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New Rolls-Royce RR4 Car getting 500+HP turbo V12 Pictures

Historically, Rolls-Royce has somewhat smugly declined to quote horsepower numbers, utilizing amusingly evasive language like “entirely sufficient” to describe its engines’ power outputs. Perhaps a sign of the times, Rolls is now being a bit more forthcoming about details for its upcoming “baby” RR4 model, including approximate horsepower numbers.
The company has disclosed that the RR4 will be powered by a new, 6.6-liter turbocharged V12 engine that gives “upwards of 500bhp.” Further, it will route that prodigious output through a ZF transmission with no less than eight forward ratios. Despite its ability to generate big power figures, Rolls says that one important drivetrain figure will be smaller than any other Rolls on the market: C02 output.
The news came from CEO Tom Purves himself at a New York press event for the 200EX, where the Geneva concept car is making its first stop on a world tour designed to get prospective clients in the car and booking orders for the production RR4 version.
The BMW-owned British automaker has long been famous for its peerless interiors and isolated ride, but Purves promises that the RR4 will bring with it a new emphasis on driving entertainment: “… we have consciously engineered this car to be more involving and dynamic for those owners around the world that will wish to drive it themselves.”That’s the perfect commuter car for me.Perfect commuter for me would be an chaffeured RV Office equipped with secretary and king size bed. So I can work or sleep on the way to the office.

[via:autoblog]

Rolls-Royce 200EX concept to be available in coupe Pictures

Despite the fact that Rolls Royce is still calling its 200EX (aka RR4) a concept, the vehicle that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month is, in reality, a thinly disguised future production model that could possibly revive the Silver Ghost nameplate from the early 1900s. According to the European rumormill, the brand may be considering expanding the new downsized range with coupe and droptop versions that would all be based on the same architecture that’s been borrowed from the latest BMW 7 Series.
We can’t speak to the voracity of these rumors, but the move does seem to make sense as it would follow the same pattern that RR took with its larger Phantom range. In any case, we’re expecting a production model based on the 200EX concept to bow later this year at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Looks better, the lights are better. But keep the grille HUGE. That’s the Rolls thing right there.