The idea of a Rolls-Royce wagon should repulse us,
right? Yet here we are, looking at a rendering of just such a design, and
somehow it doesn't look all that bad. Almost natural, really. The rendering was
drawn up by X-Tomi Design, based on the all-new eighth-generation Phantom
limousine.
It's the height of elegance and is sure to find
eager customers among celebrities and captains of industry from Beverly Hills
to Mayfair to the shores of the Persian Gulf and the capitalizing capitals of
the Middle Kingdom.
For one, we've seen Rolls-Royce
wagons before, coachbuilt decades ago for the most part as hunting vehicles for
the landed gentry in the days before the SUV. For another, the Phantom is
already the size of a truck, even if it does have a trunk instead of a
tailgate. And the manufacturer itself is working on a wagon based on the same
platform as the Phantom, albeit sitting taller to meet the demands of moneyed
customers clamoring for ever-higher-end luxury crossovers.
None of that means that Rolls is likely to offer a
Phantom wagon. But to our eyes, for all the reasons mentioned above, it
wouldn't look all that out of place if it did.
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