Usually automakers try to conserve weight when making electric cars to make up for all the mass the batteries themselves add. The Spectre’s total weight of 6,659 pounds - about 600 pounds more than a Cullinan SUV - includes more than 1,500 pound of sound-deadening insulation to ensure the ideal Rolls-Royce level of quiet. There will be screens, but their use will be more understated, he said. While many electric cars have extremely large touch screens and rely on them for many internal controls, the Spectre will rely more on physical controls, Müller-Ötvös said. Last year, the brand unveiled a convertible called the Boat Tail, of which only three were built at an estimated price of $25 million each. The car’s overall tapered shape was influenced by yachts, according to Rolls-Royce, a theme similar to that of another recent Rolls-Royce that may be the most expensive car ever made. Four-wheel steering should help the big car feel more nimble in tight corners. It’s also about 2.5 inches longer than a Cadillac Escalade SUV, and slightly wider. (In four-door Rolls-Royce models, only the back doors open this way.) Because of its size and roominess, Roll-Royce calls the Spectre a “super coupé.” It’s about six inches longer and five inches wider than the last Rolls-Royce coupé, the Wraith, which went out of production earlier this year.
In traditional Rolls-Royce fashion, the Spectre’s two doors are hinged in the back and open rearward. This follows the strategy of Rolls-Royce’s parent company, BMW, which also relies on flexible engineering that can be used to build both gasoline and electric cars. The Spectre shares its basic underlying structure with Rolls-Royce’s gas-powered models: the Phantom and Ghost sedans and the Cullinan SUV. The Silver Ghost, which first went into production in 1906, is regarded as the car that established Rolls-Royce’s reputation as a pinnacle of automotive quality. The starlit ceiling effect that is an option on other Rolls-Royces is extended to the door liners in the Spectre. “So, we want to make sure that this car is really right and spot on and is a proper, perfect Rolls Royce.”
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The “Spectre is for us, as important as Silver Ghost might have been many, many years ago and it is the entry into a new era for the brand going full electric by 2030,” Rolls-Royce chief executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös said in an interview with CNN Business. That’s fairly sleek, but just in the ballpark among modern electric cars.Įven an electric Rolls-Royce could hardly go without the grille, though, since the upright, tombstone-shaped slab of metal slats is among the most genuinely iconic in the industry. Still, the Spectre is the most aerodynamic Rolls-Royce yet, according to the company, which claims the car has a drag coefficient of 0.25. From Rolls-RoyceĪlso, despite not needing nearly as much air as Rolls-Royce’s V12-powered cars, the Spectre will have the widest grille ever seen on a Rolls-Royce model. Rolls-Royce calls the Spectre a "Super Coupé" because of its large size.
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