The first bespoke Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV celebrating Michael Fux's Fux orange was unveiled at The Quail in Monterey, California. Now, Rolls-Royce has unveiled the Black Badge family which defines the taste patterns of a younger generation. Currently, one-in-five Rolls-Royce bespoke commission is done as Black Badge with a darker image that defines the [...]
Poetry in motion See her gentle sway A wave out on the ocean Could never move that way I love every movement And there's nothing I would change She doesn't need improvement She's much too nice to rearrange Poetry in motion Dancing close to me A flower of devotion A swaying gracefully Johnny Tillotson couldn't [...]
Villa d'Este imagery If you could build any car in the World, design it any way you want a car designed, what would it look like if you created a car? It's what I thought about when the Rolls-Royce 08 was unveiled at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. It is the discussion I had with [...]
Good Morning Warren and Friends, A fitting end to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, I drove a Rolls-Royce Dawn from the Inn at Spanish Bay to San Francisco, CA. Somehow those traffic jams didn't seem to bother me as much. Could it have been the heated massaging seats? We spent the night in San Francisco [...]
Listen as I talk to John Batchelor Most companies are saying they expect autonomous vehicles to start showing up in dealerships by 2025, there is even a website dedicated to the goal of autonomous driving by 2025. In London, Rolls-Royce showed the VISION NEXT 100 the marque’s first-ever Pure Vision Vehicle. What is [...]
In a city that never sleeps Rolls-Royce has introduced a nighttime of fun, the Rolls-Royce Black badge series. Unveiled at the Canoe Studios in New York City, New York Rolls-Royce melds the iconic silhouettes of Wraith and Ghost and intensifies them into an all new aesthetic form. Rolls-Royce, Wraith, Black badge series, NYIAS, new [...]
Bespoke Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Head of Bespoke Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Richard Collar, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation, about the Ghost II, at the 2014 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS). Rolls-Royce introduced the Ghost II at the 2014 Geneva Auto Show. Collar was at the 2014 NYIAS to talk about the [...]
It's a one-of-a-kind rebuilt 1928 Rolls-Royce Thunderbolt shown at the 2013 Festivals of Speed in Orlando, FL. JP Vandebundt, owner of Victory Cars in Fort Lauderdale, FL talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation, about the Thunderbolt. Vandebundt is an artist that takes classic cars and brings them back to life as only [...]
Richard Carter, Director of Global Communications, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation about the 2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith. Rolls-Royce is a member of the BMW family so they have a lot of the same technology available in their cars that BMW has in it's cars. What is the Piece de [...]
Alex Innes is the bespoke designer for Rolls-Royce. Innes studied automotive design under the umbrella of industrial design and came to Rolls-Royce five years ago, right out of college. It's striking that such a young man is designing a car for such a mature cultured car owner. There are products and designs that you will [...]