Rolls-Royce Boat Tail | |
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Overview | |
Manufacturer | Rolls-Royce Motor Cars |
Production | 2 of 3, launch and presented on 27 May 2021 [1] [2] |
Model years | 2021, 2022 |
Assembly | Goodwood Plant, West Sussex, England |
Designer | Daniel Koenigs |
Body and chassis | |
Class | Full-size ultra-luxury coach build |
Body style | Cabriolet |
Layout | FR Layout |
Platform | Phantom |
Doors | Suicide doors |
Related | Rolls-Royce Phantom (eighth generation) |
Powertrain | |
Engine | 6.75 N74B68 twin-turbocharged V12 ( petrol) |
The Rolls-Royce Boat Tail is a mid-sized luxury coach built grand tourer car made by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It is the world's most expensive street legal new car, with a speculated price of US$28 million. [3] [4] [5]
BMW, the parent company of Rolls-Royce, trademark protected the Boat Tail Concept with the European Union Intellectual Property Office on 30 May 2018, as well as with the National Institute of Industrial Property in Brazil. [6] [7] [8] [9]
The car was designed by the company's specialised coachbuild division at its Goodwood plant, reinterpreting the 1910s Rolls-Royce Ltd Boat Tail car design. [10] It draws aesthetic inspiration from yachts of the 1920s and 1930s. The car shares its chassis and engine with the Rolls-Royce Phantom; [11] [4] but has 1,813 bespoke parts, [12] including five electronic control units in the rear deck. [1] The cars feature a parasol that extends from the rear deck deployed by a mechanical system in an inverted manner like a flower, [1] rotating cocktail tables with matching stool seats, a complete set of Christofle tableware and two fridges in a colour scheme to match Armand de Brignac champagne bottles. [3] The deck is finished in Caleidolegno veneer and hinges towards the centre in a butterfly shape, at an angle of 67 degrees. [3] [4] [13] [14] [15]
The first car features matching pairs of men's and women's watches manufactured by Bovet Fleurier which include a tiny sculpture of the car in the dial. The watches can be worn as a wristwatch or used as a desk clock or pocket watch, and they can also be placed in a titanium enclosure on the car's dashboard to be used as its clock. The car has a bespoke Bose Corporation sound system which uses the car's floor structure as a resonance chamber. The car includes a Montblanc pen housed in a hand-crafted case inside the glove box. The instrument panel dials feature guilloché decorative work. [11] [14] [16]
Rolls-Royce Boat Tail | |
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Overview | |
Manufacturer | Rolls-Royce Motor Cars |
Production | 2 of 3, launch and presented on 27 May 2021 [1] [2] |
Model years | 2021, 2022 |
Assembly | Goodwood Plant, West Sussex, England |
Designer | Daniel Koenigs |
Body and chassis | |
Class | Full-size ultra-luxury coach build |
Body style | Cabriolet |
Layout | FR Layout |
Platform | Phantom |
Doors | Suicide doors |
Related | Rolls-Royce Phantom (eighth generation) |
Powertrain | |
Engine | 6.75 N74B68 twin-turbocharged V12 ( petrol) |
The Rolls-Royce Boat Tail is a mid-sized luxury coach built grand tourer car made by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It is the world's most expensive street legal new car, with a speculated price of US$28 million. [3] [4] [5]
BMW, the parent company of Rolls-Royce, trademark protected the Boat Tail Concept with the European Union Intellectual Property Office on 30 May 2018, as well as with the National Institute of Industrial Property in Brazil. [6] [7] [8] [9]
The car was designed by the company's specialised coachbuild division at its Goodwood plant, reinterpreting the 1910s Rolls-Royce Ltd Boat Tail car design. [10] It draws aesthetic inspiration from yachts of the 1920s and 1930s. The car shares its chassis and engine with the Rolls-Royce Phantom; [11] [4] but has 1,813 bespoke parts, [12] including five electronic control units in the rear deck. [1] The cars feature a parasol that extends from the rear deck deployed by a mechanical system in an inverted manner like a flower, [1] rotating cocktail tables with matching stool seats, a complete set of Christofle tableware and two fridges in a colour scheme to match Armand de Brignac champagne bottles. [3] The deck is finished in Caleidolegno veneer and hinges towards the centre in a butterfly shape, at an angle of 67 degrees. [3] [4] [13] [14] [15]
The first car features matching pairs of men's and women's watches manufactured by Bovet Fleurier which include a tiny sculpture of the car in the dial. The watches can be worn as a wristwatch or used as a desk clock or pocket watch, and they can also be placed in a titanium enclosure on the car's dashboard to be used as its clock. The car has a bespoke Bose Corporation sound system which uses the car's floor structure as a resonance chamber. The car includes a Montblanc pen housed in a hand-crafted case inside the glove box. The instrument panel dials feature guilloché decorative work. [11] [14] [16]