Starting with the Bentley Mulsanne pictured above…. gorgeous design and those headlights are crazy! MSRP $285,000.
Then you have the Rolls-Royce Ghost… which also boats a luxurious design and the trademark suicide doors… MSRP $246,500
Which car would you blow the bank on???
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Tough choice but I’m a go with the ghost!
Ill be a Ghost anyday
mulsanne.
the choice is easy = the Mulsanne
ghost. the bentley’s headlights are ugly as dick
I wouldn’t kick either one of them out of bed, but i’m riding with the Rolls. it’s younger and sleeker.
Mulsanne: Filthy rich retired billionaire headed to the country club look
Ghost: Clean and stylish yet you still know its expensive as hell
Gotta go with the ghost!
Mulsanne
None! Money stays in the bank, get a Benz for 70-80 g’s
NEITHER!
used Honda Civic all the way!
I would blow the bank on the Rolls-Royce Ghost and Chauffeur salary….this is not a car you drive!
I own a Phantom. I wouldn’t buy this again. It has a lot of issues for a car this expensive. Drives better than just about any large or small vehicle on the road but the technology package is crap. An Acura TL has voice command and a gps system that tells you traffic conditions and re routes you to fastest possible path. Why can’t 2 $300,000 cars have these basic features? But if I traded mine in it would be for the younger cooler hipper Ghost. My friend Troy Carter (Gaga’s manager) just got one and now mine looks like the Grapa Car. The Mulsanne is really the sister to the Phantom. But I agree that the head lights are odd looking. Great car though. But Double R is the way to go.
LOL @ those lights being ugly as dick
Why buy a $250,000.00 car that looks like the Chrysler300-Series????
1. Tradition is the clue. There is no such a thing as vintage Coca Cola or premium Mac Donalds. The Ghost is really the most beautiful of all the BMW models. But it is that – a BMW! The Mulsanne is not a VW (Bentley brand owner). When the two german giants disputed the British brands it appeared that BMW had got the lion’s part with RR brand. Big mistake. Volkswagen kept two of the Rollers icons: Crewe and engineering. Since 1904 British RR had four sites, Manchester, London, Derby, and Crewe. The last one, under David Plastow, became very famous as the RR berth. BMW lost this tradition been sent to Goodwood. Almost all of the workforce of RR was kept by VW and if you touch and smell inside both cars you can feel it. Engineering is still worse. Despite the fact VW used its W 12 engine in some previous models, as the Continentals, it put back the wonderful 6,7 liters pushrod V8 RR with the Mulsanne. This is the one and only RR engine running in a brand new car today and there is nothing to pair with it. The Spirit of Ecstasy alone don’t make a car to become a RR. I would not put all this money in a expensive BMW.
2. The beauty is in the details. The Mulsanne design is being misunderstood. To the mere mortals, who never had (or will have) this kind of car the most important is appearance. BMW bets on that. If one asks to the real clientele for this kind of car, who are second, third or fourth generation buyers, who live at the borders of the Regent’s Park, Central Park, Trocadero, and also have a mansion at the Hamptons or a Swiss lake, the answer will be completely different. At this side we will see the Ghost as vulgar and burlesque. The Mulsanne beauty is not reachable with a photo. You must have the real thing to feel it, closely. It becomes more and more beautiful each day you live with, inch by inch. The other point is that the Mulsanne was styled to be a classic. A design that will last for a hundred years. Probably it will take part of this time to the common Joe to understand it. My advise to the ones who doesn’t like it is: Visit museums, listen to good concerts and taste expensive wines and you will learn to appreciate that.