Rolls-Royce: Spectre is typically a customer’s second RR in a *seven-car* garage

… second only to the Cullinan SUV, of course, and just ahead of the supernaturally good Ghost. Though the Spectre – a 10/10 car – was Europe’s best-selling RR of 2024. Well done, Europe.

There are puny Earthling, regular-headliner schleps, and then there are starlight-headliner-emblazoned, cruising-in-endless-Dubai-sunshine, 576bhp Rolls-Royce schleps.

Rolls-Royce claims up to 329 miles of range from the Spectre’s 102kWh, twin-motor drivetrain, which one British owner is putting to good use “regularly”.

This RR client commutes – commutes, in a Rolls-Royce! – some 250 miles from Slovakia to Prague. “They take particular pleasure in the electric motor car experience,” explains Rolls-Royce, “having swapped coffee stops at traditional fuel stations for an elevated pause at a renowned café with a fast charger.”

We’re in ‘elevated pause’ territory, folks, not ‘long wee stop and cold petrol station sandwich’.

And both of these Rolls-Royces form part of – on average – a client’s seven-car garage. Literally one for every day.

That’s a little down on the UK’s annual average of around 7k miles, but still – 4k in a Rolls-Royce is a lot. Can’t imagine they’d be a stressful 4k either.

And as you’d expect, you won’t find a shiny new Spectre hanging around waiting for a Leaf to vacate a public spot – “the vast majority charge at home”, said Rolls-Royce.

Which Rolls-Royce is taking to mean the Spectre’s a ‘driver’s car’. Apparently only a quarter of owners bring a passenger along for the ride, “reflecting the enjoyment of driving this uniquely potent and agile motor car for its own sake”.