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The Rolls-Royce Sweptail

Custom-made for a really demanding client, the Rolls-Royce Sweptail has been introduced in a beautiful setting : the Villa D'Este and its famous Car show in Italy. If the base includes the main features of the Phantom coupe, the rear part stands out with its fastback slim design and its panoramic glass roof ending with a point, paying tribute to wooden racing boats (Riva) and models from the 20's and 30's. The car also features the biggest aluminum grille ever seen on a Rolls-Royce as well as the biggest "Spirit of Ecstasy" statuette, this winged mascot also called "the Silver Lady". For Giles Taylor, Design Director at Rolls-Royce, this car is the automobile equivalent of Haute Couture...



The anonymous buyer who has contacted Rolls-Royce three years ago with a really precise idea in mind, participated to this unique model's design and development, being inspired by vintage cars as the Delahaye or Hans Kohlruss's ones. Here, the windshield, the roof and the rear window are only one and, you can find prestigious finishing touches between Mocassin leather and Dark Spice (also used for the unique model made for Belgium circuit of Spa-Francorchamps), Macassar Ebony wooden marquetry and Paldao veneer adorning the rear part's interior in a genuine love declaration to yachts and private jets universes. The experts will recognize some elements from Jonckheere Phantom I Round Door (1925) as well from the Phantom II Streamline Saloon (1934) designed by British coach-builder Park Ward and from the Phantom II Two Door Light Saloon by Gurney Nutting. Its price ? 10 million pounds (almost 11,4 million euros) ! An amount that almost makes the Bugatti Chiron (3 million euros) a novice...