Rolls Royce Wraith Rental in Los Angeles
The Rolls Royce Wraith in black with a red interior is the two-door driver's car in our Los Angeles fleet, the most powerful V12 we run, built to be driven hard rather than arrived in. Rolls discontinued it for the electric Spectre, making every booking scarce. Book it for a self-drive day or a shoot built around the fastback roofline, not a wedding.
How It Drives
The Wraith carries 624 horsepower from a 6.6 liter twin turbo V12, more than any other combustion Rolls Royce we run, and the throttle asks you to mean it before it lets go. There is an inch or so of dead travel at the top of the pedal, then the rear end hunkers down and the car gathers speed the way an aircraft does before it leaves the ground. The steering is fingertip light and never fights you, so on Angeles Crest Highway you place the long bonnet by feel rather than by muscle. Satellite Aided Transmission reads the road ahead and holds a gear into a bend before you brake, so the shifts you notice are the ones you would have chosen yourself.
How It Photographs
Black paint over a red cabin is the Wraith's nightlife spec, and it works because the two colours never blend into one impression. From outside, in Los Angeles evening light on Sunset Boulevard, the coupe reads as a single dark shape with no chrome catching the eye until a coach door opens. That is the moment to shoot, the extra-long door swinging up and back to reveal red leather that a black exterior gives no warning of. Shoot it under streetlight or under a hotel porte-cochere rather than flat midday sun, where the black body has nothing to reflect and the photograph goes flat. The red cabin is the payoff, so give it its own frame.
Why This One
We keep one Wraith, black with a red interior, and there is no other one to compare it against in our fleet, so the choice is whether this is the right Rolls Royce rather than which color of it. It is the only two-door, the only car under this badge built for the driver rather than the back seat, and the only combustion Rolls we run with more power than a Cullinan Black Badge. Rolls discontinued the Wraith once the Spectre arrived, so every booking is also a booking of a car the brand no longer builds. Choose this over a Ghost or a Cullinan when the day is about driving in Los Angeles, not about being driven through it.
What's On This One
This is the Wraith trim, black exterior over a red interior, rear-wheel drive, running a 6.6 liter twin turbo V12 rated at 624 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque, the most power of any combustion car we keep under this badge. It seats four across two doors, with an extra-long rear-hinged coach door on each side that a button closes for you once you are inside. The rotary controller is cut crystal, the standard-equipment list runs to a hat stand behind the front seats, and Satellite Aided Transmission uses the navigation data to choose gears ahead of a corner. Zero to sixty comes in 4.4 seconds and top speed is limited to 155 miles per hour.
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