The Rolls Royce Spectre in grey with an orange and black interior is the first fully electric Rolls Royce in our Orange County fleet, a two-door coupe silent by design rather than by muffling. Grey outside and quiet about it, the cabin does the speaking, hidden until the coach door opens. Book it for a silent evening arrival or a shoot built around its doors.
There is no engine to warm up and no rev counter to watch, only a Power Reserve gauge that now measures electrons instead of torque. Both motors send 664 lb-ft to the road the instant you ask for it, so the Spectre leaves a stop with a shove rather than a build, and the only sound in the cabin is tyre hush. Steering is light and quick, planted through the bends on Ortega Highway despite the car's length, with rear steer trimming the nose into tighter turns than the wheelbase suggests. The regen defaults to one-pedal driving from a stalk button, and the brake pedal feels different in that mode for the first few stops, so give yourself a mile before you trust it.
Grey paint gives this Spectre almost nothing to photograph from a distance on Newport Coast Drive, which is exactly the setup for the reveal inside. Open one of the widest coach doors Rolls Royce currently builds and the orange and black cabin is the entire story, a colour the exterior never hints at. Shoot the exterior at dusk against the coastal haze near Pelican Hill, where grey reads sophisticated rather than plain, then move in tight on the open door for the interior frame. The two photographs do not look like the same car, and that gap between quiet outside and loud inside is what this Spectre sells.
We keep one Spectre, grey with an orange and black interior, so there is no other colour of this model to weigh it against in our fleet. What there is to weigh it against is every other Rolls Royce we run, and the case for this one is simple, it is the only electric car under the badge and the only one that is silent by design rather than by isolation. Book it over a Ghost or a Wraith when the renter specifically wants the electric Rolls Royce experience, not a V12 with the volume turned down. It is also the newest car we keep, and it reads that way the moment the doors open.
This is the Spectre trim in grey over an orange and black interior, all-wheel drive with rear steer, powered by dual electric motors making 577 horsepower and 664 lb-ft of torque with no engine at all. It is a two-door coupe with four seats, the widest coach doors Rolls Royce currently builds, and a Spirit of Ecstasy reshaped specifically for this car's aerodynamics. The dashboard shares its layout with the Ghost rather than the Phantom, with a thicker steering wheel that signals an owner who drives rather than a chauffeur. Zero to sixty comes in 4.4 seconds and top speed is limited to 155 miles per hour.