The sky’s the limit! Rolls-Royce build £10million car – with a glass roof
The Sweptail was inspired by a yacht – and was built for one of its ‘most valued customers’
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- 16:27, thirty MAY 2017
- Updated 21:28, thirty MAY 2017
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Rolls-Royce has unveiled the world’s most expensive fresh car – a one-off yacht-inspired vehicle costing a staggering £Ten MILLION.
The Sweptail is the firm’s very first coachbuilt car of the modern era and is the result of a four-year project with one of its “most valued customers”.
Described as the “automotive equivalent of Haute Couture”, the Sweptail has the largest grille of any modern Rolls.
It has an uninterrupted glass roof which is believed to be one of the largest, and most complicated, ever seen on any car.
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The unique Roller is understood to have cost around £Ten million, which makes it the most expensive fresh road car ever built.
It has been built for an unnamed gentleman who is understood to be a connoisseur and collector of distinctive, one-off items including super-yachts and private aircraft.
Torsten Muller-Otvos, chief executive officer at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars said: “Sweptail is a truly magnificent car.
“It exudes the romance of travel for its own sake, and instantly places ‘Sweptail’ in the pantheon of the world’s excellent intercontinental tourers.
“Rolls-Royce’s history as the world’s leading coachbuilder is at the very core of its identity as the world’s leading luxury brand.
“Sweptail is proof, today, that Rolls-Royce is at the pinnacle of coachbuilding.
“We are listening cautiously to our most special customers and assessing their interest in investing in similar, entirely special coachbuilt masterpieces.
“At the same time we are looking into the resources which will permit us to suggest this unique service to these discerning patrons of luxury.”
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Rolls-Royce used the name Sweptail as a nod to the swept-tail of certain Rolls-Royces from the 1920s, which the masculine client admired so much.
BMW , which wields West Sussex-based Rolls-Royce, applied to trademark the Sweptail name towards the end of 2016.
The 20ft-long two-seater was unveiled in Lake Como and is understood to be fitted with a 6.6-litre V12 engine.
Rolls-Royce hasn’t exposed Sweptail’s spectacle figures, but it is likely to be able to accelerate from 0-60mph in less than five seconds and have a top speed of more than 150mph.
Giles Taylor, director of design at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, said: “Sweptail is the automotive equivalent of Haute Couture.
“It is a Rolls-Royce designed and hand-tailored to fit a specific customer.
“This customer came to the House of Rolls-Royce with an idea, collective in the creative process where we advised him on his cloth, and then we tailored that cloth to him.
“You might say we cut the cloth for the suit of clothes that he will be judged by.”