List of Rolls-Royce motor cars explained

This is a list of Rolls-Royce branded motor cars and includes vehicles manufactured by:

• Rolls-Royce Limited (1906–1973)
• Rolls-Royce Motors (1973–2003), which was created as a result of the demerger of Rolls-Royce Limited in 1973. Vickers plc owned Rolls-Royce Motors between 1980 and 1998. Volkswagen AG acquired Rolls-Royce Motors in 1998 and renamed the firm Bentley Motors Limited in 2003. Bentley Motors Limited is the direct successor of Rolls-Royce Motors and its predecessor entities and owns historical Rolls-Royce assets such as the Crewe factory, pre-2003 vehicle designs and the L Series V8 engine.
• Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, a subsidiary of BMW AG established in 1998 that began production of vehicles in 2003.

Vehicles

Rolls-Royce Limited vehicles

• 1904–06 10 hp
• 1905–05 15 hp
• 1905–08 20 hp
• 1905–07 30 hp
• 1905–06 V-8
• 1906–25 40/50 Silver Ghost
• 1922–29 Twenty
  • 1925–29 40/50 Phantom 1929–36 20/25
• 1929–35 Phantom II
• 1936–38 25/30
• 1936–39 Phantom III
• 1938–39 Wraith
• 1946–59 Silver Wraith
• 1949–55 Silver Dawn
• 1950–56 Phantom IV
• 1955–66 Silver Cloud
• 1959–68 Phantom V
• 1965–80 Silver Shadow/Silver Wraith II
• 1968–91 Phantom VI
• 1971–96 Corniche
• 1980–2000 Silver Spirit/Silver Spur

Bentley models (from 1933)

• 1933–37 Bentley 3½ L
• 1936–38 Bentley 4¼ L
• 1940–40 Bentley 4¼ L Mark V

Rolls-Royce Motors vehicles

• 1975–86 Camargue
• 1980–2000 Silver Spirit/Silver Spur

Bentley models were produced mostly in parallel with the above cars. The Bentley Continental coupés (produced in various forms from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s) did not have Rolls-Royce equivalents. Rolls-Royce Phantom limousines were also produced.

• 1998–2002 Silver Seraph/Park Ward
• 2000–02 Corniche V

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars vehicles

• 2003–17 Phantom VII
• 2007–16 Phantom Drophead Coupé
• 2008–16 Phantom Coupé
• 2010–present Ghost
• 2013–22 Wraith
• 2016–22 Dawn
• 2017 Sweptail (one-off)
• 2017–present Phantom VIII
• 2018–present Cullinan
• 2021–2022 Rolls-Royce Boat Tail (3 made)
• 2023–present Rolls-Royce Spectre (electric)
• 2023 Rolls-Royce Droptail (4 "expressions" made)

See also

• FAB 1
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce

References

• Web site: Rolls-Royce and Bentley Models . Rolls-Royce and Bentley Photos, Reports and Books . 2007-10-27 .