2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge Price Starts at $395K
The 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge debuts with a starting price in the $395K range and features a darker more sinister look. It is powered by a 6.75-liter V12 engine producing specs of 591 horsepower and 663 lb-ft of torque. The Black Badge Ghost also debuts what Rolls-Royce calls the dark side of Post Opulent design”. It is the purest and most technologically advanced Black Badge motor car yet. The model is currently available to order with a release date of early next year.
The Dark Side of Post Opulence
The Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge started a new design conversation in its relentless pursuit of minimalism and purity. Named ‘Post Opulence’ by Rolls-Royce designers, this aesthetic movement is characterized by reduction and substance. In service to this, exceptional materials are selected and celebrated while overt design is limited, intelligent and unobtrusive.
However, within this group of clients – who celebrate minimalism and material substance – a rebellious subset sought to create a disruptive expression of Ghost by permanently cloaking it in a shade so pure that its very classification as a color remains a subject of debate: black. Black Badge Ghost reflects these clients’ desires. It is the dark side of Post Opulence: minimalism in extremis.
Exterior
Clients are free to select any of the marque’s 44,000 ‘ready-to-wear’ colors or create their own entirely unique Bespoke hue for the Black Badge Ghost. To create what is the motor car industry’s darkest black, 100lbs (45kg) of paint is atomized and applied to an electrostatically charged body in white before being oven dried. The car then receives two layers of clear coat before being hand-polished by a team of four craftsman to produce the marque’s signature high-gloss piano finish.
Furthermore, the Spirit of Ecstasy and Pantheon Grille have a specific chrome electrolyte is introduced to the traditional chrome plating process that gives it a darker finish. Each of these components is also precision-polished by hand to achieve a mirror-black chrome finish before it is fitted to the motor car. Lastly, the Black Badge Ghost sits on bespoke 21-inch wheels. The barrel of each wheel is actually composed of carbon fiber and the wheels also feature the hallmark Floating Hubcap.
Interior
Advanced luxury materials have been meticulously created for the interior of the Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge. For example, a complex but subtle carbon and metallic diamond weave patter has been created by the marque’s craftspeople. The pattern is applied by hand to components in perfect alignment creating a three-dimensional effect. The Technical Fibre ‘Waterfall’ section of the individual rear seats receives the Black Badge family motif as well.
In addition, air vent surrounds on the dashboard and in the rear cabin are darkened. The Post Opulent principles of simplicity have also been applied to dramatic effect in the Black Badge Ghost timepiece design. For example. only the tips of the hands and the twelve, three, six and nine o’clock markers are picked out, in a subdued chrome finish, creating a remarkably minimal clock. Lastly, the Ghost Black Badge features the Illuminate Fascia with 850 stars on the dashboard.
Engine Specs
The 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge is powered by a twin-turbo 6.75-liter V12 engine producing sects of 591 horsepower and 663 lb-ft of torque. In comparison, it produces 28 horsepower and 36 lb-ft of torque more than that the standard Ghost. The powertrain has also received bespoke transmission and throttle treatments to further enhance the engine’s increased power. Power goes through a ZF eight-speed transmission to all four wheels.
Furthermore, the ‘Low’ button situated on the gear selection stalk unlocks Black Badge Ghost’s full suite of technologies. All 663 lb-ft of torque is available from just 1,700 RPM and gearshift speeds are increased by 50%. This delivers the Black Badge Ghost’s abundant power reserves with dramatic immediacy.
Price and Release Date
The 2022 Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost price starts in the $395K range. The luxury sedan is available to order now and has a release date of early next year.
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