Most luxury car manufactures want to get a chunk of the emerging market in China, and Rolls-Royce has just unveiled their Phantom Series II Extended Wheelbase during the motor show in Beijing.
During last year’s auto show in Shanghai, Rolls-Royce also unwrapped a variant of their Ghost Extended Wheelbase. The consecutive years of global introduction of the long wheelbase offering of luxury carmaker says a lot where their eyes locked on.
The new Phantom Extended Wheelbase was introduced to the Chinese market as the new standard of luxury of the brand as no product comes close to the Phantom’s effortless opulence, grand showing, and exquisite beauty.
Like the other members of its brood, the Phantom Extended Wheelbase features improved drive train, technology, and design. The new Series II Phantom gets an updated powerplant in the form of a V-12 which now gets a direct fuel injection and linked to an 8-speed automatic transmission. The new setup gives the vehicle a 10% improvement in fuel consumption.
The exterior of the new member of the Rolls-Royce fleet gets a restyled bumper and new LED headlamps. The shape and intensity of the headlights are adjusted automatically by the system depending on the driving conditions and the road.
Inside the car, the driver certainly will benefit from an improved infotainment system that now comes with an 8.8 inch screen. There are also several cameras around the car which give the driver a good view of the surroundings especially during parking in tight spaces. The navigation system has also been improved to provide 3D display to aid in understanding the landscape and planning of the route.
The other details inside the Series II Phantom is just the best of anything you can see from the wood veneers and leather.
More than 80% of buyers of the Phantom last year opted for custom options like the Starlight Headliner that embeds optic lights into the headliner to mimic a starry sky.
