A Closer Look At The $28 Million Rolls-Royce Boat Tail Reveals Why It’s Worth Every Penny
Rolls-Royce as a brand defines luxury and sets it a whole class apart. The company has been in existence for over 100 years, and in this time, they have produced some genuinely legendary units. One such example is the 2022 Rolls-Royce Boat Tail, a midsize luxury coach-built grand tourer.
Although this car uses the Wraith platform, it has around 1800 bespoke parts that make the vehicle ultra-premium. Apart from being a work of art, it also has an astronomical price of $28 million, making it one of the world’s most expensive, road-legal cars. Vehicles like a Rolls-Royce Boat Tail are often made in limited production numbers. Still, the company decided to push the envelope by producing just three examples for the entire planet, which justifies the eye-watering price tag.
2022 Boat Tail’s Design Inspiration
The Sweptail was a luxury car unveiled in 2017. The design of the Boat Tail is similar to the Sweptail, and they both are inspired by yachts of the 1920s and 1930s. The car was designed by the company’s specialized coach building division at the Goodwood facility. The art of coach building is something that unifies engineers, craftsmen, and artists to create an entirely new motorcar.
The Boat Tail is the company’s most ambitious project, and the entire coach building process is done in collaboration with its clients. Although the premium car shares most of its underpinnings with Phantom, Rolls-Royce’s flagship series-production sedan, it features a parasol that extends from the rear deck deployed by a mechanical system in an inverted manner like a flower. There will be three versions of the 2022 Boat Tail, and each of the three vehicles will be mainly designed for the owners and their family history.
Rolls-Royce’s Intricate Attention To Detail
The company takes comfort and luxury to the next level by sending a painted panel of the vehicle to the owner’s residence only to inspect how the color would look in different sunlight conditions. The interior is just as beautiful as the exterior, and Rolls-Royce takes care of the minor details by providing men’s and women’s watches manufactured by Bovet Fleurier. What is extraordinary about these watches is that they can be worn as a wristwatch, used as a desk clock, or even as a pocket watch.
The car also had rotating cocktail tables, matching stool seats, a complete set of Christofle tableware, and two fridges in the same color scheme to match the champagne bottles. The care of such intricate details can be taken only by Rolls-Royce. The Boat Tail is technologically so advanced, the Bose sound system in the Boat Tail uses the car’s floor structure as a resonance chamber. Moreover, it includes a Montblanc pen in a hand-crafted case inside the glove box.
2022 Rolls-Royce Boat Tail: A Hand-Built Work of Art
Since the vehicle is entirely hand-built, it took Rolls-Royce nearly a year to finish a model from scratch. Every car is customized to its owner’s taste and liking, and there is no compromise in terms of quality. It is reported that the second of the three Rolls-Royce Boat Tails has been commissioned by a businessman who made his fortune in the pearl business started by his father.
The gentleman owns an extensive collection of classic and modern-day cars, kept in a private museum, and the Boat Tail will now be the latest addition to this collection. Although the car’s design is similar to the previous version, the paint shade is very exclusive and uses pearl tints and rose gold. Besides, it also contains fine gold and bronze-colored aluminum mica flakes embedded in the paint for an added touch of opulance.
The interior is beautifully crafted with cognac and oyster leather and a touch of royal walnut veneer on the dashboard. The gauges and control knobs all feature real mother-of-pearl inlays, and the removable timepiece mounted in the dashboard is made from a piece of pearl supplied by the owner themselves. A picnic set located on the deck features Porcelain glasses and plates with a rose gold finish. The signature butterfly design for the rear deck is carried forward from the previous vehicle.
However, the specialty of this particular example is that even the signature Rolls-Royce hood ornament, the Spirit of Ecstasy is finished in rose gold, something never seen before on a Roller. The large grille upfront is also made out of a single piece of aluminum and has a brushed metal finish. All of this inclusively makes this example of the Boat Tail worth every penny of the $28 million asking price.
Overall, the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail is an ultra-exclusive and expensive car. Rolls-Royce can be defined as an automobile manufacturer producing sheer works of art on wheels. Seeing the vehicle unveiled at Concorso d’Eleganza, Villa d’Este 2022 felt like poetry in motion. The third and final iteration of the Boat Tail is expected to be revealed next year and is by the looks of things, it promises to be the best Rolls-Royce ever made.
