The Most Expensive NEW Car In The World! £20 Million Rolls Royce Boat Tail

so this articulates itself does it yeah, yeah, yeah, so if I just press this, okay, oh, okay, here we are now. The only thing about these good days is that this is unfolding in real time and I'm yet to see, oh my goodness. This car is huge, where do you start? You can know the

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of the Rolls-Royce ship, that's why it is called the

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of the ship. Yes, and it will all become clear as we go through the car, but it is a modern interpretation of the historic ship. tail eh, body style, I mean, it's literally a road yacht, right?

It is certainly something of an article. It's amazing how long you've been working on this. Four years have passed since the first conversations with customers. Let's say it's okay, I mean. You know the brand very, very well and we are proud to support a commission model, meaning the end result is very much driven by the customer in terms of definition and we don't necessarily always know where it's going. Take us and in this case we have come to yes, this is the conclusion of four years of work and four years of, I have to say, fantastic healing with some of your wonderful clients, you know, this started at a similar time to sweating . queue or emerged from that project um it was, let's say, weepale in some ways I think it worked al

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as a catalyst in the sense that umweepail was also equally born from this notion that we work with a commission model um but I think About the revelation of weepail, everyone al

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understood a new high water mark in terms of where potential progress can be made as well and I think it's fair to say that it stimulated a level of imagination within our client base and we like to think that all of our clients are extraordinary, but of somehow within that group there are people who are looking for a lot more than just the cars that we produce and looking for that opportunity to curate and commission um and that was really the starting point for the preliminary discussions and the preliminary designs. that led us in the direction of this wonderful automobile, how big is this thing?

It's just over 5.7 metres, so as I mentioned, it's a bit generous, but hopefully, as you'll recognize, it's something that we really worked on, is that it's really the proportion and the scale that speaks, you know, that's where you get this kind of sense of impact and almost a demonstration of the kind of presence of the concept, but the details, particularly the surface treatment, is very reduced, it is combined again, it is simplified and we are very aware, especially in this space, that you know cars are almost defined by this metric of more is more, you know, it's more differentiation, it's kind of hyper-characterization, whereas we really wanted to exercise almost a new level of restraint and you can I just see the cleanliness. of the surfaces, the purity of the lines and also the fidelity of the form.

I mean, surprisingly, the car is made of sheet aluminum, it's shaped like a hammer, which allows us to do incredible things, you know, things that normally we would never be allowed to do. achieved through industrialized techniques so you can see the overall clarity of the line and surface and the precision is incredibly smooth, isn't it? It's really incredibly sad. Unfortunately, a lot of modern design is riddled with almost superfluous details and we really wanted to break away from that and in fact I think you sit in front of the most progressive element of the overall concept and that is, of course, the treatment of our iconic pantheon grille.

It is the first time that there is this type of application trophy. applied to the front of the car, it is actually deconstructed into its component elements to inform not only the structure but also the visual representation at the front of the car and the contrasting color of the water falling beautifully into the space of the grille and even In the atrium of our pantheon grill it is somewhat softened to reduce formality. We want the car to be an owner driver concept and I think it's the grille, especially the grille treatment, that really demonstrates that in a very clear way when the customer comes to you with that, why do you start with this?

Because it seems I'm right and I think everything about this is custom made from scratch, so this is not the shared chassis or anything like that, from which the chassis is derived. our aluminum architecture and of course, as you can see from the scale, it has many similarities with the ghost lineage and there are some components, particularly in the interior, that are obviously recognizable for good reason in the main portfolio, but the La Exterior shape, as you can see here, is completely unique and every body panel and much of the intricacy that we'll look at, especially at the rear, has been designed and developed exclusively for this three-car only concept, which It's You know, really, really amazing.

I guess, apart from the black badge, I don't necessarily associate carbon fiber with Rolls-Royce to see this huge section here that is basically forged in carbon. It's impressive, but for very good reasons, you know it really is. for its structural rigidity, particularly in this rear area, it actually defines this entire upper structure of the rear of the car and also provides the basis for some of these complex movements in the saddlebag, we describe this area as almost the rear accommodation area and There is also a lovely link to the clients' personalities in that we were very fortunate during the development process to spend a lot of time in their company and they were the most generous hosts.

You know, they were just wonderful. wonderful people to spend time with and we really felt that those spirits would somehow live in the car and we almost always thought for me at least of Rolls Royce in terms of its sensitivity and I think it's a typically British quality that is almost there to serve you, you know it's there to very respectfully and very diligently meet the requirements of its owner and we wanted the car to almost house that here in the back with such subtle touches and again credit to the phenomenal engineers that we work with. where it's not just a utilitarian provision, this is actually offered to you, so the butterfly mechanism, the lids that rotate towards the centerline, the fact that the saddlebags create this tilt, so they rotate up to a 15 degree angle, that subtle difference like it's kind of like offering itself to you and even these beautiful picnic tables, you know, they swivel to move from this kind of recessed fit again, that's absolutely beautiful, that's not what it really is and It's a beautiful thing to wear, you know? lovely wait and again just a real display of ingenuity.

What's quite surprising is its super simple overall profile and as soon as you start looking at it, the amount of detail it contains is insane. Am I seeing blue fabric in this? you are yes, yes It is a technical fabric, so it has a contrasting blue fiber that runs through the carbon fabric itself. Actually, yes, and what's more, we also extend it to these beautiful stools, which again we created from scratch. I just noticed that these are carbon stools. If I had known that, I would have taken a few steps back before wandering around the car yeah, yeah, no, I mean training as a car designer, I never thought I'd find myself writing a stool, um, but it's amazing and here we work. with an Italian furniture maker to create this unique interlocking shell design to create this slim package that allows you to store it on the side and underneath this twist on the carbon is impressive and the little details not sure if the camera can see it but just a little, I mean, everything feels massive and beautiful, you know, it's really beautiful, something beautiful, the most surprising thing for me with this project is that it exists, you know, in these times with general consumption.

The trends we experience are not only a brand, but also for customers to impart so much patience, so much trust and so much encouragement for us to create something extraordinary, but so that we have the freedom to design the car we want. I think it projects the modernity of the brand that you know and really moves it forward. It is not a retrospective fulfillment of creating something unique. It's really about progress and you could describe it almost as modern sponsorship. You know, it's actually about ordering the next chapter. this great brand and then, yeah, when your gaze goes inside, you can see again on the outside this kind of reduced backrest feel that really allows the beauty of the materials to tell the story, even the cabin fascia is relatively simplified, all the technology that We could disguise and eliminate the distraction that they've put behind, you know, beautiful surfaces and then as a centerpiece, there's a custom-made watch as soon as they pass me by that watch.

Yes, the detail behind that is almost as extraordinary as the car itself, but. Well, the client is of course a big watch fan and knows about individually commissioned watches and wanted to create something unique for this car to bring together in his mind the two passions of his, Rolls Royce and timekeeping. He knows watchmaking as a discipline. and we worked with bouvez, the swiss watch manufacturer, to complete in our mind the first movement applied directly to a car, so that it is embedded in it instead of being removable, it is actually removable, there are three examples of this. produced how individual each one is, each one has a unique story, so yes, the only similarity between the three cars is the body style, so we wanted to create almost what could be described as a kind of critical mass of More than an exception in the

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tail body style, you really almost qualify it as a modern interpretation and that's really where the similarity ends, so all the details, the materiality, the colors, the quote on the back vary considerably.

From one car to another, okay, but as you see here, standing in the back, there is a wonderful symmetry, so on this side there are provisions for eating even things like when I open here, you can see um christopher's cutlery, so we worked with christoph in Paris to create a unique cutlery set, it is inscribed with the name of the car here and also the tableware itself and then you can see the refrigerated food containers here inside the non-refrigerated food containers here salt mills and pepper, not shakers, as we were reminded when we made it all the way through.

I made that mistake with one of the customers and they described to me when you've ever been to a Michelin star restaurant and used the stirrers. Yes, I noticed it and I think this is really a marvel to me because of the ingenuity and the fascination and the engineering of it. I came into this purely informed by the notion of hosting, you know that well, yeah, nothing more, it's not about performance, it's not about you know any of these other typical engineering achievement qualifications, it's actually a beautiful, beautiful thing. to use and this is talking about feasibility. of the car, this has all been tested at speed, so believe it or not, this with all its provisions has been at Millbrook several times, actually yes, so you sent this to Mel Brook fully configured in the back, yes, just to make I'm sure there were no noise vibrations and they even had to make some subtle adjustments to some of these settings and then yeah, speaking of an achievement of sorts, the Paris and not just any umbrella, one that we designed and developed from the ground up, specifically. for this application it unfolds out of this sleeve in the center here you have that lid again you can see just the quality of workmanship has there been any improvement to the engine or was it taken from an existing family translated to this absolutely yes so it is from ghost, that's the only ingredient that hasn't changed, um, because you know that's not what the car is known for and also let's be honest, the customer was extremely happy with the way he'll say it, really when you build a car like this with Rolls-Royce, the customer is to become part of the company's history, it's such an important car, absolutely to add, you know, it's incredible, absolutely not, I mean, I think commissioning a coach-building Rolls Royce you really mark your place almost in the legacy of the brand and it's interesting.

We often reflect in the study that when we talk about historic Rolls Royces, we often talk more about the personalities of the owners and you know their commission options more than we do about the cars and compare it to and perhaps be unbiased. if it's a sports car manufacturer and so on, it's more about the achievements of the car, yeah, um, and I think it's an interesting part of the Rolls Royce story that kind of makes us unique.