Chapter one? flotage
The V 12 engine I came into contact with has only two personalities, one is the English flying crane, and the other is the wild and uninhibited Italian style. Phantom obviously belongs to the former. There are 6749mL engines, 12 cylinders, 2 turbines, 900n·m, 57 1 horsepower at the front of the long locomotive. The manufacturer claims that this engine is powerful enough to reach 100km/h in 5.3 seconds. At the same time, four 22-inch wheels are equipped with adjustable height and soft and hard air suspension, and the rear wheel active steering system is optional.
Stepping into the seat, I first found that the steering wheel is thinner and bigger than I thought, the grip ring is slender and the spokes are huge. Just from the design, I will give you a warning: turn around gently, turn around slowly, and honestly start this gem-like experience.
You only need to move your fingers and ankles to command the phantom under the guidance of the flying goddess. Try to push the throttle lightly, but the engine is still silent. Except for a few steady rising winds, everything else seems to be the same as the scene of idling in place.
Waftability (translated as "floating"), a new word, has become a term in the automobile industry. The inventor is an engineer of Rolls-Royce. They use this word to describe that the engine can make a large luxury car accelerate at a very low speed, creating a sense of "drifting" in the street. And your body, blocked by layers of calf leather, cashmere blanket and air suspension, has completely lost contact with the ground, more like a cruise ship wrapped in oil medium.
The word driving is too rough for the phantom, and Rolls-Royce's calibration of this car speaks for itself. The phantom with a net weight of 2.7 tons is not suitable for heavy braking before bending, and the brake foot feels soft in the front and middle. Excessive rudeness will break a good driving balance. Similarly, the purpose of V 12 is to make you gallop against the wind, not the floor oil after the green light. No one likes to see the pointer hit the Rolls Royce in the red line area, so its tachometer is replaced by the power reserve meter, telling you how much power is left at your disposal.
In 20 17, Rolls-Royce introduced a new generation of Phantom, which also adopted the latest architecture, which was the first time in Rolls-Royce's history to adopt an all-aluminum body architecture. The new structure makes the frame lighter, but at the same time the rigidity can be improved by 30%.
Of course, this reduced weight allows engineers to use more sound insulation materials to further enhance the quietness of the car. Compared with the old model, the new model adds 130kg of sound insulation materials, such as 6mm-thick double-coated sound insulation materials, so the quietness is also improved by 10% compared with the previous generation, making the inside and outside of the car completely two parallel worlds.
The gas field of this car is too strong to be copied, and the height of the front is higher than that of many medium-sized SUVs. Whether it's SKP's basement or Oriental Mandarin's parking area, you can see the Parthenon network of people, supported by the gas field of the flying goddess, and always get as much attention as Super Run, even if they have a BBA or Porsche car key in their bag.
Facing the door is a tradition of Rolls-Royce, and it is also a feature reserved from the carriage. The door hinges at the back and the door opens forward. In this way, passengers can step into the car normally without twisting or turning around when getting off. Just open the car door and walk forward and get off.
The opening angle of four huge doors is very large, and the stopper supports the doors to stop at any angle. Due to the split design, the gesture of closing the door manually will definitely embarrass the wealthy businessmen in the back row, and Rolls-Royce will naturally not let this happen. There is a motor to help open and close the door. Just press the buttons hidden on the dashboard (front row) and C-pillar.
Chapter two? Temporary palace
The second row is definitely the core of the whole car, and the seat position is slightly higher than the front row. This is definitely not for vision, but more like a quiet sense of class. The shape of the seat seems inconspicuous, but it does not pursue a sense of wrapping. It can be adjusted to a nearly flat sitting position like a German brand, but every detail, such as fine size, filler and material, has reached a height that others can't reach.
Sitting in such a flexible cabin, you can check the futures price/stock trend, the new real estate policy, or watch a The Wolf of Wall Street, and then time passes and mileage passes, and then get off the bus and arrive at your destination as if you just got on the bus.
The independent wine cabinet in the rear can store whisky, which is suitable for emptying or celebrating the arrival of new life/new plane/new island, and opening the palace for a while. The only regret is that the round hockey puck carved by the bartender is missing.
The umbrella cover of Rolls-Royce custom-made umbrella adopts special PTFE coating, which has strong water repellency. The umbrella handle is made of titanium alloy, and the umbrella rib in the middle is made of stainless carbon fiber. The inside of the skeleton is designed with three layers of metal and retractable springs, and the special pipeline for storing umbrellas can be heated and dried. Of course, its price is far less bizarre than100000/piece circulated on the Internet.
The starry roof of each Rolls-Royce is hand-sewn by more than 1800 optical fibers, which can make the distribution of stars in the "sky" in the car closer to the natural starry sky and place them at different depths and angles, thus realizing the brilliance of stars. Higher-level customized services can reproduce the effect of real constellations or meteors crossing the sky.
There are 65438+ ten thousand kinds of luxury goods in the eyes of 65438+ ten thousand people, but the combination of leather/wood/metal is the most meaningful and classic. White/black/orange colors are interspersed in different positions of the interior, or fall on the door panels, or are decorated with stitching, which seems to be an artistic and aesthetic display of the owners. As for the latest high-tech configuration and human-computer interaction system, Rolls-Royce did not attach importance to it, but left it to the German Department.
Chapter three? castle
The starting price is 7.9 million, which is more low-key to buy phantom or super-run?
It's hard to have an answer. People who know a little about cars can see at a glance that this is a Rolls Royce, solemn, dignified, domineering and even a little awe-inspiring, like a castle.
Wheelbase: 3552 mm
Body size: 5770×20 18× 1648mm.
The wheels strictly follow Rolls-Royce rules and reach half the height of the car body. Its posture is like this. Do not cater to the trend, do not need exaggerated lines. Tradition and scale alone can hold down the audience.
For the chief engineer/designer and craftsman of the British Rolls-Royce Goodwood factory, the phantom is a height, a measure to redefine the possibility of extreme luxury and industrial manufacturing. The waistline extending from the front of the car to the rear of the car was drawn by the painter Mark Court with a 3 mm wide brush specially made of squirrel and bull hair, which took 3 hours to complete.
Tire size: 255/45 R22 (front); 285/40 R22 (update)
The goddess of flight is one of the exterior features of Rolls-Royce, which can be controlled through the big screen. In terms of materials, in addition to the traditional gold, silver and black BADGE exclusive black, crystals, carbon fibers, rare alloys and resins also support optional installation.
Chapter four? final result
The starting price of seven figures is already several times that of 99% brand flagship models, and this price can even be upgraded to the higher-end yacht field. But for the Phantom series, it is only the starting point. Optional, customized and exclusive design can make you pay for it, and buyers also recognize this ever-changing possibility.
Is this world too cruel? No, the beginning of the industrial revolution, which originated in central Scotland, led to the elimination of handicrafts and the rise of large industries. If you regard the phantom as only a means of transportation, it represents the highest level of the planet; If we regard it as a historical node of human civilization, keep the tradition of manual scarcity, accept the qualitative change brought by industrial technology and connect the preceding with the following, then its value is not just a car, but a symbol or height.
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