Rolls-Royce Manchester Ghost is a car that converges the quintessence of the city of Manchester, where the two founders of the British luxury car brand first met.
Rolls-Royce is named after Charles Rolls and Henry Royce, two Manchester compatriots who first met in 1904, marking the mission to create “the best car in the world”.
The place where they met was the Midland Hotel, Manchester. It is an important city in Rolls-Royce’s centuries-long history and it took almost 119 years to become the inspiration for a personalized Rolls-Royce Ghost.
The Manchester Ghost is the first Rolls-Royce named after the city of Manchester. The luxury sedan is the culmination of two years of continuous work by the Bespoke Collective division.
The car’s exterior is heavily inspired by the Manchester Bee, one of the city’s most famous icons. The bee represents the industriousness of Manchester residents, and the car’s C-pillar features a turquoise Turchese motif inspired by this symbol. The Manchester Bee is also embroidered on the front and rear seat cushions.
The car’s traditional silver exterior is accentuated by the turquoise Turchese longitudinal body line, the wheel caps have small stripe details in the same tone as the brake calipers.
Meanwhile, the Manchester Ghost’s interior features several personalized elements that celebrate the city’s rich history. The Illuminated Fascia instrument panel, with 10,000 laser-engraved dots, depicts the ethereal landscape of Manchester from above, with the largest dot representing the location of the Midland Hotel. This dashboard displays the title of Tony Walsh’s poem “This is the Place”, a tribute to the city of Manchester.
The middle of the rear seats is embroidered with the names of famous Manchester sites, while the ceiling depicts a pattern inspired by Graphene molecular grids related to the Graphene metamaterial first discovered by the University of Manchester.
The door sill panels celebrate Manchester as a technology pioneer. The city’s abbreviation, “MCR” (written in binary), is a reference to “The Manchester Baby”, the world’s first program-storage electronic computer.
