Rolls-Royce Ghost review: On a spiritual journey in the lap of luxury

Scotland has no shortage of ghost stories.

Any country with so much bloody history and rich folklore is bound to have its fair share of spooky sightings.

While crumbling castles and ancient alleyways claim the lion’s share of reported sightings there are plenty of roads with their own supposedly supernatural stories.

So, with the keys to Rolls-Royce’s latest spookily named offering in our hands, it seemed only fitting to take our Ghost in search of spooks on Scotland’s “most haunted road”.

According to those who record such things, the A75 running between Annan and Carrutherston in Dumfries and Galloway has more reports of ghosts, bogles and other spooky goings-on than any other route in the country. It also happens to pass through the beautiful rolling countryside around the Solway Firth - a fitting place, then, to test the Ghost’s performance.

Our route to the south-west took in the mist-shrouded and suitably satanic Devil’s Beef Tub where the Ghost’s rear-wheel steering made light work of the tight twisting road that winds down the side of the famous gorge towards Moffat.

That all-wheel-steering is central to Rolls-Royce’s ambition for the Ghost to be a car to drive as well as be driven in. Despite its size - all 5.5 metres of it - the Ghost is remarkably easy and enjoyable to drive and doesn’t feel any more unwieldy than a large-ish SUV. The steering is weighted “just so”, so you don’t feel like you’re wrestling more than two tonnes of metal but it’s not so light that you lose all sensation. It’s by no means a sporty car but it feels surprisingly neat and responsive even on the smaller winding roads our route took us along.