2007 Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe Front View

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2007 Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe Front View

Ask
why the new Phantom Drophead Coupe uses a cloth rather than retractable
metal roof, as is the modern custom, and design director Ian Cameron
will give a typically Rolls-Royce answer. "There's something romantic
about raindrops falling on a fabric roof."

Ah, the r
word-romance. How often do you hear that in motoring these days? You
hear plenty of the other r word-rational. But romance? Never.


Yet
there's something intrinsically romantic about this big, graceful,
bluff-nosed, long-hooded, majestic statue of a car, more of a 1920s or
1930s luxury roadster than a machine from this century.