Wraith Spy Shots: Rolls-Royce Preparing Ghost-Based Coupe Model: Wraith


The Rolls-Royce Wraith is a full-size ultra-luxury car/grand tourer manufactured by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and based on the chassis of the Rolls-Royce Ghost sedan which is also shared with the Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible. The Wraith shares its nameplate with the 1938 model by the original Rolls-Royce company. The body style is a two-door pillar-less coupe with suicide doors, where all side windows can roll down like in a convertible. This body style was popular in American cars during the 1950s and 1960s, and was known as the hardtop body style, not used by Rolls-Royce since 1955.

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The expansion of the Rolls Royce range with the lower-priced and smaller-sized Ghost sedan in 2010 was only the beginning for the Goodwood-based luxury carmaker.
In about a year's time, possibly at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show, Rolls Royce will present the first offshoot of the Ghost family in the form a new coupe model, rumored to revive the Corniche nameplate.
Carscoop's photographers caught a heavily disguised prototype of the Ghost coupe model running on the streets of Munich, Germany.
The Bavarian group's technicians tried to fool us that the car had regular front doors and smaller, suicide-style rear doors, but look closely at the spy pictures and it becomes clear that they are fake and that the car will be equipped with two suicide front doors, just like the larger Phantom Coupe.
Likewise, the rear quarters of the car have been covered up in a way that hides the true styling of the Ghost Coupe.
The new model will use the same running gear as the Ghost, itself based on modified platform shared with BMW’s latest 7-Series, with power coming from a 6.6-liter twin turbo V12 engine, which produces 563hp (571PS) and 780 Nm (575.4 lb-ft) of torque in the regular and LWB Ghost sedans.

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The windshield has more rake and the roofline has a more continuous slope than the Phantom Coupe. Can we expect a concept at Paris this year?
 
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The Nürburgring track is one of the last places you would expect to see a Rolls Royce, but if the rumors turn out to be true, the new Ghost-based Coupe may feel at home even here.

You see, the new two-door model, the name of which remains a mystery for now, is said to be the sportiest, fastest and best handling model ever to wear the "Spirit of Ecstasy" ornament on its hood.

While utilizing the platform and mechanical hardware of the Ghost sedan, itself related to the BMW 7-Series, the new Coupe will benefit from a shorter chassis with several upgrades including sportier suspension, brake and steering systems as well as a tuned version of the saloon's 6.6-liter twin turbo V12 engine believed to produce 600-horses or more.

The shortening of the platform together with a series of other measures should also reduce the Coupe's weight over its saloon counterpart that tips the scales at a hefty 2,360 kg / 5,203 lbs.

The styling of the Coupe is not yet clear from these photos due to the extensive use of swirly wraps, but it is evident that the car sports a low and sleekly shaped roofline, most likely front suicide-style doors (two of the three door handles on the prototype are surely fake…), and a similar face to the Ghost sedan.

The new Rolls Royce model should debut next year, possibly as early as the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, either in pre- or final-production form.

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I hope you are right and I am wrong, but I seriously doubt blunt noses and fast backs mix well - look at A5 sportback, A7.
 

Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a British luxury automobile maker and a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMW AG since 2003 - as the exclusive manufacturer of Rolls-Royce-branded motor cars. The company is headquartered in Goodwood, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. BMW AG has no direct relationship with Rolls-Royce-branded vehicles produced before 2003, other than having briefly supplied components and engines. From 1906 to 2003, cars were manufactured and marketed under the Rolls-Royce brand by Rolls-Royce Motors. The Bentley Motors Limited subsidiary of Volkswagen AG is its direct successor.
Official website: Rolls-Royce

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