- Rolls-Royce hints at a new drop-top model arriving April 14.
- The teaser silhouette looks a lot like a coach-built Droptail of sorts.
- An electric Spectre-based convertible could finally be on the way.
Rolls-Royce is no stranger to intrigue, and tomorrow it’ll show the world a new project it’s been working on. Before that happens, it dropped a few teasers to hint at what we can expect. If the silhouette is accurate, what we’re seeing is very likely a new drop-top with a stratospheric price tag.
The image, shared on social media, shows a long-hooded, low-slung convertible with a steeply raked windshield and a short rear deck. It looks more dramatic and exotic than the old Dawn ever did, and the proportions immediately bring to mind the wildly expensive coachbuilt Droptail and Boat Tail projects.
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The accompanying quote from Sir Henry Royce doesn’t exactly lower expectations either: “Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, create it.”The Supercar Blog spotted the teaser first and suggested that it might be a Spectre convertible. While anything is possible, overlaying the Spectre atop this teaser doesn’t seem to line up super well.
Both ends appear to have a different design from the Spectre itself. The back especially looks like a Droptail. That said, Rolls-Royce has already confirmed that the first model in its new Coachbuild Collection, which debuts this month, will be fully electric. To that end, it’s highly likely that the two cars share a lot of architecture, and perhaps, Rolls-Royce will thus call it the Spectre Drophead.
If that happens, it would mark the return of an open-top Rolls-Royce for the first time since the Rolls-Royce Dawn bowed out in 2023. It would also be the brand’s first electric convertible, pairing silent EV propulsion with the sort of roof-down wafting that suits a Rolls better than almost any other kind of car.
Rolls-Royce’s recent coachbuilt specials haven’t merely been expensive, they’ve been stratospheric. The Droptail reportedly cost more than $30 million, and only four were built. So if you were hoping for a conventional production convertible to slot beneath the Spectre, you may want to keep your expectations in check.
We’ll know for sure tomorrow. Until then, Rolls-Royce has succeeded in doing exactly what it wanted: making everyone wonder what on earth is hiding under that sheet.
