Mansory Carbon Fiber Body kit set for Rolls-Royce Ghost Soft kit

MANSORY Soft Kit for the First-Generation Rolls-Royce Ghost (RR4 / RR5, 2010-2020) — Bolt-On Carbon Without Bonded Fender Flares, Factory Width Retained

The Rolls-Royce Ghost first generation (chassis RR4 2010-2014, RR5 series II facelift 2014-2020) is a saloon written in the language of understatement. Its 6.6-litre BMW N74 V12, four-corner air suspension and 5.4-metre length are designed to disappear from the conversation rather than dominate it, and the type of owner who chooses Ghost rather than Phantom or Wraith tends to feel the same way about visual presence. The Mansory soft kit programme exists for exactly that buyer: it is a complete carbon refinement schedule that deliberately omits the bonded fender flares and bumper replacements of a full Mansory commission, leaving the saloon's factory width and shoulder line entirely intact while still answering the wish for carbon spec and forged wheels. It is, in plain terms, the quietest answer Mansory will sign its name to on a Ghost.

Soft kit as a discretion strategy

A Ghost owner is, by self-selection, someone who wanted the smaller Goodwood saloon rather than the louder ones. Asking that owner to accept bonded arch extensions, a 60-millimetre track increase and a wholly redrawn front fascia is asking them to invert the very reason they chose the car. The soft kit is Mansory's recognition of that. It is positioned not as a budget alternative to the full programme, but as a different aesthetic argument altogether: that the factory silhouette, drawn at Goodwood with great care, is correct, and that carbon should be applied as accent rather than as transformation.

The result is a Ghost that reads as factory at the first glance most observers will give it. The cues that disclose Mansory work — the matt-twill weave on the front splitter, the etched wordmark on the diffuser bezel, the sharper edge on the side rocker — only register on the second look, usually from someone already familiar with the Mansory catalogue. For owners moving in environments where overt modification is socially or commercially counter-productive, that second-look-only register is the entire point.

There is also a commission-spend dimension worth stating openly. A full Mansory build on a Ghost — bonded flares, replacement bumpers, full interior retrim, M9 forged wheels, exhaust — typically falls in a six-figure range comparable to a meaningful share of the donor car's residual value. The soft kit, because it skips bonded panels and the body-shop labour those entail, lands at roughly 35-50 percent of that outlay depending on options selected. That ratio matters: it places the soft kit in a different decision bracket entirely, one many Ghost owners actually reach for.

What 'soft' means dimensionally — and what stays factory

The technical definition of the soft kit is best stated by enumerating what does not change. The track width is unchanged front and rear — there are no bonded arch extensions, no spacer kits supplied with the package, and the wheels stay inside factory arch geometry. The fender geometry itself is untouched: factory front and rear quarter panels remain in place, none are replaced, none are overlaid with arch panels. The ride height is the factory air-suspension reference; the soft kit does not include lowering links and does not require recalibration of the four-corner air system. ADAS sensor positions — the radar behind the lower grille, parking sensors in the bumpers, the camera positions — are preserved because the bumpers are preserved; only bolt-on overlays sit in front of them, and the overlays are designed to keep all sensor apertures clear.

What the soft kit therefore touches is strictly an additive layer: carbon parts that bolt or bond onto factory surfaces in a fully reversible way. A car returned to factory state after a soft-kit phase needs paint correction and re-bonding labour at most, never panel replacement. This reversibility is the second discretion argument: it preserves originality on paper for any future ownership transfer to a buyer who values a documented factory donor.

Carbon parts schedule (bolt-on only)

1. Front lip splitter in pre-preg twill carbon, mounted to the underside of the factory front bumper with the original lower-valance hardware extended; clearance preserves the front parking sensors and radar.
2. Side skirt overlays — left and right rocker panels receive a carbon plate that bonds onto the painted factory rocker, sharpening the lower edge without altering the door cut-line.
3. Rear lip blade below the boot edge, finished to match the front splitter weave direction.
4. Rear diffuser bezel integrating into the factory rear bumper's lower valance, with cut-outs for the factory exhaust tips (no exhaust replacement in the soft kit).
5. Mirror caps — direct replacements for the factory painted mirror housings, in either gloss-twill or satin-twill carbon.
6. Bonnet vent inserts (optional) — small functional vents recessed into the factory bonnet for engine-bay heat extraction; reversible with a replacement bonnet skin if removed.
7. Rear deck spoiler (optional) — a low-profile lip applied to the boot lid, set back from the trailing edge to remain invisible in profile view.
8. B-pillar trim covers (optional) — replaces the gloss-black B-pillar trim with a carbon-finish piece for owners commissioning carbon mirror caps.

Wheel pairing — staying inside factory width

Because the soft kit does not extend the fenders, the wheel-spec rule is straightforward and, for once, restrictive in a useful way: the wheels must stay within OE arch width. The recommended pairing is the Mansory M9 or CS forged design in 22-inch diameter, in the OE-width offset specification rather than the wide-arch offset used on full builds. What changes versus the factory wheel is therefore finish and design — forged construction, lighter unsprung mass, a Mansory-signature spoke pattern, and a custom-finish option (satin bronze, machined-and-polished bicolour, or paint-to-sample to a Bespoke colour code) — but not the diameter-to-arch relationship that defines the car's profile. Tyre sizing follows the OE 22-inch fitment used by the factory option pack, so no clearance work or arch-liner trimming is needed. The full forged catalogue with offsets and finishes is at hodoor.world/collection/forgedwheels.

Markets and ownership corridors

Soft-kit Ghost demand concentrates in three corridors where discretion has a documented social or commercial value: the UK, where the Goodwood factory and a long-established second-owner network favour reversible, originality-preserving work; the UAE, where Dubai and Abu Dhabi owners increasingly request a Ghost specification that reads as private-residence rather than valet-stand; and Switzerland, where Zürich, Geneva and Zug clients consistently choose the quietest version of any Mansory programme on offer. We also commission soft kits for owners in adjacent markets — Germany, Austria, Monaco, Singapore, Hong Kong — but those three corridors describe the typical brief most accurately.

For owners weighing this against the bonded-flare alternative on the same chassis, the side-by-side argument is laid out in our long-form comparison piece Mansory vs Brabus on the Rolls-Royce Ghost, which covers fender treatment, carbon-spec philosophy and ownership outcomes in detail.

To start a soft-kit specification, please write to [email protected] with your VIN, model year and short list of carbon parts, or message us on WhatsApp at +44 7488 818747. We respond inside one working day with a written carbon-parts schedule, wheel-finish proposal and a fixed delivery and installation timeline.

Five questions Ghost owners ask before commissioning

Will my factory body width and arch line stay exactly as the Ghost left Goodwood? Yes — the soft kit adds bolt-on carbon to factory surfaces only. Track width, fender geometry and arch shape are unchanged.

If I sell the car later, can it be returned to fully factory specification? Yes. All soft-kit carbon parts attach via reversible hardware and panel-safe adhesive; a paint-correction pass is the only body work needed for a return to factory state.

How does soft-kit pricing compare to a full Mansory commission? Roughly 35 to 50 percent of full-build outlay depending on which optional carbon parts (bonnet vents, rear deck spoiler, B-pillar trim) are included.

Can the soft kit be specified on a series II facelift Ghost (RR5, 2014-2020), or only the pre-facelift? Both platforms are supported. Soft-kit parts are tooled for both RR4 (2010-2014) and RR5 (2014-2020) bumper geometry; the splitter and diffuser bezel ship in the correct variant once the model year is confirmed.

Do I have to take the M9 or CS forged wheel, or can the soft kit be commissioned without a wheel change? The wheel is independent of the carbon schedule. Many owners commission the soft kit on factory wheels first and add forged wheels in a later phase; either order works.

Where this Rolls Royce Ghost soft kit programme is most ordered today

Most Mansory Rolls Royce Ghost soft kit commissions in 2026 originate from the same set of markets. In Asia, the kit is most often commissioned by collectors based in Hong Kong and mainland China. On the African continent, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa take occasional but consistent Rolls Royce Ghost soft kit commissions. Western European commissions concentrate in Luxembourg and Switzerland, with periodic single-build orders out of Austria. Every Rolls Royce Ghost soft kit kit leaves with tracked, insured logistics and customs documents prepared for the destination.

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