All New Electric Rolls Royce at a Price that Everyone Can Afford (Not Really)
Ok, so that’s a total lie, but think about all the money Central Jersey will save on gas when we go green! Rolls Royce unveils its new EV Spectre for a mere four hundred thirteen thousand dollars ($413K). I know that sounds like a lot, but if you finance it for five years at zero per cent interest it’s only about six thousand nine hundred bucks ($6,900) a month.
If you’re in the market for an electric car, maybe you’re not in this market. ABC News calls it the world’s first “ultra luxury electric super coupe,” and points out, Spectre is far less expensive than the world’s most expensive electric auto, the $2.4 million Rimac Nevera hypercar. And while it’s no slouch doing 0-60 MPH, it’s not the fastest, either.
Also, the Spectre‘s range is just 260 miles on a full charge, far shorter than the $154,000 Lucid Air Grand Touring, which can travel 516 miles before you need to plug it in. However, unlike those cars, the Spectre is a Rolls Royce, and that’s the point.
While you may be scrimping to fill your tank or your belly nowadays, there are those for whom money is no object, and they’ve always been Rolls’ bread and butter. “Demand has been incredible,” Martin Fritsches, president and CEO of Rolls Royce Motor Cars America, told ABC News. “We have already seen hundreds of our clients visit the Bespoke design studios in Goodwood to start configuring their Spectre commission.”
A Rolls-Royce Spectre, their first fully electric car, is displayed during an unveiling at the company’s Goodwood headquarters near Chichester, southwest England, on October 17, 2022. – Spectre heralds the beginning of an all-electric era for Rolls-Royce. In exhaustive testing, Spectre is being subjected to a journey of more than 2,500,000 kms, simulating more than 400 years of use for a Rolls-Royce. Preliminary data from WLTP testing shows that Spectre will have an all-electric range of 320 miles/520 kms. (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP) (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)
The “6,559-pound coupe has a 4.4 second 0-60 time, boasts 577 horsepower, and, as you’d expect, all the usual refinements from the luxe automaker.”
Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds, tells ABC News, “There will be a lot of hand-raisers and it will be sold out for years. The price of these vehicles has no meaning to customers. Rolls Royce operates on a different level than anyone else…it has guaranteed sales.”
In fact, in 2021, Rolls-Royce delivered a record 5,586 vehicles to clients around the world, a 49% increase from 2020.
Here’s some good news, the base model is equipped with air conditioning, windshield wipers and a radio.
