Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé

Among the 63 Rolls-Royce entries in the MotorJury library, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2007. 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 Phantom Drophead Coupé 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 GT-R, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Tiguan, the Hyundai Hyundai i30 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé reads like this: the record lists its engine as 6749 cc V12; kerb weight is recorded at 2620 kg; drive goes through 6-speed automatic, 8-speed automatic; the layout is FR layout. 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 Phantom Drophead Coupé sits alongside the Rolls-Royce 100EX (2005), the Rolls-Royce 102EX, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, the Rolls-Royce Phantom VII (2003). The record names the Rolls-Royce Corniche V as its predecessor and the Rolls-Royce Dawn as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Ian Cameron. 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

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.