Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has unveiled Black Badge Spectre — the marque’s alter ego, amplified. In addition to bold exterior finishes, vivid interior details, and innovative opportunities for Bespoke, Black Badge Spectre offers performance enthusiasts a record 659 horsepower and a massive 792 pound-feet of torque.
This makes Black Badge Spectre the most powerful Rolls-Royce in history.
In every way, Black Badge Spectre is Rolls-Royce at its most potent — which perfectly captures the spirit of the bold individuals it has been created for. Black Badge clients are unique within Rolls-Royce. These rule-breakers built success by fearlessly rejecting conventions and committing to a vision that is entirely their own.
The decision to craft such a powerful motor car was driven by the expectations of the marque’s Black Badge clients. Their rigorous demands required a formidable engineering response, built on Rolls-Royce’s profound understanding of what a Black Badge should be: effortlessly intense, immediate, and precise.
HARNESSING FORMIDABLE POWER
To ensure this philosophy accurately reflected how clients use their motor cars in the field, a group of Rolls-Royce owners granted engineers access to their anonymized driving data, allowing drivetrain specialists to quantitatively analyze their driving behavior across hundreds of thousands of collective miles. This revealed that clients exploited maximum power in short pulses more than over extended periods. This insight provided powerful validation of the marque’s approach, perfectly matching the dramatic, intense character of the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever created—meticulously developed in the image of this bold client group.
For Black Badge Spectre, the concept of formidable bursts of power is taken to an extreme with two powertrain innovations.
The first innovation is a unique Infinity Mode, a tribute to the infinity symbol used to signify a Black Badge Rolls-Royce.
Unlocked by pressing the Infinity ∞ button on the steering wheel, the full 659 horsepower is made available, providing a more direct throttle response to the driver. Once this mode is activated, the dials become more vibrant to match the change in the motor car’s character.
The second innovation is Spirited Mode.
Spirited Mode allows the driver to experience a burst of intense, instantaneous acceleration. The driver engages this function by fully depressing the brake and accelerator pedal at the same time, waiting for a haptic and visual response signaling the car is ready, before fully releasing the brake. This temporarily amplifies the torque output to 792 pound-feet, unleashing a surge of force and propelling the motor car from 0-60 mph in just 4.1 seconds.
These new power features have historical precedent. In aircraft powered by the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, including the Supermarine Spitfire, pilots could obtain a burst of power by pushing a switch on the throttle quadrant.
CHASSIS ENGINEERING
Rolls-Royce chassis specialists have introduced changes to inspire clients to wield the unprecedented power of Black Badge Spectre with confidence, For example, the steering weight is increased; roll stabilization is adjusted to create more feedback from steering inputs and reduce body-roll during cornering; and enhanced dampers also increase body control, reducing ‘squatting’ in acceleration or deceleration.
These revisions perfectly balance an enhanced sense of engagement with the effortless operation and famed Magic Carpet Ride associated with Rolls-Royce motor cars.
VIVID ILLUMINATIONS OF LIGHT AND COLOR
Furthering its commitment to advanced, contemporary craftsmanship, Rolls-Royce developed a unique feature that enhances and intensifies Black Badge Spectre’s Illuminated Pantheon Grille.
DRAMATIC BY DESIGN
Black Badge Spectre is a motor car born of fearless expression and focus, meticulously crafted in the image of the daring individuals it was made to serve. Its landmark power output, chassis technologies, and expansive potential for Bespoke open a vivid new chapter in the highly successful stories of Black Badge – the formidable alter ego of Rolls-Royce.
