Rolls-Royce

Phantom weighs 2,560 kg in standard wheelbase and 2,610 kg extended. Cullinan is 2,660 kg, and Spectre is heavier again. Those figures sit at or above the per-position allowance on many multi-car decks, so a Rolls-Royce is planned as a single-vehicle load or given a lower deck position with axle weights calculated rather than estimated.

The rear coach doors are rear-hinged and power-operated, and part-opened they add the better part of a meter to the car's 2-meter width — an arc no enclosed trailer can accommodate. No door is opened inside the trailer. The driver enters and exits with the car outside, and the car is then winched into final position with everything closed.

Self-levelling air suspension complicates securement. Cullinan drops 40 mm when a door is opened and again in its off-road setting, and every car on air settles over the hours that follow. Straps are tensioned only after the car has been keyed off long enough to stabilise, then rechecked at the first stop and again before unloading — a car strapped at raised height arrives slack.

The hand-painted coachline runs the length of the flank in a single continuous stroke, roughly five meters, six on the extended wheelbase. It cannot be touched in; contact anywhere along that line means the panel goes back to Goodwood. No strap is routed across the flanks and nothing rests against the coachwork. Securement is over the wheels with soft nets or basket straps around the tire — no chains, no attachment to control arms, no metal against the aluminum spaceframe. The Spirit of Ecstasy travels retracted.