The New Rolls-Royce Ghost Is Coming, and It's Getting All-Wheel Drive
The Rolls-Royce Ghost has gone largely unchanged for the past decade, and the company is finally getting around to designing a new one. Unlike the first Ghost, which uses a 12-year-old BMW 7-Series as a base, this new model will use Rolls' own in-house designed aluminum frame. It's also dropping its rear-drive-only layout for all-wheel drive.
Why add all-wheel drive to the Ghost? Rolls says it was mainly due to customer demand.
“Ghost clients told us that it’s the car in their collection that they’re drawn to the most," Ghost Engineering Lead Jonathan Simms said in a statement. "They love its uncomplicated versatility. It’s not trying to be a sports car, it’s not trying to be a grand statement—it’s simply exceptional and exceptionally simple... We pushed our architecture even further and created a car even more dynamic, even more luxurious and, most of all, even more effortlessly useable.”
Rolls-Royce today revealed a host of technical details on the new Ghost leading up to its reveal later this fall. According to the luxury carmaker, it took three full years to develop the car's suspension system, which consists of three parts: an upper wishbone damper units mounted above the front suspension assembly to aid stability, a "flagbearer" system that uses cameras to read road conditions ahead and adjust the suspension accordingly, and the automaker's well-known satellite-aided transmission, which uses GPS terrain data to pre-select gears for upcoming hills and corners. There's also all-wheel steering, a must-have for such a large car, improving stability at high speeds and maneuverability in tight spaces.
We can't wait to see this thing fully unveiled.
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