Telegraph.co.uk (Enlarge photo)

If you have £300,000 to spare, the handsome new Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé may well be just the car for you, says Peter Hall

Noticed more money in your wallet recently? No? Then it's fair to assume you're not a banker, stockbroker, oil baron or arms dealer. In the absence of significant wage inflation, the rising cost of living signifies that someone, somewhere, is getting fat at your expense. To put it bluntly, the rich are getting richer.... // Telegraph.co.uk

MotorTrend Magazine (Enlarge photo)

At 100 mph you can't hear the clock in the new Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe. That's because the clock doesn't tick. But you can't hear much of anything else, either, apart from the rustle of wind around the A-pillars. It might be the sportiest Rolls-Royce ever -- faster than a Porsche Boxster to 60 mph and boasting a myriad of detail changes to suspension, steering, and transmission tune designed to sharpen the its responses -- but the Phantom Coupe is first and foremost a luxury car.

I've just spent two days and about 600 miles in the Phantom Coupe, driving from the factory at Chichester in the south of England to Crozet, just outside Geneva. A long-distance trip like this is exactly what Rolls-Royce says the car was designed to do, though in truth the folks who can afford to spend $400,000... // MotorTrend Magazine