The Roll Royce Phantom Coupe ended production in 2017 in sync with the ending of the Phantom VII sedan. Driving a Rolls Royce is not too dissimilar to driving a mid-sized SUV. They are big, beefy, luxurious, and fast. Everything thing feels luxurious and even some of the plastic switch-gear, which by any other standard is simply plastic, even the god-dam plastic feels luxurious. But everything comes to an end and by the time the V12 powered Rolls Royce Phantom Coupe was discontinued it had been on a near 10-year production run, interrupted by periodic updates.

The ending of the Phantom VII sedan was immediately followed by the launch of the Phantom VIII. The next-generation Phantom Coupe was notable by its absence. Traditionally the Coupe arrives around three to four years later. And it seems as though Rolls Royce are taking their sweet merry time again. Somehow the TaycanEVForum.com has managed to get their hands on a Rolls Royce Phantom Coupe intellectual filing from a Brazilian patent office.

The filing reveals elementary 3D renderings of the new Phantom Coupe. Or is it? Nevertheless, the filing in Brazil claims priority to an earlier filing in Germany, where the design was embargoed in Germany’s patent database. The new coupe shares design elements with the Phantom and is likely a one-off coupe model possibly intended for the postponed Concorso d’Eleganza.