# Rolls-Royce Unveils Its Grandest Car Yet, the Phantom VIII **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331 "2017-07-28T14:30:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kurtwm1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kurtwm1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kurtwm1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/1 "2017-07-28T14:30:18Z")
Still looks like my 300C, but half a million $$$$ more. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/rolls-royce-phantom-viii-specs-design-speed](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/rolls-royce-phantom-viii-specs-design-speed) ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/2 "2017-07-28T15:57:28Z")
Damn, that’s a beautiful car…I’m actually surprised it’s only half a million dollars ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/3 "2017-07-28T18:01:02Z")
To me it’s ugly; but then again I’m no fan of Slab Sides styling. The same reason I don’t care for Chrysler 300s and a certain era of Buick and Cadillac. Just personal opinion is all although I admit a cross-country drive in one of those would be fantastic as far as ride and comfort. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/4 "2017-07-28T18:31:26Z")
Ah the curse of getting old, British Luxury Cars hit rheir styling peak in the 50s and 60s. Just my opinion, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/5 "2017-07-28T18:57:03Z")
I think the car is gorgeous. But it’s something I’d never buy even if I had the funds. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/6 "2017-07-28T18:57:37Z")
I’ve got to agree, the styling is old and boring. Looks like a 1960’s Lincoln. Don’t they have to replace the sheet metal dies at some point? ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/7 "2017-07-28T22:06:20Z")
My preferred type of styling. My personal physician recently bought one of these. It could explain why office visit costs are sky high… > **[These are all the coolest features on the Ferrari 488 GTB](https://www.businessinsider.com/ferrari-488-gtb-features-2017-2)** > > Ferrari kindly let us borrow a $360,000 488 GTB for a few days. We adored the car. Here are its best features. ---
**Author:** ![kurtwm1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kurtwm1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kurtwm1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/8 "2017-07-28T22:12:12Z")
> [@bravesfan314](#): > > it’s only half a million dollars yeah… a real steal ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/9 "2017-07-28T22:53:24Z")
> [@kurtwm2010](#): > > yeah… a real steal Compared to some of the custom jobs and other ridiculously high end luxury cars out there? I wouldn’t have been surprised if the price tag was \>750k ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/10 "2017-07-28T23:07:32Z")
It’s fun to look at, for the same reason I enjoy watching those PBS tv programs about antiques people bring in from their homes to be valued. The expert will say “Your slightly cracked vase would bring $1500 at auction!” The owner is gob smacked, he’s so happy. This is very pleasing to me too, I’m very happy to let the owner keep his vase, and I’ll keep the $1500 … lol … ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/11 "2017-07-28T23:16:43Z")
> [@GeorgeSanJose](#): > > “Your slightly cracked vase would bring $1500 at auction!” The owner is gob smacked, he’s so happy. And they conveniently make sure that they don’t show how much it **actually** sells for, which is usually way under what they say it will bring 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/12 "2017-07-29T04:39:42Z")
People don’t buy RR Phantoms to look at. Or to impress others. Or to drive. They buy them to be chauffeured around town in comfort and luxury. And for trips too short to take the helicopter. People who like to drive themselves buy Bentleys. I’d love a Bentley. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/13 "2017-07-29T23:23:35Z")
An older Bentley, like from the 1980s, probably isn’t overly expensive as a used car. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/14 "2017-07-30T00:51:45Z")
> [@GeorgeSanJose](#): > > An older Bentley, like from the 1980s, probably isn’t overly expensive as a used car. Right up until it needs maintenance or repair. Naw, for a guy on a budget like mine to buy a used Bentley would be foolhearty. I cannot be a fool for a car. Only for a woman. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/15 "2017-07-30T05:06:33Z")
About 20 years ago a young man here bought a Bentley with a bad engine on the cheap. It was a very clean car. He dropped a Ford V-8 and AOD transmission into it and started running a chauffeur service with it; ferrying young people to proms, couples out for an evening on the town and so on. He was actually quite successful with it and operated that Bentley for about 10 years before retiring it and moving on to something else. As for women, Lord. That’s a whole new ballgame for me. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/16 "2017-07-30T05:45:14Z")
Wasn’t it somewhat common at one point, to replace Jaguar engines with more reliable and cheaper Chevy small blocks . . . ? ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/17 "2017-07-30T06:16:29Z")
There is a Bentley/ Rolls dealer 2 miles from my place of employment, I see these cars several times a month during road tests, I try to identify the driver but I wouldn’t recognize a ball player. The Phantom stands out as a noble machine, a sedan the size of a pick-up truck. There is little resemblance between the Chrysler 300 and the Phantom, I have installed dozens of custom grills in 300’s, that doesn’t make it a Rolls or Bentley. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/18 "2017-07-31T03:33:56Z")
@db4690, there is a company in Dallas, TX that specializes in Jaguar conversions They use Chevrolet engines and transmissions and do a professional job of it. John’s Cars I think is the name. A friend of mine who passed a few years ago had 2 XKEs out in his barn that he had converted. One was fitted with a Chevy 350 and the other with a Ford 6 cylinder. Personally, I would have to draw the line at modding (or butchering…) an XKE. The XJ series fine; but not the XKEs. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/19 "2017-07-31T03:47:06Z")
> [@ok4450](#): > > there is a company in Dallas, TX that specializes in Jaguar conversions They use Chevrolet engines and transmissions and do a professional job of it. John’s Cars I think is the name. Those would now be considered classic car conversions, late model Jaguars are not modified in great numbers. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331/20 "2017-07-31T04:24:57Z")
A colleague of mine . . . who is literally a generation older than me . . . is somewhat familiar with such converter Jaguars. He spent years working in independent shops, servicing all sorts of different brands. He said the converter Jaguars were FAR more reliable than the bone stock ones. I have no reason to doubt him [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/rolls-royce-unveils-its-grandest-car-yet-the-phantom-viii/106331.md?page=2)