In the mid-1930s, Rolls-Royce produced ... the first ever Phantom to feature a V12 engine, and the only V12 right up until RR's BMW era. The chassis for the very last Phantom III was produced ...

Hope for the Phantom was not lost, though. By 1950, the Royal Household was looking to replace its Daimlers with a new luxury limousine. Rolls-Royce was asked to fulfil this order and created a ...

1933’s Phantom III was a landmark ... A royal intervention in 1950 revived the Phantom when Rolls-Royce was commissioned to create a limousine for King George VI’s household.

Over the decades, Rolls looked at partnerships on cars with Austin and straight buyouts of the company as a whole. The last time that happened, which was in the late 1990s, Germany’s BMW took over the ...

Its design was similarly inspired by the 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedance de Ville driven in the movie by Oddjob, Auric Goldfinger’s chauffeur. Throughout the movie, Goldfinger is ...

Beyond the Cullinan SUV, Rolls-Royce's flagship car is the limo-like Phantom sedan. Below it in both size and price is the Ghost sedan. The four-seat Spectre coupe, Rolls-Royce’s first all ...