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Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024
Carsguide Contributing Journalist Stephen Corby had this to say at the time: Personally, I was very much taken with the looks, and the feels, of the new Rolls-Royce Spectre, which delivers everything you’d expect from this brand, and seems to have lost nothing by switching to electric propulsion. The trick, it seems, in turning your brand into an EV one is to have made your cars silent in the first place.
You can read the full review here.This is what Stephen Corby liked most about this particular version of the Rolls-Royce Spectre: Design, Power delivery, Interior quality
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Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Colours
The Spectre comes in no fewer than 20 colours and shades, including Phoenix Red, Grace White, Seashell, Emarald Green and Peony Pink.
Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Accessories
Top-notch umbrellas hidden in each door are a nice touch.
One of the nifty and unexpected features the Spectre offers is a “Rolls-Royce Sound”, which you can toggle on and off. With the fake noise off, the car is freakishly quiet - apparently during testing they achieved a level of EV silence so incredible that people found it “disturbing” and had to engineer some sound back in - but with it on you get just the most subtle of guttural sounds. Every other company so has gotten fake noise wrong, but Rolls has nailed it with the Spectre; it’s just loud enough, but suitably restrained as well.
You also get the wondrous Starlight Headliner, which uses optic fibre cables to paint the night sky on the roof, complete with shooting stars, and in the Spectre you can now have the stars fitted to the inside of its massive coach doors as well.
Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Interior
If you’re looking for the modern EV style interior, you can forget it, because Rolls says it didn’t want “any of that funky stuff” in the Spectre, so no giant screens in here. Indeed, I switched into a Rolls-Royce Ghost as one stage to be driven somewhere and the interior was almost exactly the same, although the new car gets a more modern fully digital dash.
There’s plenty of room for water bottles and oddment storage and the sense of space for the driver and front passenger is suitably grand, but the rear seats are really for spoilt teenagers rather than Rolls owners. They’re not uncomfortable, at all, but they just feel a bit squeezed, you wouldn’t ask to be chauffeured in a Spectre, clearly it’s a Rolls you’d choose to drive yourself.
Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Boot Space
The boot is wide, deep and long with a volume of 380 litres.
Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Seats
The Spectre is a four-seat coupe and the two rear seats are plushly comfortable but slightly tight on legroom. The front two seats are unfeasibly comfortable and cosseting.
Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Speed
The 0 to 100km/h time is 4.5 seconds, top speed 250km/h.
Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Engine
The Rolls-Royce Spectre has two separately excited synchronous motors, one on each axle. The front motor makes 190kW and 365Nm while they’ve sensibly sent more grunt to the rear, which gets 360kW and 710Nm. The total figures are 430kW and 900Nm
Rolls-Royce Spectre 2024 Range
The official WLTP range for the Spectre is 520km, but Rolls-Royce insists it can do far better in the real world.