Start with what the Rolls-Royce Twenty is: a 4-door convertible / 4-door sedan with 3127 cc I6, built from 1922 to 1929, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Sir Henry Royce. 2,940 were built.
How it came about
The Rolls-Royce Twenty was Rolls-Royce's "small car" for the 1920s, produced from 1922 to 1929 alongside the 40/50 Silver Ghost and the successor to the 40/50, the Phantom. It was intended to appeal to owner-drivers but many were sold to customers with chauffeurs.
The hardware
The engine is 3127 cc I6. On the scales it comes to 1721 kg. Drive goes through a 3-speed manual / 4-speed manual. 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 3.275 m. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Rolls-Royce line-up the Rolls-Royce Twenty has a clear place: it handed the line to the 20/25. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Alfa Romeo RL, the Citroën Type C, the Fiat 804. Its Rolls-Royce stablemates include the Rolls-Royce 100EX and the Rolls-Royce 102EX.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Rolls-Royce Twenty — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.
Rolls-Royce Twenty limousine1925