Dreamt up by one Jeremy Westerlund while studying at the Art Center school of design, the Rolls-Royce Apparition is a rolling trompe-l'œil that at once both reaches back into the automaker's history and extends into the future.

The design is based around the old motor carriages that had a chauffeur sitting up front, exposed to the elements, with the passengers coddled inside. Like most contemporary Rolls models, the front is utterly dominated by the prominent grille and hood ornament. It features unique touches like real mahogany inserts in the wheels, and the imposing overall shape is long and low: the designer took his cues from sailing yachts, and even though the model is built to 1:4 scale, it's still nearly six feet long. If such an extreme example of fantasy ever became reality, it would measure 279 inches overall – that's over 23 feet, or about four feet longer than the Phantom. See if you can wrap your head around it in our extensive high-resolution image gallery below.

http://www.beautifullife.info/automotive-design/rolls-royce-apparition-by-jeremy-westerlund/
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2011/01/rolls_royce_app.php
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/06/rolls-royce-apparition-concept-messes-with-our-heads/



Rolls-Royce Apparition concept car proves ghosts hate windshields

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This is serious,this is what future cars will look like

What is dis arrant rubbish

Its not sleek at all and it looks too heavy for a future car.

This is the height of grotesque car manufacturing!!! Fugly car!!!

This concept car hmm. .. Love the design, But I guess Its all for luxury sake, Kudos to d designer tho*

Somehow reminds me of a hammerhead shark.

Beautiful concept, but to eliminate the drivers's exposure to elements, a periscope windshield can be fabricated to reflect real vision with appropriate refractive index. This is out of the box thinking.

Chai... where is ma beetle? cheap, reliable,available,,affordable etc.... and existing.... this one na pie in the sky

citizenY:
Chai... where is ma beetle? cheap, reliable,available,,affordable etc.... and existing.... this one na pie in the sky

are you also saying if you are offered a Roll Royce and Beatle to pick only one will you still pick the latter

Which part is the front and which is the back?

Billyonaire:
Beautiful concept, but to eliminate the drivers's exposure to elements, a periscope windshield can be fabricated to reflect real vision with appropriate refractive index. This is out of the box thinking.

Omo u go school !

finally they built a car that can take people to heaven.

i pray it remains a concept car

PAPAS.....


AND PLEASE PUT SOME TWENTY ONE RIMS ON THAT

The dam.n thing looks like an expensive casket on wheels

This car looks like what will start talking to you and inform you that you have just joined the Autobots decepticon war!!

Can't imagine sticking Nigerian vehicle plate number on this robot. Its like hanging cowrie necklace (like those hunter's dogs) on a samoyed.

If i happen to own it, i would never attach any plate number. Even FRSC and police on sighting it would be like CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIINEKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, i would have being 30km away before they'd start arguing if it was a vehicle that passed and if it actually had a number-plate.

Mayydayy:
finally they built a car that can take people to heaven.

Na. .. they can do better !

There are big trucks on the road ooo,prevention is better than cure.