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Last Auto account – Rolls-Royce 200EX Spirit of allegorical British affluence car maker lives on in son of Phantom…
Feast your eyes on Rolls-Royce’s new baby! These are the aboriginal official pictures of a smaller, added bunched adaptation of the Phantom that’s set to go on auction in 2010, gunning for top-end versions of Mercedes’ S-Class and the Bentley Continental Flying Spur.

Making its apple admission at the Geneva Motor Show next week, the long-anticipated â??baby’ Rolls Royce will be appear in the anatomy of this agilely bearded abstraction car, which carries the codename 200EX.

The EX tag has been acclimated throughout Rolls-Royce’s history to denote about showroom-ready â??experimental’ models – the Phantom agitated the 100EX brand if it was appear in Geneva in 2004, for archetype – and this newcomer continues that trend.

Being the fourth Rolls Royce to be apparent aback the close was taken over by BMW in 2003, it’s internally referred to as RR4 -but it could disclose the acclaimed Argent Ghost name if it arrives in two years’ time.

As you can see, the 200EX takes abundant of its beheld afflatus from the Phantom with overhangs that are abbreviate at the foreground and continued at the rear.

The Rolls Royce grille takes pride of place, address the Spirit of Ecstasy and belted by ellipsoidal headlights, while data such as rear-hinged â??coach-style’ doors and a cone-shaped appendage are replicated too.
However, attending afterpiece and you’ll see that the grille is hardly different. â??We capital this to be beneath evocative of the acceptable â??Parthenon’ appearance and added like a jet intake,â? says arch designer, Ian Cameron, so the abandon are arced inwards and the vanes set aback into the opening.

The attenuated headlights are LED units too while the annular lower spotlights, as apparent on the Phantom, are blanked off. The A-pillar is aswell added acutely raked, there are beyond ceaseless surfaces and the roof is lower, all creating a simpler shape. The 200EX is corrective in Darkest Tungsten, allegory with the argent glassy accomplishment activated to the beanie and A-pillars. Vast 20-inch seven-spoke auto complete the look.

Sitting on a heavily adapted belvedere aggregate with BMW’s latest 7-Series, the 200EX may be abate than the Phantom, but it’s not what you’d alarm compact. At 5.4m, it’s best than the BMW 750iL by about 19cm and is just 44cm beneath than the Phantom itself. With a wheelbase of about 3.3m – adjoin 3.2m for a BMW 750iL – there should be abounding legroom in the rear for passengers.

Under the beanie lies a new engine that’s different to the 200EX. Developed from the Phantom’s BMW-sourced V12 engine, the assemblage measures 6.0-litres rather than 6.75-litres and is accepted to aftermath about 450bhp and 600Nm of torque – compared to the Phantom’s 460bhp and 720Nm.
Even belief over two tonnes, that should be abundant bite for a 0-60mph time of about six abnormal and a top acceleration of 150mph.

Inside, the 200EX is advised to be abreast yet comfortable with the finest covering and copse veneers acclimated throughout. The dashboard has been simplified for an aerial attending and a new addition is the â??roller-ball control’ on the centre console, which is agnate to BMW’s iDrive and allows the disciplinarian to admission abounding of the car’s systems through a mouse-like alternating ball.

â??The 200EX is a avant-garde beheading of around-the-clock Rolls-Royce elegance, breaking with some areas of attitude but application the amount ethics that accomplish our marque unique,â? explained Rolls-Royce CEO Tom Purves. â??We apprehend the added informal, active architecture to augment the address of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, alluring humans who acknowledge its admixture of refinement, new technology and abreast style.â? No prices accept been appear as yet but apprehend the 200EX to alpha at about £180,000.

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