The point, sir, is that this is not just a car. This is a Rolls-Royce Phantom. So it’s going out of production in the same way that Peploe, Capability Brown and Sir Christopher Wren went out of production.
There will be a new Phantom, two years hence. But the original endures; its magnificence grows with age. This will forever be Rolls-Royce’s renaissance work, the car with which the best returned to its best.
A dozen and more years on, driving a Phantom is like returning to that Capability Brown masterpiece you recall with fondness. You may have visited hundreds of modern gardens in between, but the elegance of a classic original is unmistakable…
The Phantom’s gently masterful ride has never been matched. Still. Its seating position is imperious, achieved without any of the vulgar bluffness of an SUV. Comfort is without end, as are the nods to Rolls’ heritage. History is not bunk.
