Everyone seems to be at it these days – Volkswagen, Toyota, Porsche, BMW, Nissan, the list goes on and on.
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“Dubai is home to a few of the world’s most revered fairways and tournaments including the DP World Tour Championship and Omega Desert Classic – and it is now home to the Rolls-Royce Ghost Golf Edition, the ideal auto to complement the sport”. That notice isn’t for one model, mind you – the recall is for one single, solitary vehicle (albeit one that costs about as much as 10 ordinary compact cars).
BMW of North America, parent company of Rolls-Royce, filed a notice with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announcing a recall of a 2015 Ghost, a auto with a base price of $250,000. Nevertheless, there’s one carmaker that seems to use the opposite approach and we’re talking about Rolls-Royce here.
To solve this potential hazard, a Rolls-Royce dealer in United States will soon replace both the driver- and front passenger-side thorax airbag modules.
The affected auto reportedly had left its factory in East Sussex in January past year, but its North American owner hadn’t yet taken delivery of it.
The issue “was due to the incorrect labelling on one of the airbags”, a Rolls spokesman told the FT.
Rolls officially unveiled the Ghost back in 2009, with the current model boasting a meaty 6.6-litre twin-turbo V12 engine and automatic gearbox that can shoot it from 0-62mph in just 4.9 seconds.
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The entry-level auto has an electronically-limited top speed of 155mph, which is probably why you need airbags that work…
