Behold the Rolls-Royce Spectre 'Lunaflair'
One-off headed for the USA gets unique paint inspired by the lunar halo
Credit where it’s due to Rolls-Royce customers, they aren’t half creative with their commissions sometimes. The recent Boat Tail cars had demonstrated the considerable lengths that could be reached with combustion coupes and convertibles - now it’s time for the electric one. This is the Lunaflair Spectre, a one-off build based on Rolls-Royce’s EV that features holographic paint. Which took a year to develop. Because of course it did.
The car has been inspired by the lunar halo which, if you also didn’t know, is a colourful circle of light around the moon created by moonlight passing through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds. They then refract the light, making the techicolour effect, not dissimilar to light passing through a diamond apparently. Those commissioning a Rolls-Royce inspired by meteorology are hardly likely to be spurred into action by drizzle.
To put that inspiration into reality, the Spectre features a holographic paint finish to give that rainbow effect of the halo. Don’t you dare go calling it flip paint now. The result of 12 months of work, the Lunaflair’s finish features seven layers of lacquer (one of which is the pearlescent coat) infused with ‘fine flakes of magnesium fluoride and aluminium’ to make it really pop in the sun. Not the official R-R line, but you see the point - this thing positively shimmers. The Bespoke team even went as far as changing the application timings of the paint to get the desired finish right. The client themselves is surely going to be very happy indeed.
The Lunaflair has been inspired by a previous one-off Rolls-Royce, the Phantom Syntopia seen last year. That was Liquid Noir, so this car was to be ‘a light and luminous expression of the concept’. Rolls-Royce suggests that this cross-pollination of ideas, where one unique build can inspire another, ‘speaks to the power of Bespoke’. The interior really is like nothing else, though, the blue, white and pink (with Starlight Headliner, of course) intending to evoke the colours of the halo.
Any commissions that do want to follow in the footsteps of the Lunaflair won’t be too similar, however, as that paint that took a year will remain exclusive to this Spectre. No holographic Cullinans coming soon, basically. But bespoking a Rolls-Royce doesn’t have to mean a one-off, and there are many cars in the classifieds with unique elements.
See this Dairy Milk purple Cullinan, for example (maybe not the official name), complete with gold Spirit of Ecstasy, this stunning EWB Phantom, or this Ghost Black Badge with lurid Bespoke interior. As for a Spectre, while a one-off spec is pretty fancy, regular old dark green doesn’t look bad either…
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This here
houses things like coolant, other fluids etc and doesn't look any different from most modern ICE engine bays today.
Also, if ever there was a car that suited being an EV, this is it.
i) Rolls Royce used to say "nope, we're not doing that, it's vulgar"
ii) A lightly-used Spectre in a nice colour is already 80K under list.
Maybe these two thoughts are connected in some way. I dunno, but Rolls Royce holds absolutely no appeal for me.
This here
houses things like coolant, other fluids etc and doesn't look any different from most modern ICE engine bays today.
Also, if ever there was a car that suited being an EV, this is it.
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