Perfect Auto Collection Signature Listing2019 Rolls-Royce PhantomVIN SCA687S59KU104686 | 16,808 milesRolls-Royce builds nothing above the Phantom. This one was commissioned in Arctic White over Hotspur Red - a cabin chosen rather than selected.Why We Acquired This VehicleThe Phantom is the car Rolls-Royce measures itself by. Everything else Goodwood builds descends from it, and for more than ninety years the name has belonged to whatever the company considered the most accomplished motor car it was capable of producing. This is the eighth generation, introduced for 2018 on an aluminum architecture built for this model alone, and it remains among the most silent and most isolated passenger vehicles in production.What we look for in a Phantom is evidence of a commission rather than a purchase, and this car provides it. The interior was ordered from the Commissioned Collection with coordinated leather, veneer, and detailing rather than left to a catalog combination, and the equipment list continues in the same direction: the rear compartment fully appointed for passengers, the night-driving technology fitted, and the exterior jewelry and wheel treatment specified rather than defaulted. The verified appointments are detailed in full below.It is finished in Arctic White over a Commissioned Collection Hotspur Red interior - a combination that reads as formal from the outside and unmistakably personal the moment a rear door is opened. At 16,808 miles across six years it has been used gently and shows the mileage of a car kept for occasions rather than errands.At a GlanceHighlights Starlight Headliner with All-Leather Headlining and Pillars Rear Theater Configuration In Car Entertainment Night Vision Spirit of Ecstasy - Illuminated 21-Inch Part Polished 7-Spoke Alloy Wheels with Chromed Centers Wheel Center Matched to Contrast Mahogany Interior Veneer Contrast Lambswool Footmats RR Monogram to All Headrests Seat Piping Colored Steering Wheel Tread Plates - Phantom Reverse Camera with Surround View Exterior: Arctic White | Interior: Commissioned Collection Hotspur Red 16,808 miles 6.75-Liter Twin-Turbocharged V12 8-Speed Automatic Transmission Rear-Wheel Drive SCA687S59KU104686+ Additional Factory Options & Features - see the complete equipment list for the full specificationThe Perfect Auto Collection Experience Personalized Video Walkarounds Independent Third-Party Inspections Welcome Nationwide Enclosed Transportation Boutique, Appointment-Level Service Transparent Representation From Start to FinishOur PerspectiveAt Perfect Auto Collection, we do not measure a vehicle by its badge alone. We ask a quieter question: how does it present, and would we be proud to place it in our own collection?A Phantom answers this question differently from any other car, because the answer is almost entirely inside it. From the outside this one is restrained - white, upright, and quiet about itself, which is the correct posture for the model. Then a rear door opens onto Hotspur Red, and the restraint turns out to have been deliberate contrast. The cabin is where the commission lives, and it was clearly ordered by someone who intended to be driven in it. That is the Phantom working exactly as Goodwood designed it to.Why Enthusiasts Value This ModelThe Phantom name has carried Rolls-Royce since 1925, and it has never been applied to anything other than the company's flagship. That continuity is the whole point: a Phantom is not positioned against rivals, because Rolls-Royce does not accept that it has any. The eighth generation is the purest modern expression of that idea, built on its own aluminum spaceframe rather than shared with anything else and engineered above all for silence.The engineering behind that silence is what people underestimate. More than 300 pounds of insulation, double-glazed glass, and specially developed tires all exist to remove sound that most manufacturers would consider already inaudible. The result is a cabin quiet enough that Rolls-Royce engineers had to reintroduce a faint tone, because complete silence proved disorienting. Nothing else in production is built to that brief.What informed buyers look for is specific: a genuinely commissioned interior rather than a standard palette, mileage that reflects careful use, and the rear-compartment and night-driving equipment that separates a fully appointed car from a base one. Those are the examples worth seeking out, because with a Phantom the specification is what separates a listing that claims a car is special from one that can show it.Factory and Vehicle HighlightsStarlight Headliner with All-Leather Headlining and PillarsThe Starlight Headliner sets hundreds of fiber-optic lights into the roof lining by hand, and this specification carries leather across the headlining and the pillars as well.Why it matters: It is the feature most closely identified with the marque, and it exists purely to change how the cabin feels after dark - the roof stops being a surface and becomes depth above the passengers. Extending leather onto the pillars removes the last of the fabric overhead, so the material continues unbroken from the doors to the roof.Rear Theater Configuration In Car EntertainmentThe Rear Theater Configuration mounts two tilt-adjustable 9.2-inch monitors in the backs of the front seats, with controls in the rear armrest and an auxiliary input for connecting outside devices.Why it matters: A Phantom is bought to be traveled in, and this makes the rear compartment self-sufficient rather than dependent on the driver's systems. The tilt adjustment is the practical part: a screen fixed at one angle is unusable from a reclined seat, which is how this car is actually occupied.Night VisionThe Night Vision system uses a thermal camera to detect people and animals beyond the reach of the headlights and displays them to the driver.Why it matters: On unlit roads it sees warm bodies well before the low beams reach them, which is exactly the situation where a car of this length and mass has the least margin to react. It is also among the more expensive individual technologies Rolls-Royce offers and is frequently absent on examples of this generation.Spirit of Ecstasy - IlluminatedThe Spirit of Ecstasy mascot is rendered in frosted crystal and lit from within.Why it matters: The figurine has stood on the radiator of every Rolls-Royce since 1911, and lighting it turns the single most recognizable emblem in motoring into the car's calling card at night. Against Arctic White paint it is the one point of drama the exterior allows itself.21-Inch Part Polished 7-Spoke Alloy Wheels with Chromed CentersThe car rides on 21-inch part-polished seven-spoke wheels with chromed wheel centers.Why it matters: Rolls-Royce deliberately keeps Phantom wheel designs simple, because an intricate wheel fights the calm of the coachwork. The part-polished finish gives the spokes light without pattern, and the chromed centers add the brightwork that ties them to the grille and mascot rather than to anything sporting.Wheel Center Matched to ContrastThe wheel centers are painted to match the vehicle's upper contrast color rather than left in a standard finish.Why it matters: It is the kind of detail that only comes from a commissioning conversation - nobody adds it later, and almost nobody notices it consciously. What it does is close the loop between the coachwork and the wheels, so the car reads as one object specified together rather than a body sitting on a catalog wheel.Mahogany Interior VeneerThe interior woodwork is finished in mahogany veneer.Why it matters: Rolls-Royce cuts its veneers from a single tree and mirrors them across the cabin so the grain runs symmetrically from one side to the other, which is why the wood in a Phantom looks composed rather than applied. Mahogany is the warm, traditional choice, and against a red interior it reads as considered rather than loud.Contrast Lambswool FootmatsFour lambswool footmats are fitted in a contrasting color, with a hard-wearing leather section set into the driver's mat directly beneath the accelerator and brake pedals.Why it matters: Deep lambswool underfoot is one of the sensations people remember longest from a Rolls-Royce, and the leather insert solves the one problem with it - a heel wears a bare patch through wool faster than anything else in the car. Contrast color makes them part of the commission instead of an accessory.RR Monogram to All HeadrestsThe interlocking RR monogram is embroidered into every headrest, front and rear.Why it matters: Each monogram is stitched individually and has to align with the leather panel it sits on, which is why it is specified rather than standard. Fitting it to all four headrests treats the rear seats as the equal of the front, which in a Phantom is the correct hierarchy.Seat PipingThe seats carry piping worked along their edges and seams.Why it matters: Piping is what gives an upholstered seat its outline; without it a large leather chair reads as a single soft mass. In a strongly colored interior it defines the shape of every surface and is the clearest visual sign that the seats were specified as part of a coordinated commission.Colored Steering WheelThe steering wheel is trimmed in color rather than the standard finish.Why it matters: It carries the interior commission through to the one component the driver never lets go of, so the person at the wheel sits inside the same specification the rear passengers do rather than in a default black cockpit.Tread Plates - PhantomThe door sills carry Phantom-branded tread plates.Why it matters: Rolls-Royce doors open rearward, so the sill is presented squarely to whoever is getting in rather than hidden behind a swi...

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Night Vision, Reverse Camera, In Car Entertainment : Rear Theatre Configuration, Exterior Features : Spirit Of Ecstasy - Illuminated, Wheels and Tires : 21 Inch Part Polished 7-Spoke Alloy Wheels, Wheels and Tires : Wheel Centre Matched to Contrast, Comfort Features : Coloured Steering Wheel, Comfort Features : Contrast Lambswool Footmats, Comfort Features : Mahogany Interior Veneer, Comfort Features : Starlight Headliner, Comfort Features : Tread Plates - Phantom, Seats : RR Monogram To All Headrests, Seats : Seat Piping, In Car Entertainment : Rear Theatre Configuration, Exterior Features : Spirit Of Ecstasy - Illuminated, Wheels and Tires : 21 Inch Part Polished 7-Spoke Alloy Wheels, Wheels and Tires : Wheel Centre Matched to Contrast, Comfort Features : Coloured Steering Wheel, Comfort Features : Contrast Lambswool Footmats, Comfort Features : Mahogany Interior Veneer, Comfort Features : Starlight Headliner, Comfort Features : Tread Plates - Phantom, Seats : RR Monogram To All Headrests, Seats : Seat Piping