Rolls-Royce Hyperion

The Rolls-Royce Hyperion is a one-off car that the Italian design house Pininfarina built for the collector Roland Hall on the underpinnings of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe. Pininfarina presented it at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in August 2008, after work that began in the autumn of 2007. Hall wanted a car that recalled the sumptuous cars of the 1930s, and the studio moved the driving position back 400 mm, took out the rear seats and gave the car a carbon-fibre body, new lamps, a folding hood under a wood-lined cover and two storage compartments ahead of the windscreen. Its doors are solid wood, made by craftsmen who build parts for luxury boats. The name comes from one of the Titans of Greek mythology. The car was dedicated to Andrea Pininfarina, who died while the press release was being prepared. Later reports say it was offered for sale in 2009 and later moved to the United Arab Emirates.