Most successful open Rolls-Royce is no more
A brand new Rolls-Royce Dawn will never see dawn again. After more than seven years, the most successful open Rolls-Royce ever says goodbye to the car country.
Everything comes to an end, including the production of gigantic luxury battleships like the Rolls-Royce Dawn. That production of the open equivalent of the Wraith would stop this year was announced last year at the same time as the Ghost was dropped. Now the sun has finally set for the Rolls-Royce Dawn.
Rolls-Royce presented the 5.3-meter Dawn at the Frankfurt IAA in 2015. Based on the Wraith and therefore partly using BMW technology, the Dawn had a 6.6 biturbo V12 that kicked it up to 571 hp in the base, but which produced 601 hp and 841 Nm in the later Black Badge variant. .
According to Rolls-Royce, the Dawn is its most successful open model ever. The Dawn will also go down in history as the last open-top combustion engine Rolls-Royce ever. The name of the open Rolls was a reference to the Silver Dawn Drophead Coupé of which Rolls-Roye made less than thirty copies between 1950 and 1954. To illustrate the level of comfort offered by the Dawn, Rolls-Royce reports that an American journalist drove a Dawn through an area where an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale had occurred. The journalist in question only heard about the earthquake the next morning and would not have noticed because of the comfort of the Dawn. In the Netherlands, 17 copies of the Dawn have been registered.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl