REVIEW: mtisshaw heads to South Africa to drive a very special, early edition of the all-new, all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre ⚡
. This makes much of its hardware familiar, including the clever active roll bars, adaptive dampers, Planar suspension, four-wheel steering and air springs, but the body is all new, as is, of course, the drivetrain and the electric architecture .The drivetrain features electric motors front and rear for four-wheel drive that draws power from what’s described as the “largest battery pack in theGroup”, at around 106kWh.
But he’s far more relaxed in the front passenger seat when we join him in his fourwheeled of office, the vast 1.5-metre rear-hinged door, the largest yet fitted to a Rolls-Royce, having automatically opened for us. Everything in this cabin is very familiar from other recent Rolls-Royces, and the words of Müller-Ötvös are ringing in my ears: “It’s a Rolls-Royce. There are no gimmicks for the sake of gimmicks, like putting a huge screen inside.
Don’t expect BMW’s Theatre Screen rear-seat entertainment package to find its way into a Rolls-Royce, however, because it would prevent the starlight headliner being offered. “Our customers have screens at home, and this is their room without a screen,” says Ayoubi. Rolls-Royce has developed an artificial sound that can be turned on or off for those inside the car , but it’s subtle. Sound levels in the cabin are still to be tuned to get the ‘right kind’ of silence. “You can achieve absolute silence, and this is luxury,” says Ayoubi. “We’ve reached such a low level of silence that it can become too quiet, too uncomfortable, so you need an equaliser to connect you to the outside world. It could even become a safety issue. You need some coupling.
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