Rolls-Royce is showing off a one-off version of the Arcadia Droptail

Rolls-Royce is the epitome of luxury cars – and none of them are cheap. However, anyone who takes the trouble to approach the coach building department should invest heavily. Because anyone who orders a car here hires a whole department for years. It costs.

The automaker’s latest design was discussed with the customer for the first time in 2019. Back then, they were just the first sketches, of course. It would be more than four years before the official handover in Singapore. During this time, the manufacturer has put thousands of hours into the smallest details that the naked (or untrained) eye would probably not even notice.

On one side there is wood. According to the manufacturer, the hard-to-process Santos rosewood required 8,000 hours before the individual components were as desired. The coating seems to have taken most of the time to protect the wood from various weather influences. This was important because the customer, who has been a secret, wants to use the car all over the world and different temperature and humidity levels had to be covered.

Standard Rolls-Royce: 1000 hours for protective coating

Obstacles arise that you wouldn’t even think of at first: Of course, using wood protection for motor boats was also an obvious choice for Rolls-Royce – until it became clear that this only works if the customer maintains the coating regularly. out. So the idea was discarded and a new solution was sought – in the end a completely unique color was found which was to be used only a few times. According to the company’s own information, this step alone took 1,000 hours and resulted in 18 different combinations.

The fact is that the new owner is now part of an exclusive club that includes only a few other people. There are currently only three series from the Coachbuild department: Sweptail, Boat Tail and three cars from the Droptail series, where Arcadia has now followed La Rose Noir and Amethyst.

About the price of that car and Rolls-Royce is keeping quiet about the buyer. Various media reports mention an amount between 20 and 35 million euros, and a similar amount has also been frequently suspected for other Coachbuilt vehicles. Rolls-Royce denied this when asked brightbut it does not correct the information either.