These daring experiments formed the Rolls-Royce of as we speak.
Over 20 years in the past, Rolls-Royce opened a brand new chapter in its wealthy, century-long historical past by establishing a brand new house within the historic location of Goodwood, England, which itself is hallowed within the automotive world. Since then, its lineup has outlined automotive ultra-luxury, with unimaginable design that defines each trendy excellence and basic attraction, and as Rolls-Royce celebrates its one hundred and twentieth anniversary, the celebrated producer seems again on the previous 20 years, and particularly on the experimental ideas that impressed the fashionable Rolls-Royce automobiles.
Using the “EX” suffix for experimental Rolls-Royce fashions in started over 105 years in the past in 1919, with the 1EX. It additionally designated the 45EX in 1958. Nonetheless, using the suffix was revived within the Goodwood period of Rolls-Royce in 2004 with the creation of the 100EX. Made simply after the beginning of manufacturing for the Phantom that kicked off the Goodwood period, the 100EX featured a V16 engine as a two-door convertible. Yacht-inspired styling set the experimental mannequin aside as a machine made for ultra-luxe driving pleasure, and it will definitely grew to become a manufacturing mannequin because the Phantom Drophead Coupé within the late 2000s.
In 2006, Rolls-Royce unveiled the 101EX, one other experimental mannequin that featured a two-door physique just like the 100EX, besides with a hard and fast roof. That mannequin grew to become the Phantom Coupé, and was succeeded by the Wraith, and now the Spectre, Rolls-Royce’s first all-electric mannequin. The Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé additionally served as the premise for the Sweptail, a surprising one-off coachbuilt fee that is still an unimaginable masterpiece as we speak.
The 200EX was revealed in 2009 as a completely new imaginative and prescient for Rolls-Royce, introducing a extra trendy, driver-friendly, smaller, and casual mannequin, made for a youthful demographic. That mannequin would, in fact, be launched as a manufacturing mannequin as effectively: the Rolls-Royce Ghost. 102EX, revealed in 2011, often known as the Phantom Experimental Electrical, was a one-off Phantom that sported an all-electric powertrain, envisioning a future of electrical mobility for Rolls-Royce’s ultra-luxury automobiles. The improvements it introduced and the info it was in a position to collect was instrumental within the improvement of the eventual electrical manufacturing mannequin from Rolls-Royce: the Spectre.
103EX was unveiled in 2016 as probably the most formidable and distinctive experimental automobiles from Rolls-Royce. Its hyper-futuristic design features a passenger cabin known as “The Grand Sanctuary,” with a settee as an alternative of conventional seats due to autonomous driving and a digital assistant inside the automobile known as “Eleanor.” Regardless of its roots previously and its basic ideas for craftsmanship, design, luxurious, and opulence, Rolls-Royce boldly goals in the direction of the longer term inside the automotive trade, particularly with its wealthy heritage of experimental “EX” fashions.
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