The Rolls-Royce Spectre is a huge statement, in every sense. Though it's still being fine-tuned, every indication in our two-hour test drive points to a new benchmark in the world of electric cars.
Rolls’s modular aluminum spaceframe chassis is wrapped in body panels of meticulously finessed surfaces, including a so-called waft line. Huge 23-inch wheels are needed to keep everything in proportion. The tapered tail helps the Spectre to a low 0.25 drag coefficient, aerodynamic efficiency a significant factor in the EV world. The grille is the widest ever seen on a Rolls, its configuration again aimed at reducing drag rather than performing the usual cooling function.
WIRED has joined a late-phase hot-weather testing program in South Africa, so the car I’m driving is a preproduction prototype—one that’s only 65 percent there, according to my codriver, project leader Joerg Wunder. It feels a lot closer to finished from the driver’s seat, but that’s to contend without Rolls-Royce’s famously fastidious development processes.
But they also have to arrive at a Rolls-appropriate balance: Absolute silence isn’t healthy for humans. “It can also be a safety issue,” Wunder says. “You need a certain amount of noise to enable the driver to place the car properly on the road, and to know what to do on the approach to a corner. Noise helps orient the driver.”
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