Start with what the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail is: a 2-door cabriolet with 6.75 N74B68 twin-turbocharged V12, built from 2021, in the decade the industry is turning electric. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Daniel Koenigs.
The story
The Rolls-Royce Boat Tail is a mid-sized luxury coach built grand tourer car made by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Rolls-Royce said it created a trio of Boat Tail cars, each commissioned by a different client. It is the world's most expensive street legal new car, with a speculated price of US$28 million.
What is underneath
The engine is 6.75 N74B68 twin-turbocharged V12. On the scales it comes to NNNN -. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 3,321 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Rolls-Royce line-up the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail has a clear place: the factory was Goodwood Plant, West Sussex, England. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Kia EV6, the Tesla Model Y, the Nissan Z. Nearby in the Rolls-Royce catalogue sit the Rolls-Royce 100EX and the Rolls-Royce 102EX.
Owning one today
The list price when new was US$28,000,000. Condition, mileage and specification move any single car a long way from a headline figure.