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Automotive News Europe, May, 2003
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Byline: Edmund Chew
The new Rolls-Royce Phantom has a thoroughly German pedigree despite its English super-luxury heritage.
The Phantom was designed in a studio in London's fashionable Bayswater Road. But the engineering project team that put the car together was based 10 minutes away from BMW's FIZ technical development center, in the former BMW Germany sales premises on Heidemannstrasse in Munich.
Development of the Phantom began in autumn 1998 when agreement about the future of the Rolls-Royce brand was reached between BMW and Volkswagen.
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