
New Delhi: Auction house Bonhams will put under the hammer a rare Rolls Royce Phantom modified for tiger hunting by an Indian maharaja during the days of the British Raj, featuring a mounted machine gun and a cannon, that may fetch up to $ 1 million. The custom-made 1925 Rolls Royce was originally commissioned by Umed Singh II, the maharaja of Kotah in the 1920s at a time when tiger...

11:15 AM, Jul 27, 2011

Melbourne: A London-bound Qantas plane carrying 308 passengers was on Friday forced to return to Bangkok after take-off due to an engine shut down, the latest incident related to a Rolls-Royce engine. The Boeing 747 flight returned to Bangkok on Friday morning after pilots shut down one of four engines on the aircraft due to "an increase in vibration and high temperatures", Australian news agency APP quoted a Qantas spokesman...

09:46 AM, May 20, 2011

This week, 'Overdrive' takes you to the Geneva motor show and also discusses the automobile market post the Budget 2011. ...

02:07 PM, Mar 06, 2011

On this episode of Overdrive, we bring to you the baby of the Rolls Royce-Ghost and much more. ...

06:55 PM, Dec 19, 2010

Melbourne: Superjumbo A380, world's flying wonder has manufacturing defects in its Trent engines that could lead to "catastrophic engine failures" in flight, Australian Flight Safety officials have warned. The officials have recommended that the airlines who are flying the superjumbos that use Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines to carry out more checks as flaws could cause engine failures. As the safety officials pinpointed manufacturing defects in the engines, the country's airline...

03:11 PM, Dec 02, 2010

Overdrive reviews two new cars in the Indian market. ...

07:34 PM, Dec 05, 2009

Rolls-Royce employs 39,000 globally, including around 22,100 in Britain. ...

06:47 PM, Nov 20, 2008

Giving and taking aside, the Bachchans can't complain with two absolutely free imported cars. ...

11:52 PM, Feb 11, 2007

Smitten by the Big B's performance in
Eklavya, Vidhu Vinod Chopra gifted him a Rolls Royce worth Rs 3.5 cr. ...

10:44 PM, Feb 07, 2007