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| Stronger and even more elite, the Ghost Rolls Royce. |
BACK in the bad old days of apartheid, a certain young troublemaker
stood in the Pretoria Supreme Court and told the judge he was hoping to live for
and achieve an equal society in which black men could earn a living wage.
“Africans want to be paid a living wage. Africans want to perform
work which they are capable of doing, and not work which the government declares
them to be capable of,” the troublemaker said.
Fast-forward 53 years from 1963, when Nelson Mandela made his
famous speech, and South Africa has achieved — in part at least — the society
that Madiba was prepared to die for, a society where entrepreneurial people of
all kinds can get much more than a living wage.
It is for this society that the Daytona Group imports luxury cars
like Rolls-Royces, from which premium stable KwaZulu-Natal’s most publicised glam couple, S’bu and Shauwn Mpisane, acquired two Rolls-Royce Wraiths with
which to enter the new year.
A Rolls-Royce Wraith retails for about R8,2 million, but for those
who, like the Mpisanes, don’t have to ask about the price, there is now an even
more powerful and — it has to be said — ever so slightly more exclusive
Rolls-Royce: the Ghost with V-Specification.
The Ghost used to be most powerful Rolls in its time, making 420 kW
and 780 Nm from its 6,5-liter V-12 engine. That title has since been taken by
the Mpisanes’ Wraith. But the Ghost in V-Specification now has 30 more British
horses under the bonnet (22 kW) and does the 0-100 run in less than five
seconds, with 80% of its power available at idle. The interior is elite and the
exterior a more assertive profile, which the owner can have painted in any of
44 000 hues. (Note, nothing as vulgar as a mere colour touches the flanks of a
Rolls-Royce).
Chief executive of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Torsten Müller-Ötvös,
said the limited series celebrated the Ghost’s exquisite 6,6 litre Rolls-Royce
V12 engine.
“Since its introduction in 2009, an extraordinary marriage of
assured presence and remarkable driving dynamics has endeared Ghost to a new
generation of highly discerning businessmen and women, ensuring the car’s
position as the statement of choice for a growing band of successful
entrepreneurs around the world.”
The Ghost V-Specification is only available on commission until
this June, so best hurry if you also don’t have to bother with pesky details,
such as a vehicle’s price.
