R O LLS - R OYCE
miraculous
Perhaps it shouldn’t be too much
nonetheless. The Wraith BB’s front brake
of a surprise. After all, it was a Wraith
discs are an inch larger than before,
control is little short of
PAINT IT BLACK
After the excesses of Vegas, we introduced
Exterior chrome and
the Wraith to the dark side of our capital
Black Badge that managed to be sixth
even the Spirit of
city and it was instantly at home. You
and they do an amazingly fussless job
fastest in the supercar run during the
Ecstasy mascot are
won’t take it to its limits when negotiating
of shedding speed on the approach to
Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this
now coated in black.
Canary Wharf or the back street of SE1, of
corners. You might expect a car like this
year (eclipsing the Jaguar F-type SVR,
The dashboard and
course, but you will be reassured knowing
to heave like a medieval galleon during a
McLaren 675 LT, P1 GTR and Aston
door-tops feature an
what’s in reserve.
Force 10 storm, but get it right, and the
Martin Vantage GT8 in the process – all
intricate aluminium-
big black beast scythes through the turns
credit to RR’S FOS expert, racing driver
threaded carbon fibre
the Black Badge is just as much a symbol
with barely a chirp from its enormous
Justin Law, who’s presumably equally
composite
of where the company sees itself going.
tyres. Accomplished circuit drivers know
good when it comes to threading the eye
Like many other famous prestige names,
to keep a car ‘within itself ’, and the BB is
of a needle).
Rolls-Royce is adapting to change. The
a positive enabler in this respect. Provoke it, and it’s still amazingly poised.
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Of course, the BB’s dynamic capability is destined to remain mainly theoretical.
For, although very much a real thing,
entire car industry is concerned about the
so-called
‘Millennials’
rejection