**The Joy of Driving a Sports Car: A Personal Experience with the Porsche 911 GT3 RS**

As I sat behind the wheel of my Porsche 911 GT3 RS, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and pleasure. The car's suspension seemed to lower itself perfectly for me, providing a comfortable ride that belied its sporty nature. I couldn't wait to put it through its paces on the track, where I knew it would truly shine.

The GT3 RS is a sports car like no other, with its powerful engine and agile handling making it a joy to drive. But what sets it apart from other cars in this class? For me, it's the way the car seems to come alive when you're behind the wheel. The engine purrs smoothly, the steering responds eagerly, and the brakes grip tenaciously - all of which combine to create an experience that's nothing short of exhilarating.

As I took the GT3 RS out for a spin, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction with my decision to own one. It's not just a car - it's an experience, a feeling that's hard to put into words. But I think the closest thing I can come up with is that it feels like a fine wine, getting better with age. The more you use it, the more you appreciate its nuances and complexities.

Of course, owning a sports car like the GT3 RS comes with its challenges. There's the maintenance, for one - all those complicated engines and suspension systems require regular upkeep to keep them running at their best. And then there's the cost of fuel, which can be steep, especially if you're planning on taking long trips or driving extensively in the city.

But for me, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. There's something special about driving a sports car like the GT3 RS that just can't be replicated with any other vehicle. Maybe it's the thrill of speed, maybe it's the pleasure of handling a well-crafted machine - whatever it is, I know that I'll always love my GT3 RS for what it is: a true driver's car.

**Rolls-Royce Spectre: A Luxury Electric Car**

As I got behind the wheel of the Rolls-Royce Spectre, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and curiosity. The car was quiet and smooth, with an instant torque that made it feel like a giant of a machine on the road. But despite its size and weight - 2.9 tons, to be exact - the Spectre handles surprisingly well, thanks in part to its low center of gravity and advanced suspension system.

One of the things I loved most about driving the Spectre was the way it seemed to glide over bumps and uneven pavement, like a ghostly apparition slipping silently through the city streets. It's an effect that's hard to describe - but basically, you get a sense that nothing is happening until something happens, which makes for a very strange and disorienting experience.

Of course, not everything about the Spectre is as smooth as it seems. When I encountered corners or other obstacles on the road, the car did start to stress its suspension system, and the weight of the batteries began to show through in the steering and handling. But even then, the Spectre held up remarkably well - thanks, I think, to the careful weighting of the car's four wheels, which helped it stay flat through turns.

The real challenge with driving an electric car like the Spectre is learning how to use its unique characteristics effectively. The instant torque can be a double-edged sword - on the one hand, it makes the car feel incredibly quick and responsive; on the other hand, it can make the tires lose traction in an instant if you're not careful. And then there's the issue of regenerative braking, which can sometimes take away from the overall driving experience.

**The Physics of Speed: Testing the Rolls-Royce Spectre**

I decided to put my doubts about the Spectre to rest by testing its performance on the road. Armed with nothing more than a stopwatch and a keen eye for timing, I set off to see how quickly it could accelerate from 0-60mph - a feat that Rolls-Royce claims the car can achieve in just 4.5 seconds.

The result? An astonishing 4.52 seconds, which was quicker than expected but by no means blindingly fast. But what really impressed me about the Spectre's performance was its ability to accelerate smoothly and steadily from low speed to high - something that few cars can match.

I also took the opportunity to test the car's stopping abilities on a long stretch of asphalt, where I was able to push it hard enough to stop within 108 feet. The result? A remarkably impressive 35mph trap speed, which just goes to show that even the most massive cars can be made to respond quickly and eagerly.

**A Luxury Good: Why Rolls-Royce is Still Relevant in an Electric Age**

Despite its electric powertrain, the Spectre feels very much like a traditional luxury car - one that's designed to provide comfort, style, and performance. And yet, at the same time, it also feels strangely modern and forward-thinking, thanks in part to its advanced technology and innovative design.

So what does the future hold for cars like the Spectre? Will they continue to dominate the market as a symbol of success and status? Or will new technologies like autonomous driving and advanced electrification systems change everything we thought we knew about the way we drive?

One thing's for sure: at the moment, cars like the Rolls-Royce Spectre are still very much relevant in an electric age. Not because they're necessarily the best or most practical option - but because they offer a unique combination of style, sophistication, and driving pleasure that's hard to find anywhere else.

For me, owning a sports car like the GT3 RS and a luxury car like the Spectre has been one of the greatest joys of my life. It's a reminder that even in an increasingly automated world, there's still something special about getting behind the wheel of a great machine - something that can make you feel truly alive and connected to the road ahead.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the new Rolls-Royce Spectre and could it be a bit like when David Beckham met Victoria Adams you know a match made in heaven you see what you've got there is the luxury of Rolls-Royce combined with silent effortless luxurious electric propulsion or could it work out a little bit more like when Brad Pit hooked up with Angelina Jolie and turned into a bit of a disaster well in this video we're going to find out whether the rollsroyce Spectre is more Posh and Beck or brangelina now to do that what I'm going to do is check out the exterior design talk you through the interior so that's a shame see how practical it is sorry Rolls-Royce please let me a car again I'm going to tell you what's good about this car what's not so good about this car it's a little bit soft I'm going to take it for a drive everyone's going to hate me and of course I'm going to launch it to see how quick it is from not to 60 M hour that is Progressive thrust I'm also going to get into a few scrapes with it as well yeah I'm out Watson you're watching carwow let's start this video by talking about the design of the Rolls-Royce Spectre it's a wide car but they haven't overdone it with design features very simplistic very elegant I really like the look of these protruding tail lipes less get on the fact that they have condensation in them let's see if the other one does as well oh dear let's let's move on around the side quick quick quick quick quick anyhow got to say this OB paint looks amazing or they wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea I like it though I like the big wheels as well they start at 22 in these are the 23s and I love rolls-royce's thick center cap so they actually stay upright when the car is driving along now just check it out inside profile it looks beautiful and huge it measures 5 1/2 M long and I love the coach line so this is painted by Human by hand and just check this out check this out that lines up perfectly absolutely perfectly it's insane love the shiny bits of trim around the windows these are the biggest doors on any rolls look at that absolutely massive and if you want you can have this silver Bonnet it's quite nice with the silver Bonnet at the front here you have the daytime running lights on top the main headlight unit below I think that was a design feature that was first started on the citrum Picasso MPV but looks really good on this rolls and you got the widest Grill of any Rolls-Royce and oh yes that's actually hurting my fingers because that's real authentic metal not like a fake metal grill that you get on a Bentley what is fake though is this you don't need that Grill look car stick of truth I just put it in there quite gingerly there we go look it's blanked out behind there the grill isn't grilling the actual cooling of the battery and stuff is done through some vents in there which can open and close when the batteries need cooling speaking of which it's absolutely huge the battery pack on this car weighs in at over 700 Kos which means that even though this is like a coupe Rolls-Royce it's almost 250 kg heavier than the massive Rolls-Royce Phantom 4- seater limousine it's also got a very massive charging port flap and I would have thought that maybe it would have been like electrically operated rather than having to operate it by hand to open it anyway that brings me onto the battery itself the Spectre has a usable battery capacity of 102 KW hours and according to Rolls-Royce that's good enough for a range of 329 miles but I wanted to test that out for myself so I fully charged the car and the trip computer said that will give me a range of 2 271 Mi anyway I'm barked on my journey and it took me 261 Mi and I still had 11 M of range remaining which meant a total possible of 272 Mi on a full charge so it means that trick computer is pretty accurate and that I achieved 83% of rolls-royce's claimed range however things aren't that simple with these electric cars you see while the trick computer may get to a point where it says you're out of range with no Mars remaining you do often have about 10 or so extra Mars available as a safety net so if I was to include those you could say this call do over like 280 miles on a full charge before it will concave and in fact when you look at my average energy consumption of 2.8 m per kwatt hour multiply that up by the battery of 102 kwatt hours then you're looking at a real world possible range of about 286 Mi and interestingly the trick computer is now saying 291 Mi on a full charge also I should point out that most of my miles were done a Motorway speeds where electric cars aren't that efficient so it's not completely plausible that this car should be able to break the 300 M Mark if you're very very careful when driving it welcome to the inside of the Rolls-Royce Spectre and the first thing I want to show you is this the car is the very first Rolls-Royce to have fully digital dials but I think they've done them in a very sympathetic way that looks lovely doesn't it now you've got a main infotainment screen here which is based on the BMW system it's reasonably easy to navigate it's absolutely fine and then moving over here there's something you don't get on a BMW and it's the special Spectre graphic here and that this of like Galaxy thing going on now this isn't painted on these are loads of little holes that are like punched through some wood and behind there you have some lights so it's actually illuminated that is insane to what's also insane look at this that's solid metal their events feels so so expensive so do all the switches and buttons oh yeah that's satisfying Everything feels really nice to move and to touch wait a minute what's that apart from that oh no what's going on there so that's a shame so this is a real cheap feeding bit of plastic the kind of thing you'd expect to find on something like a daa not a Rolls Roy they tried to cover it up a bit by putting leather on the stalk and stitching it it doesn't really work cuz you don't touch that part you touch that part and actually the leather makes it look like something a little bit rude that I'm not going to mention there's another cheap feeling bit of material in here and it's the vanity mirror everything else is just lovely like the diffuse light from there this the grab handle the lighting area up here everything else that you touch it's just so gorgeous and special feeling me I love it I love the door handles up here and like the metal strip that you get and you just touch that as you reaching the door handle it just adds a feeling of luxury quality to this car one thing I find quite weird though is that you sit really quite low in it makes me feel short because the dash is quite tall and quite Bluff upright now you can of course jack up your sink quite a long way I thought that the actual electric motors in the seats would be a bit quieter see as this is a Rolls-Royce I me just check the windows that's better that's quiet the electric window motor is definitely quiet yeah like that you can also move the steering wheel of course that's not so quiet either is it h oh well let's check out storage spaces oh yeah this is all lined with thought it feels nice you got wireless charging there USB VCS and 12vt socket it EDG down there there's a little place here for your keys you got the controller there for the infotainment system if you'd rather rotate and push rather than touchy touchy on the screen back to the storage you got your cup holders there and just look at the damping on this oh that feels so solid and expensive really really nice let's check out the glove box oh nicely damped as well it's not the biggest but it's large enough oh I just have another G that as for the door bins well they not the largest I do have a bottle in here and let me just see if I can get a larger bottle cuz rollsroyce drivers still want to drink there we go look you can fit a large bottle in there I take it all back decent size can it fit the larger bottle this is make or break for Rolls-Royce oh yeah there we go this car's bound to be a roaring success now potential customers have breathed a sigh of relief there is one problem I actually find with these door bins you probably noticed it then they go back a little way so there's been a few times that I've been out in this car and I've like looked down there my wallet in there no it's not and I got out the car then I realized my wallet isn't with me so then I have to come back and just check down back there look look look look let me show you look phone can you see my phone no you can't it's gone in it it's disappeared no phone in there it's all the way back there oh do you know what can you hear that noise I've just hit the button to activate the seat massaging in fact there's so many options on this car in terms of seat massaging you can massage your lower legs your back your buttocks you can also alter all the heating of the steering wheel and the armrests and you can alter how the seating actually warms your body whether it's more on your legs or more on your back it's quite incredible really in fact the ability to completely Speck this car up and make it completely bespoke for yourself is also incredible so if you don't like this this kind of obene cream I do actually you can go for something completely different maybe louder maybe less in your face one last thing I want to show you it's the doors so to open the door I pull that and it'll open there and then to actually open it further I pull again and it opens electrically though you do have to hold the handle so that it doesn't automatically open into a passer by to shut it I just press on the brake like this look B come on now if I wanted to do it differently I could just pull up on this switch and I'll show you now by shutting the passenger door without having to reach across tole pip one other thing I want to show you about the doors is look you got frameless Windows a that's just so cool go have a look from further away I love cars when you can put both windows down you don't have the frame dividing them Coupe now let's see what space is like here in the back of the Spectre obviously it's a twodo coupe so you have to move the front passenger seat out of the way yeah as twodo Coupes go it's not particularly difficult to get into the rear I think if you were on the large side you might struggle but adults will be okay check out knee room so this seat will go back to my driving position knee room is fine foot space come look at the foot space that's really good as well and Headroom it's a bit tight people over six foot might struggle but I do like the fact that these seat backs are quite reclined so it's comfy back here and like in the front it's just a luxurious place to be with all the you know shiny bits and pieces the lovely bits of trim oh incidentally you can have this in a kind of Starry effect yeah we got some storage into here which is a good job because there are no door bins at all you got your two USB C's there for charging your mobile phones we got cup holders under here oh that feels expensive yes lovely cup holders and then you got your climate control buttons here and more metalness comfortable enough for a twodo coupe oh and look got ice fix anger points there now I actually fitted a babysit into this car and it was easy enough to get it in the problem was trying to get to the eyes fix ankle points because these flaps are slightly offset to the middle so you end up stretching the flaps not to get to the actual mounting point but my little daughter Grace absolutely loved traveling in the back of this rolls though she has left her mark look grubby child por prints I think that if she was a bit older she might have gotten her mother's nerves a bit by pressing this button here really handy for adults but children might use it to just alter the seating position of their parents like that there you go you know that's going to happen now let's check out the boot you have 380 L of space and to put that into context a Volkswagen golf's boot is the same size obviously with the Volkswagen Golf you have the added practicality of been able to fold the seats down which you can't in here still you do have it lined with lovely carpet and I think it's large enough to fit a man in it man be careful not to scratch the paint workor go on do you reckon there's room for me in there uh yeah that's I'd rather there wasn't but might be D that sounded Sinister um do I can fit in there as well how are we going to do this top to tail sorry Rolls-Royce please let me a car again Louis and you can shut the what I'm not sure this is the right way round especially if you fart go for it leis J we going to fit oh it we fitted once that test complete you can't fit two men in there oh and actually yeah jump out a second James oh oh hold me legs right try not to scff the paint work watch yourself watch your belt on the the paint and the shiny bits and don't forget your glasses actually very nice James right so that's where you have your storage cables and rubbish and mini cheddar I think they're Graces it's okay though because we do have some more storage in the front underneath here being an electric car you have a wonderful front boot it's obviously under this rather expensive feeling metal cover up right oh wait a minute um doesn't look like it's meant to be a front boot so looks like we got some more mini cheddar here I didn't put those there anyway that brings on to five annoying things about the Rolls-Royce Spectre sometimes when you're parked on a slight angle like I am now the door Motors won't work so you have to do it all manually and it's a big old heavy door look it's not operating when I press the brake to shut it let just try again no look door Drive restricted it's not that much of an angle the climate control system in this car is a little bit quaint but you could say it's Antiquated because rather than setting an exact temperature and the car just gets the car to that temperature for you you have this dial here so hotter or colder now in the front they're split so you can mix and match the temperature the upper part of the car and the lower part the only thing is though it doesn't actually work that well if you have like upper hot and lower cold you never really get the top half hot and a top half cold likewise the other way around if you really want it very hot or very cold you do have to slide them both together I mean I should be thankful that we don't have buttons all p in the menu on the screen but it just doesn't work that well for me and then there's the blower fan speed because yes I know they probably want diffuse air in a Rolls-Royce but yeah look at that it's a little bit soft sometimes you just want to be blown hard and this car won't do it for you rolls-royces are all about luxury and comfort and again that extra mile to make their car seem more refined than any other normal vehicle yet they somehow haven't managed to fix the creaky brakes that you get on many electric cars especially from the rear brakes I've listen to this it does it just the same as the cheapest electric car you shouldn't have it on a Rolls-Royce I can just about accept it on some cheap daer spring or something like that but a rollsroyce come on you got some very thick windscreen pillars which do create a bit of a blind spot but that's not the worst bit because you sit quite low that plus the position of these rather large door mirrors do create a worst blind spot and I've noticed it's really problematic when you're approaching a roundabout and you want to filter straight onto it but you need to look to your right to make sure there's no cars coming from the side so have a look at this I'm going to disappear ready I've gone where am I nowhere to be seen absolutely nowhere to be seen I'm actually here hello hello crazy many electric cars in emit a synthetic noise to make it for the fact they don't have a normal engine noise and this Rolls-Royce is no different they're not convinced by the noise that Rolls-Royce have gone for listen it's the kind of noise that they use in thriller movies just before something bad is about to happen so it sort of makes it feel a bit tense which is the exact opposite of what a Rolls-Royce should be about at least you can turn it off by pressing a button on here and that brings on to five good things about this car because there are some noises I do like such as this the indicator click it's like the tick of an expensive clock the Lambs W mats in this car so thick and luxurious oh kind of makes you want to go barefoot though I wouldn't go barefoot as the driver not for safety reasons just because the design of the mat for the driver sort of weirds me out I've been staring at it thinking what then what does that remind me of I don't know what it is s of reminds me of a gorilla bare chest that a gorilla has and they're like furry elsewhere definitely is for the Spectre Rolls-Royce have now redesigned the spirit of ecstasy of is slightly hello how you doing her wings are now slightly more back swept to reduce drag cuz every bit helps an electric car it's also illuminated though you can't see it in the daylight so come and have a look down my top sounds Sinister but there we go have a look can you see get in there it's a bit rude is it oh oh get out you filthy bugger do you see that also as before another Rolls-Royce products you can make the spirit go away you can make it return and of course if some grubby Thief tries to steal it that happens you can get the car with rolls-royce's famous Starlight headliner so it has over 5,000 individual LEDs and you can have any Star constellation you want so a lot of people would choose the one over wherever their main residences I say main cuz obviously they're going to have a few properties this one is apparently the constellation over the Goodwood Factory one of the cool things about this is that you get these occasional shooting stars and they're really handy if you got young children you see I went on a long journey in this cold my daughter Grace and instead of having to play I Spy for the entire journey I just got to play a game shout out when you see a shooting star and it kept to entertain the whole way P rolls the specters cameras sensors and satinav data is linked to its suspension so when you're driving down the road it can gauge the surface and if it needs to slacken off the dampers to make it just absorb the bump a little bit better also it can decouple its anti-roll bars when you're going straight so that they don't cause the car to rock from side to side when you go over a bump and when you go into a corner they'll lock back up again so it keeps it nice and flat in the bends and also it can alter the damping and air suspension on each side of the car to keep it nice and flat through the turns and we'll 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just click on pop out Banner that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video one of the problems with driving something like this Rolls-Royce BR smaller Villages is the sheer width of it so it's over 2 m excluding the door mirror so people do have to pull over to get out of your way let me just bring up the cameras cuz I do not want to scrape oh this is not good but I'm not enjoying this you sit quite low as well so the view out and KN where the corners of the car are is a little bit tricky okay well I do think I've got away with that by not having too many cars coming in the other direction oh no wait for me please I'm in the Rolls-Royce thank you fellow electric car driver I'll tell you what though while there might be moments of concern when driving through a village most of the time it's super relaxing so quiet in here the suspension is absolutely glorious this bit of road is horrible really in terms of the condition and yet this just just soaks at the bumps let's get the parking thing on see if I can find a parking space there we go start reverse parking let's see what it does in this situation is it really going to do this or is it just going to park it in the weirdest way possible as it figured out that there's a low curb it misinterpreted this as a parking bait don't crash into the wall I think it's as bad at parking as me this is just what it doing yay that's perfectly fine I think I better get out this space cuz I'm sort of blocking the road to be fair on this rollsroyce it did spot that as a Bay Park even though wasn't one and I did select for it to go into the bay so my fault not really the cars oh hello we got Bay Park in here now it wants to Bay Park in a here I've got someone behind me they're not going to move oh they are going to move sometimes people move for rolls-royce's oh I'm causing chaos here everyone's very cross at me I'm trying to park the car she's really annoyed don't know what she's going to do try not to crash into the Rolls-Royce it's wanting to part me here I cause chaos again again everyone's going to hate me can't blame them right this is oh is not happy I don't really know if this is a good idea once again I chose to do that it selected a space it wasn't the right space I mean I guess I can sort of Park here let's just get out of here so the length of this thing does affect the maneuverability even though I have rear axle steering it's not easy to do a uturn in a car this size i' normally do it here but I'm kind of a bit scuppered by this van so let's just try it up there so the Turning circles 12.7 M let's see if we can get around here definitely using my cameras will I get backround again absolutely no bluming chance I'm doing all the wrong Maneuvers here very close to that old perso and no I give this car one thing it might be big it might not have the best turning Circle but my gosh it's easy to turn this steering wheel and normally if I was getting into these kind of shenan guns in any other car I'd start to get a little bit stressed but this car is so relaxing I don't mind so much sometimes electric cars can have grabby brakes as the first part of your braking is using the regen it's just smooth smooth smooth one of the key problems with this car is parking it in a parking Bay because it's rather huge can I even get in here I think I can now I'm staying quite a bit away from that curb cuz I don't want to curb it obviously but then I think the issue I'm going to have is if someone gets out of that vehicle they're going to dig my door and if I try and get out of this oh dear I've ding that door you literally can't get out and wait the door system works makes it hard you can't like put your hand around it to get to it so what you have to do is be a little bit selfish everyone's going to hate on you guess you got to do what you got to do when you got a cars as expensive as this and paint workor that will be quite expensive to repair fortunately it wasn't the paint that hit the door of that Land Cruiser the land Cruiser's ass so don't worry about it it was this part here no marks on that another great facet of this car is its ability to just deal with speed humps not a problem if I didn't see it I wouldn't know it was there that that was insane I didn't feel it actually dropped down it's like it just lowered its suspension for me how can going over a speed H hump be so just damn pleasurable why do people buy sports cars why have I got a GT3 RS this is better I prefer driving this now let's see how this Rolls-Royce Spectre is transitioning from cruising very slowly in town to accelerating up to speed remember we' got 584 horsepower so it should go pretty well 3 2 1 yep I think the way to describe that in Rolls-Royce terms would be adequate progress efficient progress maybe more than adequate it's sufficient you don't need more and it's exactly as much as you ever need so this car is clearly super relaxing but does it get a bit stressful when you encounter some Corners cuz of all that weight well o no it doesn't so this car hides its weight pretty well so that Tech which stops it leaning in the bends really does help so does the low center of gravity with those you know heavy batteries as low down as possible in the car just means that it stays pretty flat through the turns if you're going really quickly the front tires will become overwhelmed and it'll push on but if you're sticking to the speed limits it's absolutely fine and of course you got four-wheel drive traction so you can get your power down instantly to get you out the bendz now what I can do is go one pedal drive like this pressed it into B mode and it'll actually come to a complete stop so you can drive on the accelerator alone if you want to but that doesn't suit this car because as soon as you lift off the accelerator you do get some pretty strong regen breaking which isn't very Rolls-Royce whereas if you're just in normal mode it pretty much coasts just a little bit of regen breaking to mimic the engine braking you get from one of their normal v12s with an automatic gearbox but obviously the response from the electric motors is more immediate than you can get from the V12 engine rollsroyce says the Spectre will do n 60 in 4.5 seconds I'm I to test it for myself using my specialist timing gear to launch it there's no launch control it's a rollsroyce you just floor the throttle like this 3 2 1 go that is Progressive thrust it's not brutal but nor 6 4.52 seconds here comes the 100 mph Mark 9.99 beats the 10 seconds what's the4 mile 12.81% test from 60 MPH see how long it takes to stop it's a big heavy car 2.9 tons what is it going to be like at stopping now little bit of ABS but you hardly notice it it deals with it so well now I want to beat 35 M anything under 35 M will be good my figures are in feet so 108 ft let's get the old conversion up 33 M that's really impressive this thing delivers performance but in a very Rolls-Royce kind of way while I do think that being electric makes the Spectre quieter and smoother you got to remember that this is a luxury item and a bit like a watch with a proper mechanical movement is a luxury good I kind of think that the V12 engines just feel a bit more luxurious reason being you can just appreciate the engineering that goes into them no one else can make an engine as smooth as rolls-royce's V12 I mean you can rev it with a coin on it and it won't even fall over it's insane whereas making an electric motor quiet and smooth anyone can do it it's not so special there's another thing as well if this did have a V12 in it it would probably go as far on a full tank as this one will go on a full battery the only difference being that to fill it back up again will take a lot longer than this and if you can afford a Rolls-Royce Spectre time is obviously money so then should you avoid this car should you consider it should you short list it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well I almost want to say go right ahead and bik cuz I absolutely love it but I'd love it even more if it had a V12 engine so for me it's actually not my favorite Rolls-Royce I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know what you think of it in the comments below if you want to watch some more videos I picked a couple out for you there I think you'll like just click on those windows to watch them or if you haven't done so already make sure you subscribe to this channel you can do that just by hitting the Carwell logo there simplethis is the new Rolls-Royce Spectre and could it be a bit like when David Beckham met Victoria Adams you know a match made in heaven you see what you've got there is the luxury of Rolls-Royce combined with silent effortless luxurious electric propulsion or could it work out a little bit more like when Brad Pit hooked up with Angelina Jolie and turned into a bit of a disaster well in this video we're going to find out whether the rollsroyce Spectre is more Posh and Beck or brangelina now to do that what I'm going to do is check out the exterior design talk you through the interior so that's a shame see how practical it is sorry Rolls-Royce please let me a car again I'm going to tell you what's good about this car what's not so good about this car it's a little bit soft I'm going to take it for a drive everyone's going to hate me and of course I'm going to launch it to see how quick it is from not to 60 M hour that is Progressive thrust I'm also going to get into a few scrapes with it as well yeah I'm out Watson you're watching carwow let's start this video by talking about the design of the Rolls-Royce Spectre it's a wide car but they haven't overdone it with design features very simplistic very elegant I really like the look of these protruding tail lipes less get on the fact that they have condensation in them let's see if the other one does as well oh dear let's let's move on around the side quick quick quick quick quick anyhow got to say this OB paint looks amazing or they wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea I like it though I like the big wheels as well they start at 22 in these are the 23s and I love rolls-royce's thick center cap so they actually stay upright when the car is driving along now just check it out inside profile it looks beautiful and huge it measures 5 1/2 M long and I love the coach line so this is painted by Human by hand and just check this out check this out that lines up perfectly absolutely perfectly it's insane love the shiny bits of trim around the windows these are the biggest doors on any rolls look at that absolutely massive and if you want you can have this silver Bonnet it's quite nice with the silver Bonnet at the front here you have the daytime running lights on top the main headlight unit below I think that was a design feature that was first started on the citrum Picasso MPV but looks really good on this rolls and you got the widest Grill of any Rolls-Royce and oh yes that's actually hurting my fingers because that's real authentic metal not like a fake metal grill that you get on a Bentley what is fake though is this you don't need that Grill look car stick of truth I just put it in there quite gingerly there we go look it's blanked out behind there the grill isn't grilling the actual cooling of the battery and stuff is done through some vents in there which can open and close when the batteries need cooling speaking of which it's absolutely huge the battery pack on this car weighs in at over 700 Kos which means that even though this is like a coupe Rolls-Royce it's almost 250 kg heavier than the massive Rolls-Royce Phantom 4- seater limousine it's also got a very massive charging port flap and I would have thought that maybe it would have been like electrically operated rather than having to operate it by hand to open it anyway that brings me onto the battery itself the Spectre has a usable battery capacity of 102 KW hours and according to Rolls-Royce that's good enough for a range of 329 miles but I wanted to test that out for myself so I fully charged the car and the trip computer said that will give me a range of 2 271 Mi anyway I'm barked on my journey and it took me 261 Mi and I still had 11 M of range remaining which meant a total possible of 272 Mi on a full charge so it means that trick computer is pretty accurate and that I achieved 83% of rolls-royce's claimed range however things aren't that simple with these electric cars you see while the trick computer may get to a point where it says you're out of range with no Mars remaining you do often have about 10 or so extra Mars available as a safety net so if I was to include those you could say this call do over like 280 miles on a full charge before it will concave and in fact when you look at my average energy consumption of 2.8 m per kwatt hour multiply that up by the battery of 102 kwatt hours then you're looking at a real world possible range of about 286 Mi and interestingly the trick computer is now saying 291 Mi on a full charge also I should point out that most of my miles were done a Motorway speeds where electric cars aren't that efficient so it's not completely plausible that this car should be able to break the 300 M Mark if you're very very careful when driving it welcome to the inside of the Rolls-Royce Spectre and the first thing I want to show you is this the car is the very first Rolls-Royce to have fully digital dials but I think they've done them in a very sympathetic way that looks lovely doesn't it now you've got a main infotainment screen here which is based on the BMW system it's reasonably easy to navigate it's absolutely fine and then moving over here there's something you don't get on a BMW and it's the special Spectre graphic here and that this of like Galaxy thing going on now this isn't painted on these are loads of little holes that are like punched through some wood and behind there you have some lights so it's actually illuminated that is insane to what's also insane look at this that's solid metal their events feels so so expensive so do all the switches and buttons oh yeah that's satisfying Everything feels really nice to move and to touch wait a minute what's that apart from that oh no what's going on there so that's a shame so this is a real cheap feeding bit of plastic the kind of thing you'd expect to find on something like a daa not a Rolls Roy they tried to cover it up a bit by putting leather on the stalk and stitching it it doesn't really work cuz you don't touch that part you touch that part and actually the leather makes it look like something a little bit rude that I'm not going to mention there's another cheap feeling bit of material in here and it's the vanity mirror everything else is just lovely like the diffuse light from there this the grab handle the lighting area up here everything else that you touch it's just so gorgeous and special feeling me I love it I love the door handles up here and like the metal strip that you get and you just touch that as you reaching the door handle it just adds a feeling of luxury quality to this car one thing I find quite weird though is that you sit really quite low in it makes me feel short because the dash is quite tall and quite Bluff upright now you can of course jack up your sink quite a long way I thought that the actual electric motors in the seats would be a bit quieter see as this is a Rolls-Royce I me just check the windows that's better that's quiet the electric window motor is definitely quiet yeah like that you can also move the steering wheel of course that's not so quiet either is it h oh well let's check out storage spaces oh yeah this is all lined with thought it feels nice you got wireless charging there USB VCS and 12vt socket it EDG down there there's a little place here for your keys you got the controller there for the infotainment system if you'd rather rotate and push rather than touchy touchy on the screen back to the storage you got your cup holders there and just look at the damping on this oh that feels so solid and expensive really really nice let's check out the glove box oh nicely damped as well it's not the biggest but it's large enough oh I just have another G that as for the door bins well they not the largest I do have a bottle in here and let me just see if I can get a larger bottle cuz rollsroyce drivers still want to drink there we go look you can fit a large bottle in there I take it all back decent size can it fit the larger bottle this is make or break for Rolls-Royce oh yeah there we go this car's bound to be a roaring success now potential customers have breathed a sigh of relief there is one problem I actually find with these door bins you probably noticed it then they go back a little way so there's been a few times that I've been out in this car and I've like looked down there my wallet in there no it's not and I got out the car then I realized my wallet isn't with me so then I have to come back and just check down back there look look look look let me show you look phone can you see my phone no you can't it's gone in it it's disappeared no phone in there it's all the way back there oh do you know what can you hear that noise I've just hit the button to activate the seat massaging in fact there's so many options on this car in terms of seat massaging you can massage your lower legs your back your buttocks you can also alter all the heating of the steering wheel and the armrests and you can alter how the seating actually warms your body whether it's more on your legs or more on your back it's quite incredible really in fact the ability to completely Speck this car up and make it completely bespoke for yourself is also incredible so if you don't like this this kind of obene cream I do actually you can go for something completely different maybe louder maybe less in your face one last thing I want to show you it's the doors so to open the door I pull that and it'll open there and then to actually open it further I pull again and it opens electrically though you do have to hold the handle so that it doesn't automatically open into a passer by to shut it I just press on the brake like this look B come on now if I wanted to do it differently I could just pull up on this switch and I'll show you now by shutting the passenger door without having to reach across tole pip one other thing I want to show you about the doors is look you got frameless Windows a that's just so cool go have a look from further away I love cars when you can put both windows down you don't have the frame dividing them Coupe now let's see what space is like here in the back of the Spectre obviously it's a twodo coupe so you have to move the front passenger seat out of the way yeah as twodo Coupes go it's not particularly difficult to get into the rear I think if you were on the large side you might struggle but adults will be okay check out knee room so this seat will go back to my driving position knee room is fine foot space come look at the foot space that's really good as well and Headroom it's a bit tight people over six foot might struggle but I do like the fact that these seat backs are quite reclined so it's comfy back here and like in the front it's just a luxurious place to be with all the you know shiny bits and pieces the lovely bits of trim oh incidentally you can have this in a kind of Starry effect yeah we got some storage into here which is a good job because there are no door bins at all you got your two USB C's there for charging your mobile phones we got cup holders under here oh that feels expensive yes lovely cup holders and then you got your climate control buttons here and more metalness comfortable enough for a twodo coupe oh and look got ice fix anger points there now I actually fitted a babysit into this car and it was easy enough to get it in the problem was trying to get to the eyes fix ankle points because these flaps are slightly offset to the middle so you end up stretching the flaps not to get to the actual mounting point but my little daughter Grace absolutely loved traveling in the back of this rolls though she has left her mark look grubby child por prints I think that if she was a bit older she might have gotten her mother's nerves a bit by pressing this button here really handy for adults but children might use it to just alter the seating position of their parents like that there you go you know that's going to happen now let's check out the boot you have 380 L of space and to put that into context a Volkswagen golf's boot is the same size obviously with the Volkswagen Golf you have the added practicality of been able to fold the seats down which you can't in here still you do have it lined with lovely carpet and I think it's large enough to fit a man in it man be careful not to scratch the paint workor go on do you reckon there's room for me in there uh yeah that's I'd rather there wasn't but might be D that sounded Sinister um do I can fit in there as well how are we going to do this top to tail sorry Rolls-Royce please let me a car again Louis and you can shut the what I'm not sure this is the right way round especially if you fart go for it leis J we going to fit oh it we fitted once that test complete you can't fit two men in there oh and actually yeah jump out a second James oh oh hold me legs right try not to scff the paint work watch yourself watch your belt on the the paint and the shiny bits and don't forget your glasses actually very nice James right so that's where you have your storage cables and rubbish and mini cheddar I think they're Graces it's okay though because we do have some more storage in the front underneath here being an electric car you have a wonderful front boot it's obviously under this rather expensive feeling metal cover up right oh wait a minute um doesn't look like it's meant to be a front boot so looks like we got some more mini cheddar here I didn't put those there anyway that brings on to five annoying things about the Rolls-Royce Spectre sometimes when you're parked on a slight angle like I am now the door Motors won't work so you have to do it all manually and it's a big old heavy door look it's not operating when I press the brake to shut it let just try again no look door Drive restricted it's not that much of an angle the climate control system in this car is a little bit quaint but you could say it's Antiquated because rather than setting an exact temperature and the car just gets the car to that temperature for you you have this dial here so hotter or colder now in the front they're split so you can mix and match the temperature the upper part of the car and the lower part the only thing is though it doesn't actually work that well if you have like upper hot and lower cold you never really get the top half hot and a top half cold likewise the other way around if you really want it very hot or very cold you do have to slide them both together I mean I should be thankful that we don't have buttons all p in the menu on the screen but it just doesn't work that well for me and then there's the blower fan speed because yes I know they probably want diffuse air in a Rolls-Royce but yeah look at that it's a little bit soft sometimes you just want to be blown hard and this car won't do it for you rolls-royces are all about luxury and comfort and again that extra mile to make their car seem more refined than any other normal vehicle yet they somehow haven't managed to fix the creaky brakes that you get on many electric cars especially from the rear brakes I've listen to this it does it just the same as the cheapest electric car you shouldn't have it on a Rolls-Royce I can just about accept it on some cheap daer spring or something like that but a rollsroyce come on you got some very thick windscreen pillars which do create a bit of a blind spot but that's not the worst bit because you sit quite low that plus the position of these rather large door mirrors do create a worst blind spot and I've noticed it's really problematic when you're approaching a roundabout and you want to filter straight onto it but you need to look to your right to make sure there's no cars coming from the side so have a look at this I'm going to disappear ready I've gone where am I nowhere to be seen absolutely nowhere to be seen I'm actually here hello hello crazy many electric cars in emit a synthetic noise to make it for the fact they don't have a normal engine noise and this Rolls-Royce is no different they're not convinced by the noise that Rolls-Royce have gone for listen it's the kind of noise that they use in thriller movies just before something bad is about to happen so it sort of makes it feel a bit tense which is the exact opposite of what a Rolls-Royce should be about at least you can turn it off by pressing a button on here and that brings on to five good things about this car because there are some noises I do like such as this the indicator click it's like the tick of an expensive clock the Lambs W mats in this car so thick and luxurious oh kind of makes you want to go barefoot though I wouldn't go barefoot as the driver not for safety reasons just because the design of the mat for the driver sort of weirds me out I've been staring at it thinking what then what does that remind me of I don't know what it is s of reminds me of a gorilla bare chest that a gorilla has and they're like furry elsewhere definitely is for the Spectre Rolls-Royce have now redesigned the spirit of ecstasy of is slightly hello how you doing her wings are now slightly more back swept to reduce drag cuz every bit helps an electric car it's also illuminated though you can't see it in the daylight so come and have a look down my top sounds Sinister but there we go have a look can you see get in there it's a bit rude is it oh oh get out you filthy bugger do you see that also as before another Rolls-Royce products you can make the spirit go away you can make it return and of course if some grubby Thief tries to steal it that happens you can get the car with rolls-royce's famous Starlight headliner so it has over 5,000 individual LEDs and you can have any Star constellation you want so a lot of people would choose the one over wherever their main residences I say main cuz obviously they're going to have a few properties this one is apparently the constellation over the Goodwood Factory one of the cool things about this is that you get these occasional shooting stars and they're really handy if you got young children you see I went on a long journey in this cold my daughter Grace and instead of having to play I Spy for the entire journey I just got to play a game shout out when you see a shooting star and it kept to entertain the whole way P rolls the specters cameras sensors and satinav data is linked to its suspension so when you're driving down the road it can gauge the surface and if it needs to slacken off the dampers to make it just absorb the bump a little bit better also it can decouple its anti-roll bars when you're going straight so that they don't cause the car to rock from side to side when you go over a bump and when you go into a corner they'll lock back up again so it keeps it nice and flat in the bends and also it can alter the damping and air suspension on each side of the car to keep it nice and flat through the turns and we'll find out exactly how all of that works now to take it for a drive want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car while to have over 4,000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's registration to get an instant approximate valuation then if you want to proceed give us some more details and 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m excluding the door mirror so people do have to pull over to get out of your way let me just bring up the cameras cuz I do not want to scrape oh this is not good but I'm not enjoying this you sit quite low as well so the view out and KN where the corners of the car are is a little bit tricky okay well I do think I've got away with that by not having too many cars coming in the other direction oh no wait for me please I'm in the Rolls-Royce thank you fellow electric car driver I'll tell you what though while there might be moments of concern when driving through a village most of the time it's super relaxing so quiet in here the suspension is absolutely glorious this bit of road is horrible really in terms of the condition and yet this just just soaks at the bumps let's get the parking thing on see if I can find a parking space there we go start reverse parking let's see what it does in this situation is it really going to do this or is it just going to park it in the weirdest way possible as it figured out that there's a low curb it misinterpreted this as a parking bait don't crash into the wall I think it's as bad at parking as me this is just what it doing yay that's perfectly fine I think I better get out this space cuz I'm sort of blocking the road to be fair on this rollsroyce it did spot that as a Bay Park even though wasn't one and I did select for it to go into the bay so my fault not really the cars oh hello we got Bay Park in here now it wants to Bay Park in a here I've got someone behind me they're not going to move oh they are going to move sometimes people move for rolls-royce's oh I'm causing chaos here everyone's very cross at me I'm trying to park the car she's really annoyed don't know what she's going to do try not to crash into the Rolls-Royce it's wanting to part me here I cause chaos again again everyone's going to hate me can't blame them right this is oh is not happy I don't really know if this is a good idea once again I chose to do that it selected a space it wasn't the right space I mean I guess I can sort of Park here let's just get out of here so the length of this thing does affect the maneuverability even though I have rear axle steering it's not easy to do a uturn in a car this size i' normally do it here but I'm kind of a bit scuppered by this van so let's just try it up there so the Turning circles 12.7 M let's see if we can get around here definitely using my cameras will I get backround again absolutely no bluming chance I'm doing all the wrong Maneuvers here very close to that old perso and no I give this car one thing it might be big it might not have the best turning Circle but my gosh it's easy to turn this steering wheel and normally if I was getting into these kind of shenan guns in any other car I'd start to get a little bit stressed but this car is so relaxing I don't mind so much sometimes electric cars can have grabby brakes as the first part of your braking is using the regen it's just smooth smooth smooth one of the key problems with this car is parking it in a parking Bay because it's rather huge can I even get in here I think I can now I'm staying quite a bit away from that curb cuz I don't want to curb it obviously but then I think the issue I'm going to have is if someone gets out of that vehicle they're going to dig my door and if I try and get out of this oh dear I've ding that door you literally can't get out and wait the door system works makes it hard you can't like put your hand around it to get to it so what you have to do is be a little bit selfish everyone's going to hate on you guess you got to do what you got to do when you got a cars as expensive as this and paint workor that will be quite expensive to repair fortunately it wasn't the paint that hit the door of that Land Cruiser the land Cruiser's ass so don't worry about it it was this part here no marks on that another great facet of this car is its ability to just deal with speed humps not a problem if I didn't see it I wouldn't know it was there that that was insane I didn't feel it actually dropped down it's like it just lowered its suspension for me how can going over a speed H hump be so just damn pleasurable why do people buy sports cars why have I got a GT3 RS this is better I prefer driving this now let's see how this Rolls-Royce Spectre is transitioning from cruising very slowly in town to accelerating up to speed remember we' got 584 horsepower so it should go pretty well 3 2 1 yep I think the way to describe that in Rolls-Royce terms would be adequate progress efficient progress maybe more than adequate it's sufficient you don't need more and it's exactly as much as you ever need so this car is clearly super relaxing but does it get a bit stressful when you encounter some Corners cuz of all that weight well o no it doesn't so this car hides its weight pretty well so that Tech which stops it leaning in the bends really does help so does the low center of gravity with those you know heavy batteries as low down as possible in the car just means that it stays pretty flat through the turns if you're going really quickly the front tires will become overwhelmed and it'll push on but if you're sticking to the speed limits it's absolutely fine and of course you got four-wheel drive traction so you can get your power down instantly to get you out the bendz now what I can do is go one pedal drive like this pressed it into B mode and it'll actually come to a complete stop so you can drive on the accelerator alone if you want to but that doesn't suit this car because as soon as you lift off the accelerator you do get some pretty strong regen breaking which isn't very Rolls-Royce whereas if you're just in normal mode it pretty much coasts just a little bit of regen breaking to mimic the engine braking you get from one of their normal v12s with an automatic gearbox but obviously the response from the electric motors is more immediate than you can get from the V12 engine rollsroyce says the Spectre will do n 60 in 4.5 seconds I'm I to test it for myself using my specialist timing gear to launch it there's no launch control it's a rollsroyce you just floor the throttle like this 3 2 1 go that is Progressive thrust it's not brutal but nor 6 4.52 seconds here comes the 100 mph Mark 9.99 beats the 10 seconds what's the4 mile 12.81% test from 60 MPH see how long it takes to stop it's a big heavy car 2.9 tons what is it going to be like at stopping now little bit of ABS but you hardly notice it it deals with it so well now I want to beat 35 M anything under 35 M will be good my figures are in feet so 108 ft let's get the old conversion up 33 M that's really impressive this thing delivers performance but in a very Rolls-Royce kind of way while I do think that being electric makes the Spectre quieter and smoother you got to remember that this is a luxury item and a bit like a watch with a proper mechanical movement is a luxury good I kind of think that the V12 engines just feel a bit more luxurious reason being you can just appreciate the engineering that goes into them no one else can make an engine as smooth as rolls-royce's V12 I mean you can rev it with a coin on it and it won't even fall over it's insane whereas making an electric motor quiet and smooth anyone can do it it's not so special there's another thing as well if this did have a V12 in it it would probably go as far on a full tank as this one will go on a full battery the only difference being that to fill it back up again will take a lot longer than this and if you can afford a Rolls-Royce Spectre time is obviously money so then should you avoid this car should you consider it should you short list it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well I almost want to say go right ahead and bik cuz I absolutely love it but I'd love it even more if it had a V12 engine so for me it's actually not my favorite Rolls-Royce I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know what you think of it in the comments below if you want to watch some more videos I picked a couple out for you there I think you'll like just click on those windows to watch them or if you haven't done so already make sure you subscribe to this channel you can do that just by hitting the Carwell logo there simple\n"