Rolls-Royce debuts the dark side of its Post Opulent design with the new Black Badge Ghost.
With a drivetrain and chassis re-engineered for more urgent performance, the curated collection debuts with striking Turchese Leather and Technical Carbon veneer, along with other options. Clients are free to select any of the marque’s 44,000 colours or create their own entirely unique Bespoke hue.
Black Badge Ghost joins an iconic family: Rolls-Royce debuted Black Badge with Wraith and Ghost in 2016, followed by Dawn in 2017 then Cullinan in 2019 made successful in part by increasingly younger clients worldwide.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Luxury Intelligence Unit has a unique understanding of its clients: their aesthetic preferences, uncompromising lifestyle requirements and changing taste patterns.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has always attracted subversive clients – ‘non-conformist’ women and men who built their success by breaking rules, taking risks and challenging conventions.
New codes of luxury resonate with their sensibilities: darker in aesthetic, assertive in character and bold in design. Black Badge Ghost is the dark side of Post Opulence: minimalism in extremis.
Black Badge Ghost in Malaysia launches within the next few months. Pricing to be announced.
Highlights
Key to its potent character are:
- Architecture of Luxury, Rolls-Royce’s proprietary all-aluminium spaceframe architecture providing extraordinary body stiffness
- Infinity lemniscate symbol continues to codify noir expression of Rolls-Royce
- Drivetrain and chassis re-engineering: Ghost is equipped with all-wheel drive, four-wheel steering and the world’s first Planar Suspension system. For Black Badge, re-engineered to include the fitting of more voluminous air springs to alleviate body roll under more assertive cornering.
- Rolls-Royce hallmark twin-turbocharged 6.75-litre V12 engine generating extra power and torque
- Bespoke alloy wheel in Black Badge house style with carbon fibre barrel: Up of 22 layers of carbon fibre laid on three axes, then folded back on themselves, forming a total of 44 layers of carbon fibre.
- Motor car industry’s darkest black exterior, 100lbs (45kg) of paint
- Perfect canvas for clients to add high-contrast, hand-painted Coachlines, which has done much to create the Black Badge ‘black and neon’ aesthetic.
- Interior with advanced Technical fibre comprising carbon and metallic fibres. Multiple wood layers using black Bolivar veneer, crafted to create a three-dimensional effect with six layers of lacquer
- Iconic Illuminated Fascia features more than 90,000 laser-etched dots across the surface. This not only disperses the light evenly but creates a twinkling effect as the eye moves across the fascia, echoing the subtle sparkle of the Shooting Star Starlight Headliner.
