Rolls Royce

Century aims at offering a fully bespoke, "One of One" experience to its customers, sitting above Lexus as Toyota’s ultra-luxury spin-off. First out of the gate is a sultry new coupe model to challenge the likes of Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

Rolls-Royce is ditching diesel for methanol with its new maritime engine, described as the world's first high-speed marine engine in its performance class to operate exclusively on pure wood alcohol for a potentially CO₂-neutral drivetrain.

This week the 10th annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award was presented, an unsanctioned concours award that has captured the world's attention and been embraced into its culture, unifying an industry and redefining the winners.

A major player in aerospace innovation has bitten the dust. Reaction Engines, a developer of hypersonic engine technology since 1989, has gone into administration and its closure is having an impact on the hypersonic weapons program of Britain and others.

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the release of the Bond thriller Goldfinger, Rolls-Royce has built a one-off Phantom Extended that is a modern take on the 1937 Phantom III Sedanca de Ville that the eponymous villain built out of smuggled gold.

This fire-breathing 27-liter 1,800-horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine famously powered the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang, Lancaster and Mosquito WW2 aircraft. It's been mounted on a trailer and really is a sight to behold and feel.

Rolls-Royce has received an additional £4.8 million (US$6.2 million) in funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) to develop key technology for a nuclear micro-reactor that could one day power lunar bases and spacecraft propulsion.

Aiming to make armored vehicles stealthier, Rolls-Royce is using this year's Eurosatory defense trade fair to debut a new concept hybrid diesel engine that not only makes tanks and such more efficient, but easier to hide.

Rolls-Royce gave us a glimpse of the nuclear future of next-generation spacecraft and Moon bases when it unveiled a mock-up of its Space Micro-Reactor Concept Model at the UK Space Conference in Belfast, which ran between November 21 to 31, 2023.

Rolls-Royce has taken a major green step, announcing that not only has its giant UltraFan demo jet engine been run at full power on 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), but tests have proven all its current civilian engines are compatible with 100% SAF.

Under a UK Space Agency contract, Bangor University in Wales is developing a new poppy-seed-sized nuclear fuel for the Rolls-Royce micro reactors that will power future crewed lunar outposts by 2030.

Rolls-Royce has completed the first ground tests on its massive UltraFan engine, claiming it's at least 10% more efficient than any other large aero engine in service today. This carbon/titanium beauty will roll out on airliners in the 2030s.