Grudge match

The exquisitely detailed 1927 Rolls-Royce ‘Phantom of Love’ captured Best in Show at the Concours of Elegance, held at Hampton Court Palace from 5-7 September. Commissioned by Woolworth’s financial di

Rolls-Royce LOOK at the spec of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II and it’d be easy to think it was a relic of the past. Its V12 petrol engine is unassisted by anything as crude as hybrid modules, or

Even today, when prices for a good Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow have risen to a level vaguely commensurate with their stunning quality, these are still hugely undervalued cars – victims of their own succ

During the model’s production run from 1965 to 1980, almost 40,000 Silver Shadows left Rolls-Royce’s Crewe factory. This August, 170 of them, including related versions, gathered at Brooklands Museum

Whoever decided that drivers should have either practicality or performance clearly lacked vision. For much of its existence the estate car or stationwagon was just a practical workhorse. Aside from o

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’