"We love its style, its sumptuousness and the attention to detail that one would expect from a Rolls-Royce.

The interior is a very different experience to that in the Phantom, more driver-focused as the Ghost is likely to be driven more by its owners.

Yet there is almost as much room in the back and it is no less grand than its bigger brother.

Even the rear-hinged back doors are present and correct.

Unsurprisingly, it's no Phantom, but instead the less grand, more intimate kind of Rolls-Royce it always needed to be' (Autocar magazine, 2010).

Previewed at the Geneva and Shanghai Motor Shows but formally unveiled in Frankfurt, the Rolls-Royce Ghost was styled by Andreas Thurner.

Intended to complement the imperious Phantom, the newcomer was more aesthetically balanced (albeit at the cost of a lesser road presence).

Engineered by Helmut Riedl who had overseen the development of its larger sibling, the Ghost was based around a steel monocoque chassis equipped with such advanced full...