The streets are completely deserted at this ungodly hour. This is downtown Mumbai and it was intensely throbbing with life not a few hours ago. Now, there is complete silence except for the steady patter of the rain. Bar a few listless security guards, it is, well, like a ghost town. The perfect setting, then, for a supernatural automobile, that too in haunting white, to waft around. The new Rolls-Royce Ghost whooshes past gorgeous, century-old buildings and is completely at home here; after all, you could mistake this part of urbs prima in Indis for London. This car’s illustrious predecessors would have been regulars in this business district several decades back. It looks like the Ghost has come back to one of its old haunts.
If there’s one venerable automotive marque that can call India its second home, it’s Rolls-Royce. Between the two great wars, the country accounted for over one-third of Rolls-Royce sales, mainly because of Indian royalty. India was, and is, an important market for the hallowed brand that’s now helmed by BMW. When almost 40 units of the Ghost are spoken for in India in barely nine months since its introduction in the country, it had better be, especially when each Ghost costs upwards of Rs 3 crore.
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