Rolls-Royce Dawn 2015

[MobilMalik]

The Dawn’s bodywork is 80% new compared with the Wraith on which it is based. Rolls says the cabin has room for four adults to sit in comfort. The only carryover exterior parts from the Wraith are the doors and the grille surround.

The company’s design chief, Giles Taylor, set out to create a car that was as beautiful with the roof up as it was down, with the intention of producing “two cars in one”. The firm looked to the 1952 Silver Dawn Drophead, the last coachbuilt Rolls, for inspiration.

Powering the Dawn is the same twin-turbo 6.6-litre V12 used by the Ghost. The engine produces 563 hp at 5250 rpm and 575 ft-lb at 1500 rpm and drives the rear wheels through an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox, which links with the sat-nav to automatically pre-select the next appropriate gear. The Dawn can get from 0-100 kph in 4.9sec.

The Dawn is 5285mm long, 1947mm wide, 1502mm high and has a wheelbase of 3112mm, dimensions broadly in line with those of the Wraith.

It weighs 2560kg...

 

[JKgo]

..."Dawn"?



{Yawns, goes back to sleep}

 

[CORRUPTEDDISC]

They probably never will, but Rolls should totally make a full-on luxury supercar. It can be done without compromising performance or luxury, as both the SLR and Veyron prove.

 

[GranTurismo guy]

They probably never will, but Rolls should totally make a full-on luxury supercar. It can be done without compromising performance or luxury, as both the SLR and Veyron prove.

Maybe something like the one-77?

 

[AudiMan2011]

Maybe something like the one-77?

Or more along the lines of the tasteless Maybach Exelero.

 

[CORRUPTEDDISC]

Or more along the lines of the tasteless Maybach Exelero.

To compare the Exelero, or any Maybach for that matter, to a Rolls-Royce, is rediculous.