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Miami, FL, Monday, February 24, 2025. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars unveils Black Badge Spectre — the marque’s alter ego, amplified. In addition to debuting bold exterior finishes, vivid interior details, and innovative opportunities for Bespoke, Black Badge Spectre can summon 792 lb-ft of torque, with a record 659 hp of power. This makes Black Badge Spectre the most powerful Rolls-Royce in history.
In every way, Black Badge Spectre is Rolls-Royce at its most potent — which perfectly captures the spirit of the bold individuals it has been created for. Black Badge clients are unique within Rolls-Royce. These rule-breakers built success by fearlessly rejecting conventions and committing to a vision that is entirely their own.
The decision to craft such a powerful motor car was driven by the expectations of the marque’s Black Badge clients. Their rigorous demands required a formidable engineering response, built on Rolls-Royce’s profound understanding of what a Black Badge should be: effortlessly intense, immediate, and precise.
Harnessing Formidable Power
To ensure this philosophy accurately reflected how clients use their motor cars in the field, a group of Rolls-Royce owners granted engineers access to their anonymized driving data, allowing drivetrain specialists to quantitatively analyze their driving behavior across hundreds of thousands of real-world miles in real-world conditions. This revealed that drivers exploited maximum power in short pulses more than over extended periods. This insight provided powerful validation of the marque’s approach, perfectly matching the dramatic, intense character of the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever created—meticulously developed in the image of this bold client group.
For Black Badge Spectre, the concept of formidable bursts of power is taken to an extreme with two powertrain innovations.
- The first innovation is a unique Infinity Mode, a tribute to the infinity symbol used to signify a Black Badge Rolls-Royce. Unlocked by pressing the Infinity ∞ button on the steering wheel, the full 659 hp of power is made available, providing a more direct throttle response to the driver. Once this mode is activated, the dials become more vibrant to match the change in the motor car’s character.
- The second innovation is the Spirited Mode. This allows the driver to experience a burst of intense, instantaneous acceleration. The driver engages this function by fully depressing the brake and throttle at the same time, waiting for a haptic and visual response signaling the car is ready, before fully releasing the brake. This temporarily amplifies the torque output to 792 lb-ft, unleashing a surge of force and propelling the motor car from 0-60 mph in just 4.1 seconds.
These new power features have historical precedent. In aircraft powered by the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, including the Supermarine Spitfire, pilots could obtain a burst of power by pushing a switch on the throttle quadrant. Pilots were required to report the use of this function on landing as a precaution to flight engineers — this requirement does not apply to Black Badge Spectre drivers today.
Chassis Engineering
Rolls-Royce chassis specialists have introduced changes to inspire clients to wield the unprecedented power of Black Badge Spectre with confidence.
- The steering weight is increased.
- The roll stabilization is adjusted to create more feedback from steering inputs and reduce body-roll during cornering.
- Enhanced dampers also increase body control, reducing ‘squatting’ in acceleration or deceleration.
These revisions perfectly balance an enhanced sense of engagement with the effortless operation and famed Magic Carpet Ride associated with Rolls-Royce motor cars.
A Darkened Aesthetic
Black Badge Spectre makes its global debut in a new Vapor Violet paint finish, a deep black-violet inspired by the neon ambiance of 1980s and 1990s club culture. A painted Iced Black hood has also been introduced, creating a bold contrast that can be paired with the marque’s palette of 44,000 ‘prêt-à-porter’ colors.
In addition to the existing shoulder and fender coachline options, clients are now able to commission a ‘waft’ coachline, located on the lower half of the super coupe. This accentuates a crisp design line on the lower third of the motor car.
Black Badge Spectre also introduces a bold new 23-inch five-spoke forged aluminum wheel design. Available in a part-polished or all-black finish, the complex geometry subtly indicates the hidden technical complexity and potency of this motor car.
As with all Black Badge models, Black Badge Spectre’s brightwork is presented in signature dark finish, signaling its noir character. This includes the marque’s hallmark Pantheon Grille surround, Spirit of Ecstasy, and the double ‘R’ Badge of Honor, as well as the motor car’s door handles, side window surround and bumper accents.
Vivid Illuminations -Light And Color
Furthering its commitment to advanced, contemporary craftsmanship, Rolls-Royce developed a unique feature that enhances and intensifies Black Badge Spectre’s Illuminated Grille.
A new Illuminated Grille backplate has been introduced for the motor car, which is offered in Tailored Purple, Charles Blue, Chartreuse, Forge Yellow, and Turchese. This allows clients to extend their exterior color onto this new canvas or create a unique accent to complement a coachline or the interior. This vibrantly colored illumination can extend into the interior with newly developed Illuminated Treadplates, which are available in ten complementary colors.
A Vibrant Inner Sanctuary
From the moment you enter Black Badge Spectre, its rebellious character is immediately apparent through the bold interior treatment.
The unique pattern on the Illuminated Fascia, which is an abstract expression of the Spirit of Ecstasy, now incorporates the Infinity symbol used across the wider Black Badge family. A statement of infinite power, the emblem once marked historical water-speed records and is a hallmark trusted by adrenaline pioneers. The fascia comprises over 5,500 ‘stars’ of varying proportions and intensity, set in a Piano Black ‘sky’.
Framing this advanced craft feature is a richly complex Technical Fiber surface finish. This diamond-shaped weave uses carbon and fine metal thread on top of a black Bolivar wood base. The thread is laid by hand in a diamond pattern between layers of carbon fiber, creating a three-dimensional effect. Once cured, each interior piece is sandblasted, sealed with six layers of lacquer, and hand-polished to a flawless finish, adding striking depth and clarity. The Black Badge Infinity symbol is further incorporated in the motor car, stitched into the leather ‘Waterfall’ section, which separates the rear seats.
Black Badge Spectre’s instrument dials can be curated with a choice of five color themes: Vivid ‘Grellow’, Neon Nights, Cyan Fire, Ultraviolet and Synth Wave, allowing clients to harmonize the physical and digital surfaces within their motor car via the SPIRIT operating system. This digital architecture of luxury also grants access to remote charging and location information, and the marque’s exclusive digital members club, Whispers.
