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The Driver’s Rolls

The British are famous for understatement, so much so you’d believe it if someone told you it was codified in common law. Rolls-Royce, the most British of automakers, treats understatement with the same reverence it treats the Spirit of Ecstasy that adorns its cars: the utmost. Six years ago, Rolls launched the Ghost Series II, insisting it was a “subtle” update. Now it presents a third-generation Ghost (no “series” appellation) described by a design movement Rolls-Royce itself fabricated: “post opulence.”

Design

Much as no Rolls-Royce is ever subtle, neither is it ever unopulent. But the new 2021 Ghost is better

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