Start with what the Rolls-Royce Droptail is: a Cabriolet with 6.75 N74B68 twin-turbocharged V12, built from 2023, in the decade the industry is turning electric. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Alex Innes (Head of Coachbuild Design), Simon Haynes (Exterior), Can Karaismail (Exterior), Pellumb Gurra (Interior).
The background
The Rolls-Royce Droptail is a full-sized luxury coach built grand tourer car produced by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It was introduced in August 2023 and is set to be produced with four variations. The Droptail succeeds the Boat Tail as the most expensive new car in the world with an estimated price of more than $32 million - rivaling the costs of the most expensive cars sold at auction. Like the Boat Tail, some variants include clocks that can be removed and worn as watches.
The engineering
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 3772 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Rolls-Royce line-up the Rolls-Royce Droptail has a clear place: the factory was Goodwood Plant, West Sussex, England. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tesla Cybertruck, the Nissan Z, the Kia EV6. Its Rolls-Royce stablemates include the Rolls-Royce 100EX and the Rolls-Royce 102EX.