Purple 1914 Rolls Royce Ghost First Owned By Tsar Nicholas II Going for €5.5 / $7 Million

The gruesome assassination of Tsar Nicholas II, who was shot in the cellar of an old house, along with his family, doctor and cook, was preceded the year before by the delivery of a new luxurious car, which had been commissioned from the UK – a classic 1914-built Rolls Royce Ghost. Now that car is reportedly up for sale in Germany.

The sale ad does not specify how long he had it for, or if he ever had the chance to to drive it, considering the fact that 1917 was a pretty busy year, as the Tsar was forced to abdicate by the Bolsheviks.

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Rolls-Royce Hopes Wraith Coupe will Boost Russia Sales

Rolls-Royce sells around 100 cars per year in Russia, according to a recent report published by Bloomberg. It also states that the Anglo-German carmaker is not standing still, and is planning to increase that figure with the introduction of the sporty Wraith coupe, just as the country is planning to impose higher taxes on vehicles costing more than the equivalent of $154,700. Read more »

China Threatens the EU with Higher Import Duties on Luxury Cars

Starting a trade war with the world’s largest car market is not a very wise decision for any country that has a strong auto industry, much less for the European Union, which is home to some of the most important carmakers in the world.

However, this is really on the verge of happening, as the EU has imposed duties on Chinese solar panels, infuriating the government of the world’s most populous country, which retaliated by launching an anti-dumping investigation into imported European wine.

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Rolls-Royce Wraith Product Manager Explains the Brand's Most Powerful Model Ever in New Video

Based on the Rolls-Royce Ghost sedan, the Wraith is the company’s most powerful model ever, with its 6.6-liter turbo V12 powerplant delivering 624 horsepower. This also makes it the fastest production Rolls-Royce in the company's history, as it sprints from standstill to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.2 seconds and reaches an electronically-limited top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph). Read more »

Rolls-Royce CEO Confirms Convertible Wraith, Dismisses SUV Rumors

Rolls-Royce will make a convertible version of the Wraith coupe, CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos acknowledged during the UK launch of the Wraith. “The design certainly lends itself to a drophead coupe, and I think that will be the next variant,” Muller-Otvos told Auto Express magazine. However, don’t expect to see the convertible Wraith on the roads very soon, as producing another variant could take at least two years, according to RR’s boss. Read more »

London's Harrods Store Welcomes New Rolls-Royce Wraith Coupe

Joining the likes of many new models in the United Kingdom ranging from the Hyundai ix35 to a number of Aston Martins, Rolls-Royce's most recent creation, the Wraith coupe is getting some show time behind a display window at luxury department store Harrods in Knightsbridge, London. Read more »

Scoop: Rolls-Royce Ghost Getting Ready for its First Facelift

After updating the Phantom range last year and adding a new and comparatively sportier coupe, the Wraith, just last month, Rolls-Royce engineers and designers have turned their attention to the brand's third and most affordable model, the Ghost, which is offered in regular and long-wheelbase flavors.

If you know Rolls-Royce, then you shouldn't be surprised to learn that the first facelift for the Ghost won't bring any earthshaking updates.

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New Rolls-Royce Ghost Alpine Trial Centenary Collection Looks Back 100 Years for Inspiration

Premium automakers are well aware of the fact that affluent Chinese customers have a thing for special edition models, which is why you'll be seeing plenty of them at the Auto China 2013 in Shanghai.

Rolls-Royce, of course, is no stranger to limited edition versions, but with the new Ghost Alpine Trial Centenary Collection, it's the first time in the company's history that a bespoke model has taken inspiration from a heritage Rolls-Royce.

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Rolls-Royce Creates One-of-a-Kind Pink Ghost FAB1 for Charity

When individual buyers opt for an eye-popping pink paint job for their luxury ride, it's usually a statement of opulence and occasionally…bad taste, but when automakers do it, most of the times, it has something to do with breast cancer awareness, which is the case of the pink-colored Rolls-Royce Ghost Extended Wheelbase special featured in these photos. Read more »

BMW Museum in Munich Hosts First-Ever Rolls-Royce Exhibition

The BMW Museum, located in Munich, is the place to go for all car enthusiasts who find themselves in Bavaria and are in need of something automotive-related to visit. It is a modern building, filled with historic BMWs, concepts and various other displays related to the company.

Now, they have announced the public opening of the first-ever Rolls-Royce exhibition, which runs from March 21 until the end of March, 2014.

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The Wraith is Rolls Royce's Idea of a High-Performance Fastback Coupe

The Rolls Royce Wraith is officially here, with the British firm revealing their new coupe in front of the 2013 Geneva Motor Show audience. Aside from the fastback body shape, it features the company's most powerful engine ever, a 6.6-liter twin-turbo V12 with 624 hp (633 PS), as well as a number of interesting technical innovations. Read more »

Rolls Royce Brings the 624HP Wraith Coupe Out in the Open [Photos and Videos]

This is the all-new Wraith, Rolls Royce's luxurious interpretation of a performance coupe. Revealed just hours before it makes its first appearance in front of a crowd at the Geneva Motor Show on March 5, the Wraith is dubbed as the most powerful and fastest production car ever built by Rolls Royce. Read more »

New Rolls-Royce Wraith Coupe, First Official Photos

The most powerful Rolls Royce production car is a secret no more as images of the Wraith Coupe spilled all over the internet today revealing its "fastback" looks, less than 24 hours before its world premiere at the Geneva motor show. Read more »

Oops…Rolls Royce Recalls Phantom Because Fuel Filler May be Missing a Safety Component

The Rolls-Royce Phantom may cost upwards of $400,000, but it's not immune from recalls, which in this case, is somewhat embarrassing for the British carmaker as it discovered that one of its suppliers forgot to add a safety component. Read more »

Rolls-Royce Drops One Last Teaser of the Wraith to Tell us that it's a Fastback

When a debut of a new model is pending, automakers work in mysterious ways. After sharing four different teaser images of the upcoming Wraith coupe, including one that clearly reveals the coupe's profile, Rolls-Royce published one last photo, which it says, "confirms that its new model Wraith will be a fastback". Imagine that… Read more »

Rolls-Royce Reportedly Mulling Luxury SUV and V16-Powered Super Roadster

Slowly, but methodically, the BMW Group has expanded Rolls-Royce's offerings since it took over the company's automobile division in 1998. Currently, its lineup includes the Phantom sedan, LWB sedan, Drophead Coupe convertible and Coupe, and the Ghost sedan and LWB sedan models, while at next month's Geneva Auto Salon, it will present the new performance Wraith Coupe based on the Ghost. Read more »

Rolls-Royce Shows us the New Wraith Coupe's Timbered Door and Dash Clock

The truth about the all-new Rolls-Royce Wraith performance coupe is slowly unraveling. After two darkened shots of the exterior, the world's most famous luxury car brand released another pair of pictures, this time of the Wraith's cabin, which it says, "hints at the interior of an ultra-luxury yacht" – not the best use of words for a performance car, even if we’re talking about its styling… Read more »

New Rolls-Royce Wraith Coupe's Slow Strip Tease Continues

Here's a new teaser image of Rolls-Royce's high-performance, two-door version of the Ghost saloon, called Wraith. Previously, we saw a darkened rendering of the car's profile, and now, the British company is sharing an image of the Wraith's "muscular rear haunches" – those are Rolls-Royce's precise words. Read more »

Rolls-Royce Officially Shows New Wraith's Profile, Plus a Fresh Batch of Spy Photos

Less than 24 hours after we composed a single image from Rolls Royce's teaser website, the English brand came out with a high-resolution version of the darkened photo that reveals the new Wraith coupe's profile, which we digitally enhanced to give you a better look at the car.

Meanwhile, our own spy photographers dropped a new set of images of a Wraith prototype undergoing winter tests in our email box as well.

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We Piece Together the First Official Look at the New Rolls Royce Wraith Coupe

Just last week, Rolls-Royce released the name of its all-new Ghost-based coupe model, the Wraith, adding that it will make its global premiere at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in early March.

Britain's most famous carmaker also told us that in the weeks leading up to the show, it plans to "reveal additional information and a series of teaser images", which it did, beginning today with a smoke screen-style teaser on its public website where users can move their mouse to divulge bits and pieces of the car.

We understand that can be annoying, so we patched up all those pictures to create the single image you see here, and which provides us with the best look yet at the brand's new performance coupe.

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