Rolls-Royce Phantom

Rolls-Royce Phantom

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Feast your eyes on this dream, with its glass tilt/slide sun roof, 31-inch tires, doors that open from the center and that famous Flying Lady on the grill. That's the standard stuff. Once you open the doors, well, you're climbing into luxury land.

Here you'll find leather so soft and supple, it feels like a fine handbag. It's even vat dyed, which means if you scratch it, no one will notice. The floors boast wool carpeting covered with thick lamb's wool mats. The headliner is cashmere.

Options include theatre-style rear seating and opportunities such as matching the colors to your wife's lipstick or building a refrigerator in the trunk. (If you opt for the standard colors, the salesman rolls out 18 exterior hues, 16 interior wool and leather shades and six different wood veneers. The combination of possibilities means it could take years before two identical cars shoot out of the Goodwood, England factory.)

And did we mention the clock in the dash's center panel rotates out of the way to reveal an LCD screen for navigation? The R-R emblems on the wheels are bearing-mounted, which means the letters remain upright while you zip down the road. The Flying Lady on the hood retracts to avoid theft. Backseat passengers can pull out picnic trays, and Rolls kindly mounted umbrellas in the edge of each of the rear doors so you can retrieve them without getting wet.

Price: $328,750.

-- Posted: Feb. 15, 2005