Rolls-Royce has revealed the Spectre Series II, and the updated EV gets meaningful engineering upgrades alongside a raft of new interior options that push Bespoke craftsmanship to new extremes.
The headline numbers are genuinely impressive. Range is up 18-percent to 390 miles on the WLTP cycle, and charging times are down 14-percent.
Power rises to 442kW with 1015Nm of torque. If that’s not enough, the Black Badge version unlocks 500kW through Infinity Mode and a staggering 1100Nm in Spirited Mode – making it the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever built.
The design is unchanged, which I think is the right call (I loved the Spectre’s design when I first drove it back in 2023). It’s giant fastback silhouette is striking and always turns heads.
A new colour, Ethereal Blue, joins the palette, alongside new 23-inch forged alloy wheels with a faceted multi-spoke design.
Inside gets a major upgrade as well. The featured new material is Duality Twill – a rayon fabric made from bamboo, inspired by the bamboo groves near Sir Henry Royce’s old winter retreat on the Côte d’Azur. An interior using it can incorporate up to 2.6 million embroidered stitches using 10 miles of thread, taking around 25 hours to complete. It’s available in Lilac, Chocolate, Black, and a new Sage.
There’s also ‘Placed Perforation’ leather, which features precision-cut patterns punched into the hide to reveal hidden artworks beneath. The debut design, inspired by cloud silhouettes in moonlight, uses 78,138 individual perforations across three sizes.
Also new is Brindled Walnut veneer, which brings a tiger-stripe finish by combining walnut from non-fruiting trees with eucalyptus fibres from paper production. It’s sealed with a lacquer containing glass flakes, giving the surface the illusion of depth and shimmer.
The Black Badge version gets an Iced Black exterior treatment and a matte finish applied to almost all brightwork. The Pantheon Grille vanes stay polished, which stops the whole thing from looking too sinister (just sinister enough).
There’s also a new aviation-inspired clock, housed in a vitrine alongside an up-lit stainless steel Spirit of Ecstasy figurine.
Spectre was already Rolls-Royce’s second best-selling model in 2025, and I can see these upgrades being very popular.
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