Rolls-Royce Pays Homage to the City of Manchester With This One-Off Ghost Commission
Featuring the Manchester Bee, a Tony Walsh poem, landmark embroidery and more.
Rolls-Royce prides itself on making some of the finest automobiles in the world, and now it is flexing its extensive bespoke capabilities with the Rolls-Royce Manchester Ghost.
Inspired by the great Northern British city of Manchester, this Ghost has been given a full reworking that honors everything that makes the city so adored. It starts with the Manchester Bee — the emblem that has stood for Mancunian’s and the city’s industrial past since 1842 — with it being somewhat adapted and hand-painted in “Turchese” on the car’s C-pillar.
A running coach stripe falls on the shoulders and hips of the car also in “Turchese,” while inside things get even more Manc-inspired. For example, the Manchester Bee motif is embroidered in colorful and outlined forms on all four seats, while on the dashboard fascia, you’ll find more than 10,000 illuminated laser-etched dots mapping Manchester from above, with the largest dot identifying the Midland Hotel, where Rolls-Royce’s founders first met. Furthermore, this fascia recites the Tony Walsh poem This is the Place, itself an ode to Manchester.
The customization doesn’t stop there. Between the two rear seats, you’ll find a central seat pillar decorated in tone-on-tone embroidery denoting various Mancunian landmarks, as well as “MCR” binary-inscribed illuminated door treadplates. Lastly, a headliner depicting a graphene lattice-inspired pattern, drawn from the two University of Manchester professors that first utilized the properties of graphene, rounds off this custom Manchester Ghost.
Take a look at the Rolls-Royce Manchester Ghost, which took more than two years to make, in the gallery above.
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