The Drop Tail’s entrance finish design, in the meantime, is extra acquainted, though whereas the grille’s bars are sometimes straight and upright, they’re curved on the Drop Tail and finish at chamfered – slightly than right-angled – corners. These changes mirror the automobile’s “informal spirit”, in line with Rolls-Royce.
That ‘informal’ strategy continues inside, the place the transient was to create an “intimate” atmosphere. Switchgear is obscured the place potential. Only three buttons are left in open view, and the powered centre console might be moved to cowl the infotainment management dial.
An enormous wood panel cocoons the seats, supposed to bolster the “romantic” ambiance. It was constructed by a single craftsman – a former Rolls-Royce apprentice – who is alleged to have labored on the panel over 9 months, in silence, for no multiple hour per day, to make sure full deal with the duty. This was the “most complicated, involved and prohibitive work of craft ever produced” at its Goodwood manufacturing unit, mentioned Coachbuild design boss Alex Innes.
Each of the 4 Drop Tails comes with a bespoke Audemars Piguet watch, which additionally capabilities as the automobile’s clock, mounted to the dashboard utilizing a clasp mechanism. This posed a big problem, mentioned Innes: “That had to be crash tested, both physically and in virtual simulations, to ensure that the timepiece would remain in situ were the car to experience any sort of abstract movements in a crash situation. [We went to] lengths that nobody would normally go to, were they not instigated by the specific wishes of a commissioning client.”
