Rolls-Royce Ghost (II)
Why 3.7: The second-generation Ghost moved onto the aluminium spaceframe the Phantom uses, added all-wheel drive and four-wheel steering, and hung a camera off the windscreen to read the road ahead and pre-load the dampers. It is the smallest, plainest and most self-driven car Rolls-Royce makes.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The 6.75 twin-turbo V12 leaves a distant hum you notice only when it is working. But Rolls-Royce tuned every component to one resonant frequency and then added a faint whisper back, because total silence unsettled testers. Nothing here is intended to be heard.
12-cylinder · turbocharged · 5,500 rpm redline · rated 3.2 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €306k (2021) → €225k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Two ISOFIX positions on the outer rear seats, the outer pair being the ones the standard covers.
The rear anchors are the supported route — the manual points child seats there, and front-passenger ISOFIX is the exception rather than the rule. A belt-mounted seat up front needs the airbag off, and cars with a rear row don't always fit a deactivation switch, precisely because the rear seats exist.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
Rolls-Royce describes the Ghost as post-opulent and means it commercially: this is the car that outsells the Phantom several times over because it is the one people buy to use. The second generation, launched in 2020, is a genuinely different vehicle from the BMW-platform first — same 6.75-litre V12, entirely new structure shared with the Phantom and Cullinan — which is why it sits here rather than being read as a variant of the Wraith already on this index. Owners drive it themselves more than they drive any other Rolls, and the mileage reflects that, modestly. Retention does not. A Ghost is heavily leased, arrives at auction at two and three years old in large numbers, and loses a third of its value in that window; the market is deep enough that trading one is frictionless, and a frictionless market is a traded market. It scores above the Wraith and just below the Cullinan for exactly the reason the methodology predicts — it is used more than the coupe and less than the SUV, and it is flipped about as freely as both.