2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn Concept Pictures

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The Dawn’s bodywork is 80% new compared with the Wraith on which it is based. Rolls says the berth has allowance for four adults to sit in comfort. The alone aftereffect exoteric locations from the Wraith are the doors and the grille surround.
Rolls says it has formed harder to ensure that the Dawn is as bland and quiet as added Rolls-Royce models admitting the absence of a anchored roof, carrying on the firm’s acclaimed ‘magic carpet’ ride.
The close says the Dawn is as quiet as the Wraith with the roof up, and as such is the quietest convertible on the market. The roof retracts in 21 abnormal at speeds of up to 30mph.
The company’s architecture chief, Giles Taylor, set out to actualize a car that was as admirable with the roof up as it was down, with the ambition of bearing “two cars in one”. The close looked to the 1952 Silver Dawn Drophead, the endure coachbuilt Rolls, for inspiration.
Rolls claims the Dawn is the a lot of rigid-bodied four-seat convertible on the market, something in allotment accomplished by a new abeyance arrangement with new air springs and revised anti-roll bars. Rolls is aswell talking up the activity of the Dawn acknowledgment to this abeyance system. The rear clue is 24mm added than that of the Ghost.

Powering the Dawn is the aforementioned twin-turbo 6.6-litre V12 acclimated by the Ghost. The engine produces 563bhp at 5250rpm and 575lb ft at 1500rpm and drives the rear auto through an eight-speed ZF automated gearbox, which links with the sat-nav to automatically pre-select the next adapted gear. The Dawn can get from 0-62mph in 4.9sec and ability a bound 155mph. Combined ammunition abridgement is 19.9mpg and CO2 emissions are 330g/km.

The Dawn is 5285mm long, 1947mm wide, 1502mm top and has a wheelbase of 3112mm, ambit broadly in band with those of the Wraith. It weighs 2560kg, some 200kg added than the Wraith. It is set to go on auction aboriginal next year, priced at about £250,000.

Q&A with Giles Taylor, Rolls-Royce Architecture Director

Is this a Rolls to drive or be apprenticed in?
“To drive. It’s modern, has air-conditioned ethics and a absolute sexiness. It’s a seminal moment for us, putting a car to the apple that celebrates La Dolce Vita.”

Has the Wraith admiring new customers?
“Yes. People are demography it actively as a adolescent person’s car. The boilerplate client age has appear down to 45. People no best see us as annealed and formal. I accept no faculty of abstemiousness in aggravating to accumulate the cast as a assertive something; I’m curating it to the buyers and responding to the market.”
Below are 2016 Rolls-Royce Dawn interior Concept Pictures: