Astronomy buffs will appreciate the newest Rolls-Royce: the Phantom Tempus. As the always-entertaining Rolls marketing patter has it, Time holds no power over Phantom Tempus. But you still have to change the oil in it.

This Phantom’s interiors sport an update of the popular Starlight Headliner, one of the niftier options Rolls has offered this century; imagine having a small, custom-made planetarium projecting onto the car’s ceiling and you have an idea of the effect of thousands of fiber optics arranged in an overhead star field. Add a pulsar as this Starlight does, and you have some cosmic drama to enhance the poetry.

Other visual delights of this quite magnificent entry in the Rolls design catalog include the exterior paint job in ‘Kairos Blue’. The presentation edifies regarding the type of blue adorning this Phantom: ancient Greek for ‘a single, opportune moment’ translates a la Rolls marketing as an immersive shade of glistening midnight. And, then there’s the new Rolls gallery design which in the Phantom Tempus is called the Frozen Flow of Time.  Other entries in the high-drama bespoke series include the Phantom Iridescent Opulence.

There’s a pleasing element of luxurious, and perhaps cosmological, suspension suggested by the Phantom Tempus, and the way it’s inventively presented is remarkable even for the Rolls-Royce website. Among recent Rolls-Royce special designs/brand enhancements of the last few years, this Phantom is one of the more interesting, an esteemed distinction indeed.