{"id":75801,"date":"2024-08-17T00:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75801"},"modified":"2024-08-17T00:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:03:36","slug":"over-the-top-is-an-understatement-for-the-rolls-royce-phantom-scintilla-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75801","title":{"rendered":"Over the top is an understatement for the Rolls-Royce Phantom Scintilla collection – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spirit of Ecstasy,<\/a> the statuette that adorns the hood of Roll-Royce Motor Cars, is the inspiration for a collection of 10 cars called the Phantom Scintilla.<\/a><\/p>\n

The collection \u2014 no prices are mentioned in the company\u2019s description \u2014 is designed to \u201ccelebrates the ethereal beauty, grace and legacy\u201d of the Spirit of Ecstasy, with interiors \u201cinspired by the apparent movement of her robes, as the motor car glides by.\u201d Wow.<\/p>\n

One dressed-up example, the ultra luxury Phantom sedan<\/a>, is on display at the current Monterey<\/a> Car Week extravaganza. But don\u2019t get your hopes up: All 10 units are already sold, with only three coming to the U.S.<\/p>\n

The roof is coated in Andalusian White with Thracian Blue covering everything from the window line down. The Spirit of Ecstasy ornament \u2014 inspired by the ancient Greek statue, the Winged Victory of Samothrace \u2014 is rendered in ceramic white.<\/p>\n

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Slip inside to find seats adorned will cloth upholstery that features a flowing graphic design, but it’s not simply screen printed. Instead, Rolls-Royce<\/a> says that the pattern is made up of 869,500 stitches of embroidery in the seats and doors. The headliner features Rolls-Royce’s signature Starlight illumination motif with 1,500 tiny fiber-optic lights arranged in a wavy pattern.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also what RR calls its Celestial Pulse Gallery artwork, a centerpiece formed of seven individually milled aluminum ribbons in the same ceramic finish as the statuette.<\/p>\n

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Would a Phantom<\/a> Scintilla customer be concerned with something as mundane as a horsepower figure for this million-dollar-plus vehicle? Glad you asked: The Phantom features a 563-hp twin-turbo V-12 paired with an eight-speed automatic and rear-wheel drive. And there\u2019s a pothole-spotting camera that helps the suspension adapt to road imperfections. You won\u2019t find that in a Miata.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unveiling of a Private Collection is always a landmark moment,\u201d said Rolls CEO Chris Brownbridge in a press statement. \u201cThese rare and collectible motor cars, limited to just a handful of examples worldwide, are true masterpieces. They illustrate the boundless ingenuity and skill of the creatives and craftspeople at the Home of Rolls-Royce, and stimulate ideas among our clients for their own commissions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Spirit of Ecstasy, the statuette that adorns the hood of Roll-Royce Motor Cars, is the inspiration for a collection of 10 cars called the Phantom Scintilla. The collection \u2014 no prices are mentioned in the company\u2019s description \u2014 is designed to \u201ccelebrates the ethereal beauty, grace and legacy\u201d of the Spirit of Ecstasy, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}