The the statuette that adorns the hood of Roll-Royce Motor Cars, is the inspiration for a collection of 10 cars called the The collection — no prices are mentioned in the company’s description — is designed to “celebrates the ethereal beauty, grace and legacy” of the Spirit of Ecstasy, with interiors “inspired by the apparent movement of her robes, as the motor car glides by.” Wow. One dressed-up example, the , is on display at the current Car Week extravaganza.
But don’t get your hopes up: All 10 units are already sold, with only three coming to the U.S. The roof is coated in Andalusian White with Thracian Blue covering everything from the window line down.
The Spirit of Ecstasy ornament — inspired by the ancient Greek statue, the Winged Victory of Samothrace — is rendered in ceramic white. Slip inside to find seats adorned will cloth upholstery that features a flowing graphic design, but it's not simply screen printed. Instead, says that the pattern is made up of 869,500 stitches of embroidery in the seats and doors.
The headliner features Rolls-Royce's signature Starlight illumination motif with 1,500 tiny fiber-optic lights arranged in a wavy pattern. There’s also what RR calls its Celestial Pulse Gallery artwork, a centerpiece formed of seven individually milled aluminum ribbons in the same ceramic finish as the statuette. Would a Scintilla customer be concerned with something as mundane as a horsepower figure for this million-dollar-plus vehicle? G.