WORLD`S # 8 MOST EXPENSIVE CAR

The luxury saloon automobile is a subsidiary of the BMW and is manufactured by the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. The car was unveiled in 2003 and what the world got to see was a wonderful car built on an aluminum spaceframe.

The Rolls Royce Phantom Coupe has a 48-valve, 6.8 L, V12 engine that is engaged in the production of 453 hp of torque. The Phantom car can be accelerated to 60 mph in 5.7 s. The engine has been derived from the existing V12 powerplant of BMW. The car has a six-speed automatic transmission as well as a double wishbone suspension.

Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe and its features

These cars have sidemarkers on all the vehicles; in the rear parts of the cars you have the red sidemarker in the US, and this has been done for complying with federal car lighting laws. The Phantom car looks quite like the cheaper S-Class Sedan and also shares quite a number of its components with it.

The body of the car is built in a BMW plant in Dingolfing, Germany and the V12 engine is built in Munich. You can go to the plant at Goodwood, West Sussex in England for getting the leather and woodwork done according to your personal specifications. The Goodwood plant has merely two robots for painting the spaceframe body. Though machines are a wonderful replacement for people, but still physical labor can get the best in terms of finest quality work and detailing.

The car made of over 200 extruded aluminum profiles as well as 300 sheet parts beautifully manages low weight with extreme strength. The making of the car is such that it provides a powerful performance without the disturbance or apparent effort to the passengers and the driver.

This car is a hand-built one accompanied with the quality assurance and intelligent assistance of the latest technology and this makes the eighth car of the top ten most expensive cars in the world a special motor car.

The engine is extremely fuel efficient owing to the fact that it is accompanied with the latest technology that includes direct injection, variable valve lift, and variable valve timing; the variable valve lift gets rid of the need for throttle batteries as well as the efficiency losses that accompany them.

Each individual car gets its own special character when the wood grain is book matched on each panel. Here, the right as well as the left grain structures is symmetrical to each other. Once finished, you will find that the wood effect is very much appealing to eyes. Apart from the woodwork, this car among the top ten most expensive cars of the world makes use of 450 pieces of leather that are cut with the aid of a computer-guided knife. The pieces are sewn together by a very efficient and skilled team.