Rolls-Royce Ghost

The Rolls-Royce Ghost is one of 63 Rolls-Royce models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2009. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Rolls-Royce Ghost properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan 370Z, the Jeep Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Lexus Lexus LFA — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Rolls-Royce Ghost reads like this: the record lists its engine as 6.6 L N74B66 V12-T; kerb weight is recorded at 2490 kg / 2520 kg (Extended Wheelbase); drive goes through 8-speed 8HP90 automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / FR (first generation) / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive layout / F4 (second generation). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Rolls-Royce story

Within Rolls-Royce's own catalogue the Rolls-Royce Ghost sits alongside the Rolls-Royce 100EX (2005), the Rolls-Royce 102EX, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé. The record names the Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph as its predecessor and the caption = 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Henry Cloke. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: West Sussex, England (Goodwood plant).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Rolls-Royce Ghost costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.