High rollers

No, you can’t buy it. The 200EX you see before you is an experimental model, which means that the Rolls Royce team over in Goodwood, England—the designer, the engine guy, the interiors guy, all of them— created this car simply to test out their ideas. That is, they made this car for fun. And isn’t that what Rolls Royces are meant to be for?

Look at the haunches and the long prow, the sleek lines of the flanks and the tapered derriere, all in Darkest Tungsten—it’s a Rolls all right, just a shade more muscular and dynamic. And, as with the Phantom, the doors open up like a gift box, the rear doors on a rear hinge, an effect which adds to what the Rolls team calls its “sense of theatre”.

The thing about experimental cars is they pass, like dreams, never to prowl the streets. Only one 200EX has been made, and since its display at the Geneva Motor Show in March, it will likely never grace a private garage (Or if it will, Rolls isn’t telling). The closest you’ll get is the RR4, which goes into production next year. It’ll be oh, Rs 4 crore or so. Put me down for a dozen.

— For more information call Pankaj Sharma, Rolls Royce, on +91 9899991949