{"id":56144,"date":"2026-06-04T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/56144\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:07:16","slug":"rolls-royce-black-badge-ghost-tt-edition-honors-rolls-1906-iom-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/56144\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost TT edition honors Rolls&#8217; 1906 IOM win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesupercarblog.com\/ultra-exclusive-30-million-rolls-royce-la-rose-noire-droptail-spotted-in-london\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolls-Royce<\/a> has unveiled the one-off Black Badge Ghost Tourist Trophy edition on the Isle of Man, celebrating 120 years since Charles Stewart Rolls claimed victory at the 1906 Tourist Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>That historic run, completed alongside mechanic Eric Platford, saw their Light 20HP conquer the Highroads Course in just over four hours at an average speed of 39.4 mph. By today\u2019s standards, it sounds modest. Back then, it was groundbreaking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rolls-Royce-Black-Badge-Ghost-TT-Edition-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost TT Edition (2)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This modern tribute carries that legacy in a far subtler way. The Ghost is finished in a deep Dark Emerald shade, echoing the original car\u2019s green bodywork, while a single Tan coachline flows cleanly across the silhouette. Look closer and you\u2019ll spot a delicate hand-painted \u20184\u2019 in Arctic White, a nod to Rolls\u2019 starting position on race day.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, it\u2019s a restrained celebration. Black leather meets Technical Fibre, contrasted by Tan accents and stitching. The references to that 1906 triumph are there, but like everything Rolls-Royce does, they are subtle; present but well-contained, rather than loud.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rolls-Royce-Black-Badge-Ghost-TT-Edition-1.webp\" alt=\"Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost TT Edition (2)\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Under the bonnet sits Rolls-Royce\u2019s familiar 6.75-litre twin-turbocharged V12, pushing out 592 bhp and 664 lb-ft of torque. It is mated to an 8-speed automatic gearbox. It\u2019s a GPS-based setup that\u2019s linked to the company\u2019s Satellite Aided Transmission system, which uses GPS data to preselect ratios for upcoming road conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce has unveiled the one-off Black Badge Ghost Tourist Trophy edition on the Isle of Man, celebrating 120&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20731],"tags":[27500,1238],"class_list":["post-56144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rolls-royce","tag-ghost","tag-rolls-royce"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116692467583800853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}