the company, which eventually dropped all the other aero-engines.
The Rolls-Royce Dawn was built in order to replace the earlier 2-door open top car model, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé.. The Dawn was built on the platform of the Rolls-Royce Ghost, unlike the earlier model which was based on the 7th Generation Rolls-Royce Phantom, the flagship car model of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars until the arrival of the 8th Generation and the Rolls-Royce Phantom ...
The Rolls-Royce Architecture of Luxury (A.O.L) platform is a car platform developed by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It is a modular platform that utilises an aluminium spaceframe chassis. It is available with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive setups and debuted in the Phantom VIII in 2017.
The Meteor that appeared during the same episode has the chassis from a 1930s Rolls-Royce Phantom and a World War II-vintage, 27-liter (1,648 cu in) Rolls-Royce Meteor engine. The engine produces 850 bhp (630 kW), which allows the car to achieve a top speed of 160 mph (260 km/h) and a fuel efficiency of roughly 2 mpg ‑imp (1.4 L/km). In 2013 ...
The SR.N4 was powered by four Rolls-Royce Proteus turboprop engines. [6] [24] The Proteus engines each drove a set of 19 ft (5.8 m) diameter steerable Dowty Rotol propellers, arranged in two pairs on pylons positioned on top of the craft's roof; upon the SR.N4's introduction to service, these were the largest propellers in the world. [22]