Rolls-Royce waves goodbye to Wraith with special edition

The Rolls-Royce Dawn and Wraith are officially retired, but Rolls-Royce is still waving the close of the bunch with a special edition. This is the Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge Black Arrow. A whole mouth full. There will only be 12 of them and that makes those dozen extra rare Wraiths even more special: they are the last examples of a Rolls-Royce coupe with a V12 in the nose.

As its name implies, the Black Arrow is based on the Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge, in turn the sportier flavor of the 5.27 meter long two-door coupe. Just like the ‘regular’ Wraith, it has a biturbo 6.6 V12 under the hood that kicks it up to 632 hp, although the maximum torque in the Black Badge is 870 Nm higher than that of the milder variant (800 Nm). The special Black Arrow models are inspired by the Thunderbolt, an eight-wheeled colossus with two V12s from Rolls-Royce that set an all-time speed record in 1938. The 7-ton colossus – with a large black arrow with yellow accents on the flanks – managed to reach a speed of rum 575 km / h on the salt flats in Utah. Thus, the special Wraiths have a special color scheme. According to Rolls-Royce, it has applied a glass-infused paint layer under the high-gloss paint. According to the English, this is somewhat reminiscent of the surface of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Special. In their own words, the development of the paint took no less than eighteen months.

The Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge Black Arrows can be recognized from the outside by the Bright Yellow-colored accents and we also see a lot of that in the interior. Also, the door panels should refer to the ‘cracked’ surface of the salt flats of Utah, already mentioned. A similar pattern can be found between the seats in the back. The headliner is interspersed with 2,117 ‘stars’ in the same position as they were on September 16, 1938 when the world record attempt was made by the Thunderbolt was performed in the sky.

Does this make you greedy? Then we have to disappoint you: all twelve copies of the special Wraith have already been forgiven.