Celebrating 10 Years of Phantom Production


Rolls Royce delivered its first Phantom on 1 January 2003 at one minute past midnight to its delighted customer.

1 January 2013 marked its 10th anniversary of Phantom production. The Phantom production was initially one car per day, slowly rising to three per day by the end of 2003.
Today, the Rolls-Royce two model family (Phantom and Ghost) has six models and company’s craftsmen and women hand-build up to 20 cars each day.Starting with a workforce of less than 400 in 2003, there are now more than 1400 people employed at the Goodwood-based manufacturing plant and head office.

“Rolls-Royce is a great British manufacturing success story and I am very proud to celebrate 10 Years of Excellence”, said Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.