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At the rate it's going, Rolls-Royce will completely ruin its reputation. Fastest Rolls-Royce yet? Trumpeting its 0-to-60-mph time (4.4 seconds)? Boldly proclaiming horsepower and torque when the answer used to be, "It is adequate"? Once the Ghost was launched in 2010, the image of Rolls-Royce as a chauffeur-driven dilettante's car was blown to smithereens. At the time, R-R public affairs boss Richard Carter told us (with tongue firmly in cheek), "Naught to sixty in 4.8 seconds is disturbing. We don't want to be known as sporty. But . . . there you have it."