Rolls-Royce has unveiled another luxury car produced by its coachbuilding division. Known as the La Rose Noire Droptail, it will be released in four units rumored to cost U.S. $32,000,000 each.
The two-door vehicle is finished in the color of the rose flower known as Black Baccara: the petals appear black in the shadow, but take on a pearlescent dark red tint in direct sunlight. The entire car is finished in this color.
Aside from that, the British automaker came up with two new tints specifically for this release, dubbed True Love and Mistery, as well as pioneered a new method of paint application. The team that worked on the La Rose Noire applied a special lacquer to every layer of the main color by hand. Each of the five layers contains a pigment that makes it slightly different from the rest.
The dashboard was trimmed with wood veneer applications comprising 1,070 individual symmetrical parts of different colors and 533 vivid red accents. Only the red elements are actually painted, while the rest retain the original tint of the wood they were made of. Rolls-Royce says it spent a year to come up with a lacquer formula protecting the natural veneer colors from fading. It also spent nine months designing the art panel.
The Droptail features an unusually shaped removable top with a special glass pane built in that can change its transparency. The 22-inch wheels in the arches are likewise new, and the passengers will know to appreciate a champagne box complete with a refrigerator for the bottles and hand-crafted crystal-glass goblets.
According to unconfirmed sources, the La Rose Noire Droptail runs on a purpose-designed chassis composed of aluminum and carbon-fiber parts. It allegedly has the company’s standard 6.75-liter turbo V12 under the hood that produces 600 PS (592 hp / 441 kW) and 840 Nm (620 lb-ft) of torque, taking the car from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) in under five seconds.
