The all-electric luxury car boasts a total of 659 battery-powered ponies, and almost 800 lb-ft of torque
- The 2025 Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge is now the marque’s most powerful factory offering ever
- The EV, the first to wear the Black Badge trim, has seen its wick cranked to 659 horsepower
- To boot, as with most Rolls-Royces, the customization options are all but endless
Outside that setting, the Black Badge Spectre continues to make the same power as a standard Spectre, a machine surely now being rapidly fed to an industrial-grade wood chipper by its owners, since it is no longer top of the heap and thus worthless.
Peak torque is just shy of 800 lb-ft, sitting at an indicated 1,075 Nm. If you do happen to read any headlines touting “four-figure torque,” rest assured it’s in reference to that newton-metre metric, not the measure of pound-feet with which most North Americans are familiar. This grunt, too, is courtesy of a new selectable driving mode.
This is, by the way, the first time the Black Badge level of branding has been foisted upon an electric Rolls, a badge often seen as an invitation to younger customers instead of the marque’s traditional demographic. The brand figures people attracted to this audacious thing will appreciate a high level of customization, so items like an illuminated grille (in one of five colours); 23-inch wheels; headliner with 5,500 points of star-like light; and umpteen upholstery and trim combinations are all on tap.
Who’s buying this thing? Rolls says the typical customer will have this machine as part of a seven-car garage, seeing themselves as a type who can “select a motor car to suit every occasion.” Your humble author could also be counted in that demographic, but only if the plethora of motor cars can include a 2013 Hyundai Elantra with 350,000 km on the odometer; and a box-bodied Crown Vic with a nasty rod knock. Or perhaps I’ll take the worn-out Cherokee today.
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