Rolls Royce Ghost Video Released

Rolls Royce's latest model, the Ghost, will be officially unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show next month. But before the first public appearance, the British manufacturer wanted to teas us once again and rolled out a video showing the car interacting with the real world. Dan Balmer, Rolls Royce Ghost product manager, took the car out for a ride and presented some of its most important features.

As we told you before, power will come from a 6.6-liter turbocharged V12 engine that releases a maximum power of 570 hp and 575 lb-ft of torque at 1,500 rpm. Paired with an 8-speed automatic transmission, the Ghost achieves some impressive figures to say the least: 0-60 in 4.7 seconds and tops at 155 mph (250 km/h).

The car will be revealed, as we said, at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September, with sales projected to commence in late 2009, with the exception of the US and the Asia-Pacific region, where deliveries will begin in the second quarter of 2010. The Ghost doesn't come cheap, quite explainable since we're dealing with a Rolls: for the UK, the Ghost is priced at £165,000, while Europeans will purchase the Ghost for 213,000 euro. In North America, the Ghost will have a starting price of $245,000, while the rest of the world will have to pay an extra $5,000: $250,000.

"Ghost is about fingertip control while still enjoying a dynamic connection with the road. Equally passengers need to be cosseted from the physical sensations of acceleration, braking and cornering. Our chassis set up keeps Ghost stable and flat, preventing it from wallowing or pitching in the corners or imposing undesirable forces on those inside,” Helmut Riedl, Rolls Royce director of Engineering said in a release in mid July.