Rolls-Royce Boat Tail

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]

Rolls-Royce Boat Tail
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)
Dimensions
Wheelbase	3,321 mm (130.7 in)
Length	5,760 mm (226.8 in)
Width	2,032 mm (80.0 in)

History

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]

Design

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]

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