- All right, so this
thing behind me, this, this is the Rolls-Royce Spectre. This is a ridiculously
expensive, fully electric, gigantic luxury sedan. It's crazy. It doesn't make any sense. But at the same time, actually, it does like
make a lot of sense. It makes perfect sense. So you're gonna have to
hear me out with this one. So yeah, if we're just talking
about on the surface here, this thing is wild. It's a giant luxury sedan, or I guess technically,
it's a coupe because... (birds cawing) All right, I'm gonna need y'all to... (birds cawing) I need y'all to chill. It's a coupe because it has two doors, but it also has four seats, but 577 horsepower, 600
plus pound feet of torque. The thing weighs nearly 7,000 pounds, nearly as much as the Rivian R1T, but it also does zero
to 60 in the low fours. It has a ton of power in a straight line, and it gets about 260 miles
of range on a full charge. But the thing is, and
you probably already see where this is going, you've heard me talk about luxury sedans before. What more perfect vehicle
could there be to go electric? If I want a luxury sedan, what do I want? I want it to be big, smooth,
quiet, lots of space. And it's probably gonna
be heavy and expensive, but comes with the territory. This would be the quietest,
smoothest, softest, with the most space
Rolls-Royce ever built. Rolls-Royce knows that too. They have promised that
their entire lineup will be electric by 2030. So I feel like I was right. So they're starting with this one. This Spectre essentially,
it's a BMW i7 battery and motors underneath, but
with the custom suspension and Rolls-Royce up top, and it's $500,000, and I'll get to the price in a minute. But even with as much as we
have going on with this car, there is a pretty constant
theme through the whole car for me pretty clearly. And that is soft. This is the softest car that you can buy, everything about it from the suspension, which I'll talk about in a second, to the way it drives,
the super soft steering, the seats you sit in,
the super soft leather and materials inside, the floor mats are
incredibly soft, lambswool. But then even the things
like the acceleration and deceleration are mapped to the pedal to be super smooth and soft. Just the whole thing, super soft. So let's get to the
inside of this Rolls-Royce because it's a Rolls-Royce and where else would you wanna be? But also because it's freezing outside. I gotta start with this. You've seen Rolls-Royces before, right? The door opens from the front here and yeah, okay, we've seen this before. Let's get in, put our foot on the brake and as soon as I put my foot on the brake, this door will close itself (door clicking) softly. So this is a pretty iconic
view just 'cause there's... You can't really see it
when it's bright like this, but the stars above me
right now in the headliner. But the first thing you
notice getting into this car is great, high-quality
materials and also very soft. I'm sitting in a very,
very soft leather seat. But even look at this stuff. (clinking sound) This turns so smoothly and so softly. And if you wanna stop the airflow, you just push that. That's sick. The way all the HVAC controls are set up, you can change the temperature of the top and bottom just by doing that. I want it to be warm. So I'm over here. You can set the airflow to be super high or super soft. And then under the wood
trim and everything, I don't know if you're
able to appreciate this, but this carpeting down
here looks kind of messy but this is the softest carpet I've ever seen in a car. Allegedly it's lambswool. At least that's what it
says on the option sheet but that is soft. But really, truly the special
thing to me about this car is actually driving it,
which you might not think about a gigantic Rolls-Royce like this. But three things. One, the suspension is unbelievably soft. They actually have a feature, so it's a special customized
suspension from Rolls-Royce. It's called the Planar Suspension system. Basically, it decouples the anti-roll bars when driving in a straight line. So each wheel acts independently. So when you're driving in a straight line and like one of the wheels hits a pothole, the entire car doesn't sort
of waft and wobble over it. It's just that one wheel that hits it or maybe the two left side
wheels or something like that. It gives it this cloud boat-like feeling. It really masks speed super
well, just like the Maybach. You'll have no idea how slow
or how fast you're going. You're just sort of floating
along like you're on a cloud. Secondly, somehow even the acceleration and steering are soft. I mean this is a gigantic steering wheel, really, really big car but it does have rear wheel
steers so you can sort of nimbly get around. But this is one of the rare
cars with 500 plus horsepower that you don't really
ever feel like you need to use it or floor it. You don't really feel inspired to go fast or anything like that. It's so soft. The acceleration and deceleration
tuning from the pedal is incredibly gradual,
especially off the line. When you turn on regenerative braking by hitting the bee pedal
on this little stalk here, when you let your foot off the brake, it basically does a limo stop. It slows all the way down to almost zero and then just barely
eases you into a stop. It's so smooth. And then, of course, off
the line, same thing. You can stamp it off of a light, but you're not gonna spin
tires and slam your head back. It doesn't wanna do that. It wants to roll you into
power and it's so good at it. And then three, last but
definitely not least, the most impressive part is this is the quietest car I
have ever sat in in my life. It's crazy quiet in this cabin. So you've got windows that roll down and they are double pane thick glass. And you can hear that
there's a difference as soon as you roll the window down,
all that outside noise. When you roll all the windows up, you are isolated in a cabin
that feels truly impressive. There's apparently hundreds of pounds of noise-isolating material in here. You can't hear the road, you don't even hear much wind at all. You don't hear the drive train. And if there are other cars around you, if there are trucks on the
road, you just don't hear them. You can have whisper quiet conversations at highway speed in this car. It's so quiet. I've never driven a car this quiet. This is on 23-inch wheels. That should be impossible. What? This isn't even a smooth road. How is it this quiet? And like, there are speakers
all over the cabin of this car. It's got this bespoke
$11,000 speaker system and I'm gonna get to the
price stuff in a second. But yes, it sounds amazing, but it's not because it's some $11,000 amazing speaker system; it's because it's so quiet in here, you hear everything over the
top of normal road noise, you hear more bass and sub bass, you hear more instrument separation 'cause you're in a very quiet room. Now, the rest of the driving experience you can kind of treat like normal. It's got cameras around
the car, which is nice. It has wireless CarPlay, which is cool. It's rated for 260 miles of range. And in cold weather like
this, it's really closer to 200, maybe 190. But what I do like is
it's very conservative with your range estimates. So if it says you can get 150 miles, you can actually get 150 miles
and be comfortable with it. So it's kind of like Rivian in that way. I think that's nice. So then, okay, two things I wanna show you about the tech in this car that I didn't expect to be that good, but they are actually. So first of all, there's
two screens up here. There's one in the middle, which is where your
wireless CarPlay can go and the normal built-in software. And then there's also the screen
behind the steering wheel. I don't love this one, especially because I don't
love the power reserve where it counts down from
100 as you accelerate. I mean, either way, this is
the normal software screen and yeah, wireless CarPlay is
great and it's a touchscreen and you can actually move around
with this little dial here with the Spirit of Ecstasy
on it to move around through the software. So that's great that that works. But the first cool thing is on
this gigantic steering wheel, there is this voice assistant button, which if you have CarPlay
going, it will trigger Siri. But if you don't, it will trigger the car's
built-in voice assistant, which is tied to the microphone
right above your head or right above the passenger's head. And when you press it, it'll let you change things
like the volume of the music or Bluetooth or whatever. And it worked, which is nice. But the second thing is
built into this tech here, and I go into this little menu. Drive Recorder. I didn't expect this, but
you can actually go in and through all the
cameras around the car, set up dashcam recordings from when you hit the Record button. It'll record before you hit,
it'll record after you hit. And you can always see what's going on around your car in pretty
decently high quality too, and it stores it. It's got all these different
cameras around the car for you to keep track of what
happened, an accident. I mean, a car this expensive, I would wanna be able to see everything. So I'm glad it has that.
I didn't expect that. Good job, Rolls-Royce. Now, I know you're not supposed to talk about options and
prices on a car like this because if you're asking the question, you probably can't afford it. But this is a video and it's
fun anyway, so let's do that 'cause there's a lot of
crazy prices with this car. First of all, the starting
price is $420,000. That's already pretty expensive. This car, MSRPs, with its options at $540,000. So the car has almost $120,000 of options. Let's check out some of the highlights. So this gorgeous Barney, or I mean, sorry, twilight purple color. Sorry, there's a ton of salt
on it and that's not my fault. The roads look crazy in New Jersey, but this purple color here,
this is a $13,100 paint job. And then this satin silver in the middle, 'cause you got this little
two-tone look going on, pretty signature Rolls-Royce look, but that satin silver is an extra $9,525. Then these wheels here, these are the optional 23-inch wheels. They're a little bigger, they're gonna hit your range a little bit but you know, if they look sick and you like the seven-spoke thing, you can get 'em for $10,675. And by the way, the fact
that it rides this soft on 23-inch wheels with low
profile tires is crazy to me. Now, the stars in the headliner
we already know about, that comes standard, thankfully
for free in the Rolls-Royce, but the starlight in the doors, well, that'll cost you $13,300 extra. Totally worth it though. Now, this interior is pretty serious and it matches the outside
of the car very much so with this two-one look. the Arctic white leather
finish is gonna run you $5,975. And then the purple seat piping, yes, the purple piping,
that's $4,800 more. And the colored stitching in
purple is a nice little touch that will cost you 2,500 more dollars. But I think probably
my favorite of them all is the iconic Rolls-Royce umbrella that comes with every car. That's free. And it's right here. If you haven't already heard of it, Rolls-Royces all have this
little umbrella in the door so you never have to get wet when you get out of your Rolls-Royce. But to get the canopy color
of the umbrella in black, well, you'll have to pay
$1,775 just for that. But I mean, if you're gonna
matte black everything, you might as well get the black canopy. That'll cost you. So the list goes on. Like I mentioned, $120,000
total in options in this car. And for that price, you could literally
get a whole nother car. You could get a BMW i7 for that price, which is pretty hilarious. But if you're asking me, I'm no expert, but I'm still calling this
my favorite Rolls-Royce ever. Fully electric. Look at that, nice little magnetizing to get into your subtrunk
with your charging cable. Pop that down. Nice real trunk. Big spacious car. And I like the taillights here. And I also like this little charge port on the right-hand side. Pop that open, big door. I wonder if they're gonna
go CCS to NACS at some point 'cause that's kind of
the biggest complaint with this car is only 260
miles of range is not huge. But at the end of the day, I really like what Doug
DeMuro said about this car. He's reviewed the Spectre as well. And the difference between
a regular luxury car and a $500,000 Rolls is it's a level up that takes a lot of extra money to get to. Like you don't need more than an S-Class. You don't need more luxury
than a $100,000 electric car or any sort of luxury sedan but if you do want an actual
level up over those standards, the price isn't just linear. The price goes up like this. That's when you end up
with this fake grille 'cause it's electric but everything (metallic tapping sound) that sounds so nice, and
the lambswool carpets, and the extreme level of sound deadening, and the incredibly quiet interior, and everything being so
soft, that's how you get to the level up is by
spending quite a bit more. So yeah, I'm not ever
gonna buy a car like this, but I'm glad I got to experience it because experiencing it is way better than just seeing it in a video. Actually sitting in the car
and driving at highway speed and whispering and being
able to hear it is crazy. So I'm impressed. I'm impressed that they
got to pull off all of that and actually sell to real people. Maybe the next one will
have a little more range and maybe NACS. Anyway, that's it. Thanks for watching. Catch you guys in the next one. Peace.
