Wednesday, March 18, 2009

200EX show car is finished in darkest tungsten

08/03/2009

It won't matter what Rolls-Royce calls its 200EX concept when it reaches production; the press has already boiled it down to an inelegant if appropriate label.

When Rolls-Royce's 200EX was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show on Tuesday, it had already been labelled the "baby roller" for some years.

It all came out of the UK car magazines as a handy way to describe the new, smaller model.

The 5.4 metre-long 200EX is a design study set to compete with its former sister brand Bentley's Continental model, which is less than half the price of the Roll-Royce Phantom and selling in thousands rather than hundreds. Using what Rolls-Royce calls its new RR4 platform, the car is due for production in 2010. Read more...

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