{"id":64583,"date":"2013-02-20T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=64583"},"modified":"2013-02-19T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T20:24:44","slug":"report-rolls-royce-developing-v16-powered-roadster-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2013\/02\/20\/report-rolls-royce-developing-v16-powered-roadster-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rolls-Royce Developing V16-Powered Roadster for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Untitled-46.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Untitled-46.jpg\" alt=\"Report: Rolls-Royce Developing V16-Powered Roadster for 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Untitled-46.jpg 640w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Untitled-46-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Untitled-46-480x280.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While most luxury car manufacturers, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/bmw\/\">BMW<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/mercedes\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> are looking to downsize their engines and even fit them with forced-induction, new reports courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmagazine.co.uk\/Secret-new-cars\/Search-Results\/Spyshots\/Rolls-Royce-V16-roadster-2017-scoop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAR Magazine<\/a> suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/rolls-royce\/\">Rolls-Royce<\/a> is thinking the complete opposite and planning a V16-powered roadster pinned for a debut in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>CAR claims that the new roadster would be a part of Rolls-Royce\u2019s overall plan to expand its line-up, with the V16 monster possibly developing at least 700hp, and despite such a potent engine, the new Rolls-Royce Roadster\u2019s priority would remain being a luxurious, refined and beautifully crafted luxury automobile.<\/p>\n<p>If the 2017 Rolls-Royce Roadster ever sees the light of day, even in concept form, it\u2019s speculated to be a two-seater with a well-insulated soft-top roof and would be built around the new aluminium spaceframe set to debt in the next-wave of Rolls-Royce Phantom\u2019s due out in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most luxury car manufacturers, such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz are looking to downsize their engines and even fit them with forced-induction, new reports courtesy of CAR Magazine suggest that Rolls-Royce is thinking the complete opposite and planning a V16-powered roadster pinned for a debut in 2017. CAR claims that the new roadster would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":64605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,86,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}