The Rolls-Royce Spectre is the luxury brand’s first fully electric car, featuring stunning design elements and advanced technology. The starting price of the 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre in the United States is approximately $420,000, with an additional $2,750 for destination and handling. However, most buyers tend to customize their vehicles significantly, leading to an average final price between $500,000 and $550,000. The Spectre is Rolls-Royce’s first all-electric model, showcasing luxury and advanced technology
The Rolls-Royce Spectre. This is a ridiculously expensive, fully electric, gigantic luxury sedan. It’s crazy. It doesn’t make any sense. But at the same time, actually, it does make a lot of sense. It makes perfect sense. So you’re going to have to hear me out with this one. So yeah, if we’re just talking about the surface here, this thing is wild. It’s a giant luxury sedan, or I guess technically, it’s a coupe because… (birds cawing) All right, I’m going to need y’all to… (birds cawing)
I need y’all to chill. It’s a coupe because it has two doors, but it also has four seats, with 577 horsepower and 600-plus pound-feet of torque. The thing weighs nearly 7,000 pounds, nearly as much as the Rivian R1T, but it also goes from zero to 60 in the low fours. It has a ton of power in a straight line, and it gets about 260 miles of range on a full charge. But the thing is, and you probably already see where this is going, you’ve heard me talk about luxury sedans before. What more perfect vehicle could there be to go electric?
If I want a luxury sedan, what do I want? I want it to be big, smooth, quiet, and have lots of space. And it’s probably going to be heavy and expensive, but that comes with the territory. This would be the quietest, smoothest, softest, most spacious Rolls-Royce ever built. Rolls-Royce knows that too. They have promised that their entire lineup will be electric by 2030. So I feel like I was right. They’re starting with this one. This Spectre essentially has a BMW i7 battery and motors underneath, but with the custom suspension
and Rolls-Royce up top, and it’s $500,000, and I’ll get to the price in a minute. But even with as much as we have going on with this car, there is a pretty constant theme throughout the whole car for me pretty clearly. And that is soft. This is the softest car that you can buy; everything about it, from the suspension, which I’ll talk about in a second, to the way it drives, the super-soft steering, the seats you sit in, the super-soft leather and materials inside, and the floor mats are incredibly soft, lambswool.
But even things like the acceleration and deceleration are mapped to the pedal to be super smooth and soft. Just the whole thing is super soft. So let’s get to the inside of this Rolls-Royce because it’s a Rolls-Royce, and where else would you want to be? But also because it’s freezing outside. I have to start with this. You’ve seen Rolls-Royces before, right? The door opens from the front here, and yeah, okay, we’ve seen this before. Let’s get in, put our foot on the brake, and as soon as I put my foot on the brake,
this door will close itself (door clicking) softly. So this is a pretty iconic view just because you can’t really see it when it’s bright like this, but there are stars above me right now in the headliner. The first thing you notice getting into this car is the great, high-quality materials, which are also very soft. I’m sitting in a very, very soft leather seat. But even look at this stuff. (clinking sound) This turns so smoothly and so softly. And if you want to stop the airflow, you just push that.
That’s sick. The way all the HVAC controls are set up, you can change the temperature of the top and bottom just by doing that. I want it to be warm, so I’m over here. You can set the airflow to be super high or super soft. And then under the wood trim and everything, I don’t know if you can appreciate this, but this carpeting down here looks kind of messy, but this is the softest carpet I’ve ever seen in a car. Allegedly, it’s lambswool. At least that’s what it says on the option sheet, but that is soft.
But really, truly, the special thing to me about this car is actually driving it, which you might not think about for a gigantic Rolls-Royce like this. But there are three things. One, the suspension is unbelievably soft. They actually have a feature; it’s a special customized suspension from Rolls-Royce. It’s called the Planar Suspension system. Basically, it decouples the anti-roll bars when driving in a straight line, so each wheel acts independently. So when you’re driving in a straight line and one of the wheels hits a pothole,
- 🚗 Luxury Redefined: The Spectre combines luxury with electric performance, making it a standout in its class.
- ⚡ Powerful Performance: With 577 horsepower and 600+ lb-ft of torque, it accelerates from 0-60 in the low fours.
- 🌌 Unmatched Quietness: The cabin is incredibly quiet, thanks to extensive soundproofing materials and double-pane glass.
- 🛋️ Supreme Comfort: Features soft leather seats and plush lambswool carpets, creating a serene driving experience.
- 📱 Advanced Tech: Equipped with a user-friendly interface, wireless CarPlay, and a unique Drive Recorder for safety.
- 💰 High Price Tag: Starting at $420,000, it can reach over $540,000 with options, showcasing extreme luxury.
- ☔ Iconic Umbrella: Comes with a signature Rolls-Royce umbrella, combining practicality with opulence.
