2025 Rolls-Royce Phantom
Every Rolls-Royce satisfies the wants and needs of their ultra-wealthy buyers, but one model surpasses all others in prestige and luxury: the Phantom. The range-topper in Rolls’ lineup of range-toppers, the Phantom pampers with a vault-like cabin, an effortlessly smooth ride, and a seemingly endless level of customization. A silky-smooth twin-turbo V-12 engine—one of the last of its kind—quietly idling under the hood provides an abundance of power to the Phantom’s rear wheels, but your driver’s hot-rod tendencies will be curbed by a desire to lope along in unparalleled comfort. The rear seat is the place the be, especially in the Extended model, which allows for limousine-like legroom. Power-adjustable rear seats with massage, a built-in beverage chiller, and rear-seat entertainment displays are only the beginning of what you can expect to find if you’re ever lucky enough to find yourself inside one of these half-million-dollar marvels.
The Phantom carries over to 2025 without any major changes, but a very-low-production Phantom Scintilla special edition debuted at the 2024 Pebble Beach Concours event. Only ten will be built and only three are coming to the U.S., all of which are already sold to lucky customers. The Scintilla wears a ceramic two-tone paint job of Andalusian White and Thracian Blue; the Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament also wears a ceramic white finish. Inside, milled aluminum artwork is displayed on the dashboard right of the infotainment display, and tweed fabric upholstery with intricately stitched embroidery adds another artful element.
The price of the 2025 Rolls-Royce Phantom starts at $517,750 and goes up to $597,750 depending on the trim and options.
One does not simply choose a Phantom—or any Rolls-Royce for that matter—off the dealer lot. No. These cars are built to the exacting requirements of the millionaires and billionaires who purchase them—and these carriages of the rich are often customized down to the last detail. We won’t even begin to suggest which special-order options are worth adding because, well, how would we know? We would, however, suggest springing for the Extended Wheelbase model to take advantage of its limousine-like rear-seat legroom. As they say, go big or go home.
Prodigious power is provided by a silken 563-hp twin-turbo V-12 paired with an eight-speed automatic and rear-wheel drive. To say that the ride is smooth would be an understatement—imagine being carried aloft on a fluffy cloud. The Phantom practically levitates over the road; it features a pothole-spotting camera that helps the suspension adapt to road imperfections in real-time. It’s a library-quiet, sensory-deprivation cocoon.
Acceleration is brisk, but Rolls-Royce’s claimed 5.1-second zero-to-60-mph time isn’t anything you’d appreciate your chauffeur trying to replicate. The Phantom is better suited to easing along lazily; delicate inputs to throttle and steering are what it likes best.
A Phantom owner’s conspicuous consumption is matched by the car’s penchant for consuming fuel. The EPA’s fuel-economy estimates run as low as 12-mpg city, although the Phantom’s 20-mpg highway rating actually bests the smaller Rolls-Royce Ghost’s by 2 mpg. If we ever are lucky enough to have a chance to put the Phantom through our 200-mile highway fuel-economy test, we’ll update this story with test results. For more information about the Phantom’s fuel economy, visit the EPA’s website.
