A model stands beside the new Rolls Royce Ghost Extended Wheelbase during its launch in Tokyo on Friday. Rolls Royce Regional General Manager for Asia Pacific Paul Harris said Japan is the second biggest customer in Asia (after China) for the company. He said the new Ghost was a highly personalized, hand-built car that offers superior comfort and versatility. It is priced at 32 million yen.
© Japan TodayGhost car
©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
42 Comments
Login to comment
nath
I wonder how good the air filter is. Will it be able to catch all the radionuclide materials flying in the air? If I had the $$ to purchase such a car I would instead be spending it to migrate to the south of Japan or abroad.
T_rexmaxytime
I dig the girl and the car!!!
Laguna
As these are roughly the same price as a house, I suggest the government buy a hundred thousand of them and send them to the people of Tohoku, who have already grown used to living out of vehicles.
Really, those who buy these things in this world really do not qualify as human.
nandakandamanda
Hmmm... they do look kind of similar, but nothing like a Rolls. They've sold out to Hollywood glam.
Serrano
That model almost looks like she's on stilts.
kevinintokyo
The Rolls has never been very sexy, but when you can afford such kind of ride with a full time driver taking you to appointments it is sexy. Or you could be a up coming RAP star in the US and drive it yourself :(. It is only a car.
Serrano
"I like the girl"
I still think she looks scary.
Who in Japan would pay 32,000,000 yen for a car when thousands of tsunami victims still don't have a home?
gyouza
It's German!
WilliB
gyouza:
You are right, I misread your post. Of course, I agree with you. I´d prefer the comfort of the rolls to the chick appeal of those race cars any time.
bentheredonthat
sorry but brits don't know how to make cars :))
YongYang
@Domi: Well, pray do enlightens us, what, other that what it reads,
means.
gyouza
WilliB - Maybe you misread my post? I said it is BETTER than those two others.
oberst
we have the missing link !! small cranial capacity and big ears , stand upright too !! Nice car though...............
cleo
Ha ha, Cleo, so you think someone must be pretty dumb to pay 32,000,000 yen for it? Me too!
Didn't say that, Serrano. If they've got that much in the petty cash, and they like it, then why not? But if I had that kind of money I can think of lots of other things I'd rather spend it on.
But then, that much money gone up the spout, probably horrendous mileage and upkeep.....yeah, you're right, pretty dumb. Or awash in so much money they've lost grip on reality, which amounts to much the same thing.
Jkanda
Have you guys seen the "Ultimate Silver Metal" color on GT-R 35 Premium edition only? I think that nothing can beat that color. That is one gorgeous color. I had the honor to drive one recently and I am in love with it. It is about 300Man. For now I will dream about it. No thank you for Rolls Royce. The face looks almost like a truck.
Darrin Flores
@HonestDictator... Mitsubishi built the Mirage.. i doubt very much that a company like RR would want to copy a name like that considering you could buy about 30 Mirages for the price of 1 RR
BlueWitch
@cleo
You're dead right about that, my friend.. That car reminds me of my grandpa.. lol
Sorry guys, but I'll keep my RX-8. (^_^)
TakahiroDomingo
WilliB
gyouza:
I don´t get that idea. "Comfort" in those low-set racing contraptions? How? I would have thought "comfort" would be the only argument to buy a rolls, if you really want to spend that money on a contraption.
WilliB
I like the girl. Screw the car. 32 million for a heap of metal? Ridiculous.
YongYang
It is an awful exuberance, nothing refined or stylish about the lines at all. No, RR. No.
@TakahiroDomingo: ''Toy' for you'? Seriously, can a more disturbing interpretation of how one values another HUMAN be found on JT?
southsakai
Ahh.. it's only a little pocket change for me :) see me in this tomorrow with my personal chauffeur. Thou shalt not envy but be rather impressed.
Serrano
"That is an ugly car"
Ha ha, Cleo, so you think someone must be pretty dumb to pay 32,000,000 yen for it? Me too!
The car is ugly and the model looks scary!
Wait a minute - only 32,000,000 yen? Maybe Yoshio Hachiro can buy the Ghost and drive it around what he called the "ghost town" near Fukushima Daiichi.
gyouza
BMW 7 series in drag (and on steroids)!
If you have the money it is better than a Lambo or Ferrari for Tokyo - at least you will be in comfort and relative silence whilst sitting at the red lights and in the traffic jams!
paulinusa
Sorry to say I don't find either model attractive.
shinhiyata
While Rolls are still made at Goodwood, and Bentley are still made at Crewe, the formerly majestic British car industry has gone the way of the empire. Rolls is now entirely owned by BMW and Bentley by VW. Even TVR is owned by a Russian these days and Aston Martin by Kuwaitis. Of all the historic and mighty English cars still being made, only the eccentric Morgan and my favorite - Bristol - remain as true hand-made blue-blood heralds of this once proud tradition.
TakahiroDomingo
i don't care much about the car, toy for the super-rich. but i love that great sexy looking chick (toy for me)
cleo
That is an ugly car.
The_Pope
Nice car, but couldn't they get a model who hadn't just come from chemotherapy....
papasmurfinjapan
Looks like a pair of silver chopsticks. To each their own I guess..
YuriOtani
Thought the Germans bought it? I would like to have a Toyota Century, royal edition :)
smithinjapan
Nothing special, though if others like it good for them. Nice legs on the model.
papasmurfinjapan
I'd prefer a Bentley Mulsanne.
cactusJack
I don't like the small headlights. If I am gonna get a big classy car, I want some big headlights to flash at people and say "Get off my road!"
the_sicilian
Looks like a Chrysler 300.
HonestDictator
Sorry but "Ghost" is not the name that comes to mind when I think RR xD. Mirage or Illusion would be a more refined name. xD
borscht
I like the shape, size, and color. The car? Meh.
some14some
Looks like an old faded color print film(?) i simply envy 'southsakai.'
Carcharodon
saving up for a new lambo aventador myself. You can keep the Roller.
southsakai
Great looking RR. Love the silver color. 32 million yen only eh, I'm buying me self one today.