The Rolls-Royce Camargue is a 2-door saloon from Rolls-Royce, built from 1975 to 1986, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Under the bonnet: 6.75 . Paolo Martin at Pininfarina drew it.
The story
The Rolls-Royce Camargue is a 2-door luxury saloon manufactured and marketed by Rolls-Royce Motors from 1975–1986.
Designed by Paolo Martin at Pininfarina, the Camargue was the first post-war production Rolls-Royce not designed in-house (not including the more prolific coachbuilt Corniche by Mulliner-Park Ward, and the coachbuilt variants of production models such as Silver Wraith, Silver Cloud, and Silver Shadow which were built by firms such as James Young, Mulliner, Park Ward, Hooper, et al). The Camargue derives its name from the coastal region in southern France.
What is underneath
Power comes from 6.75 . It weighs 5135 lb. It shifts through a 3-speed TH400 automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 120 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Hyundai Pony, the Volkswagen Polo, the BMW 3 Series — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Rolls-Royce catalogue sit the Rolls-Royce 100EX and the Rolls-Royce 102EX.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Rolls-Royce Camargue has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.