The Rolls-Royce Dawn and Rolls-Royce Wraith will go out of production in 2023 and are no longer available to order, confirmed company boss Torsten Müller-Ötvös.
Both cars, the Dawn a two-door convertible and the Wraith a two-door coupe, have reached the end of their planned production runs and will not be directly replaced as the company focuses its self-funded resources on developing the Spectre instead. two-door electric coupé, which is expected in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Müller-Ötvös said orders for the two-door pair were now closed for all markets after being pulled from sale for the US, but the nature of orders and the company’s waiting list means that it would be early 2023 before the final Wraith and Dawn models are launched off its Goodwood production line.
While not a direct replacement for the Wraith, the Specter would now play the role of a coupe in the company’s lineup, said Müller-Ötvös.
Rolls-Royce insiders say the company could have created an all-electric version of one of its existing models for its first electric vehicle, but it was important that such a car had an identity of its own and offered something unique to the Rolls range rather than being a powertrain option of an existing car.
Indeed, Rolls instead sees the Specter as a late successor to the coupé version of the seventh-generation Rolls-Royce Phantom, with the pair sharing a similar footprint and the Specter therefore having its own distinct positioning within the Rolls range.
On more everyday matters, Müller-Ötvös said the company would be able to divert production of its Russian-bound models to other markets before the blocking of exports to the country. Remarkably, he added that sourced Rolls wiring harnesses for his engines from a factory in western Ukraine had already restarted production after initially having to shut down after the Russian invasion, and that production n was therefore not affected.
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Source: www.autocar.co.uk
This notice was published: 2022-03-25 00:01:23
