Block Out Peasants With Your Rolls-Royce Phantom

Are you tired of commoners gawking at you through the windows of your Rolls? Is your chauffeur too much of a peon with which to share time? Do you want to combine your desire for solitude with your love of spending house-sized money on a car? Well, fret no more.

Rolls-Royce has announced the introduction of a “Privacy Suite” for its Extended Wheelbase Phantom, a car exquisitely capable of delivering a crushing commentary on the inferiority of your neighbor’s bank statement.

Opting for the Privacy Suite cleaves the Phantom’s cabin in half with an vast slab of Electrochromatic Glass, a unit which allows the front and rear occupants to be visually separated at the touch of a button. The oligarch occupying the rear throne is offered the option to see through the glass and on to the road ahead or to instantly transform the glass to opaque.

Rolls says it has developed a frequency-specific compound made out of moonbeams and unicorn feathers to inhibit the transmission of conversations in the rear cabin to the front cabin. There is a fully integrated intercom system that allows backseat ballers to yell commands at their driver. It is a two-way voice system, but only those in the rear compartment can reject a call; those up front are forced endure the verbal barrage.

In addition, the fortification wall features what is described as a large aperture whose opening is controlled solely by the rear passenger. Rolls allows documents or – wait for it – “other objects” to be easily passed between the front and rear cabins. When open, the aperture is illuminated to ensure passengers are satisfied with the nature of the documents or “other objects” before taking delivery.

Rolls thoughtfully fits this Phantom with a Bespoke Rear Theatre Entertainment system. Integrated into the Privacy Suite, it includes two high-def 12-inch monitors linked a suite of software. The company takes pains to point out an HDMI port (just like ones included on family minivans!) that allows passengers to synchronise their “highly secure personal devices.” Presumably, Rolls is talking about something other than a smartphone, as we all know that Apple and Samsung will eventually take pictures of your bosoms and send them to the internet.

Rear-seat rockstars will also enjoy a Starlight Headliner and what is described as a “Bespoke Clock”, which one can only assume tells time with equal élan as your highly secure personal device.

Naturally, one can also experience this type of driver/passenger separation for no cost at all. Simply act like a ne’er-do-well and you may quickly find yourself enjoying the backseat environs of a police cruiser, a vehicle which also has a partition between the front and rear seats. Good luck finding a bespoke rear theatre entertainment system back there, though; you’ll have to use your imagination.

The company chose to unveil this altar to excess at the 2018 Chengdu Motor Show. This should not be a surprise, as consumers in that market value rear seat space and gadgets above just about everything else. Back in this country, Rolls-Royce North America installs a new President tomorrow, September 1st, handing the corner office to Martin Fritsches, who started his career at BMW 20 years ago in Argentina.

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