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 [...]
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, The kids are out of school, where is everyone planning to go for vacation? Are you driving your own car, renting a car, or borrowing a car from a friend when you get to your location? I'm doing a couple of articles on the food you take in the car [...]
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 york [...]
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 [...]
Bijan and Rolls-Royce Richard Carter, global director of communications for Rolls-Royce, talks to Warren Brown, Washington Post, and myself about Bijan, the designer creating bespoke rolls-Royce Phantoms for Bijan's clients, called driveable art.
The hands of Goodwood People who see a Rolls-Royce on the road stop and look. Traffic practically stopped when we were picked up at the airport in a Rolls-Royce. When someone wants to compare their product to the best they say, “it is the Rolls-Royce of…” Rolls-Royce has brought back an iconic name from the [...]
Rolls-Royce bespoke in Goodwood Mark Court is the only person that can paint the pinstripe on a Rolls-Royce. Court says the hardest part about painting the pinstripe was getting over the fact that the car is “6 meters long and costs over 250,000 Euros ($360,000).” Mr. Court makes the three-hour process sound easy, but his [...]
The Hands of Goodwood When I was in my teens my friend Ruthie would work all day in her basement creating art. Her hands were dry, her fingers cracked, her nails jagged. Ruthie's art was created by hand. A true artisan works with their hands. Ruthie is best-known for her wire crochet sculptures, but if [...]