It’s a long one but chapters are in there! An indescribable car that leads to a unique driving experience. Hope you enjoy this one! Thrilled we had the opportunity to test the Spectre
@KyleConner I guarantee you that 98% of the target group interested in purchasing a RR have NO interest in an EV version. Period. This thing is going to flop miserably. Oh, and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the name of a REAL group first fictionalized in the James Bond film series. What does that stand for? Go look into it. Airbus has the starlight ceiling available in their planes.
RR does not have real level 5. Real Autonomous driving is solved with lots and lots of driving data. Which they do not have because they only sell cars at low volume. What they call level 5 is just a glorified party trick. Not real self driving.
Found this on the Rolls Royce website pertaining to cellular reception: “Snap-in adapters are also available for selected mobile phones. These connect your mobile phone to your Rolls-Royce external aerial, which boosts reception and charges the phone’s battery at the same time.”
I have been obsessed with the Spectre since its announcement and was ecstatic to watch the first series of videos, overviews and on. This by far is the most in depth and practical I have seen thus far! Thank you! I am so excited to see you all enjoy it! (...and thank you for letting that lovely woman experience it too. A glimpse of a deam come true for her I'm sure!)
It's funny how everyone loves the rolls royce but hate the i7 front end when they look EXACTLY the same. The i7 crystal lights might even look nicer imo
Welp, there was a stated effort a while back to try and bring some focus to cheap EVs (Leaf seemed to be trying to kick that off). Since there hasn't been a lot more content in that regard, it appears his viewer metrics are steering him towards more of this kind of thing.
Everybody knows that EVs are the play things of the wealthy. They will always be too. There is a reason why the EV disappeared back in the early 1900s, and the ICE took over completely.
I'm not sure people are watching Out of Specs as a "buying guide" channel: it's more for the show (despite the poor editing and camera work). Spending 45 minutes to an hour on a Bolt review is sure to drive anyone crazy. And Kyle can be such a picky b**ch, getting angry at stupid details like the way a charging port door closes, that I frankly don't really take his opinions that seriously when I considered buying my EV (a Polestar 2). But he's entertaining, in an entitled, Starbucks drinking goofball !
@@rodneygrimonce you’ve done the Bolt & Leaf, there’s not much out there on the low end. Im sure we’ll see the model 2 on here when it comes out. Also: I can’t wait to see his review of the CyberTruck.
I honestly don’t understand what took them so long. I drove the 102 EX back in 2011. It was the first EV I had ever driven! My thought at the time was it made total sense. Range? Who road trips a Rolls! Super smooth, super silent and able for your chauffeur to run the AC with zero emissions while you plan to invade a small country inside. It was literally a no brainer. Still baffles me why they didn’t do it sooner. Sounds like from the order banks I was right.
I find it strange that RR expects 60% of sales to go to existing owners. I have the opposite feeling about this. Leaving this comment here to come back in the future to see if I was right. I think the Spectre will be a hit for people moving up from a lower segment.
It's a beautiful car. I feel like electric is perfect for this company. They can focus on the luxury interior and aesthetics. Throw out the poor gas mileage and expensive engine maintenance. That's the real reason most people want these cars.
While charging at EA in Naples, FL, a Spectre RR test vehicle pulled into the stall next to me. It’s a very long car. When asking driver what he was testing today, answer was “nothing, just charging it up.”
What Kyle said in the first 3min is exactly how I feel about our Lucid Air GT. People that own these high end vehicles don’t road trip for one and secondly don’t care. Not sorry!
Exactly, if you have the means to buy these kinds of cars, then chances are you likely are not road tripping very often and instead flying to most places.
I road trip my GT exclusively for the most part. Kid in college in SoCal and I’m in NorCal. That’s where my 8k miles came from. I also do care about spec’s because I am a tech gal
@@ProXcaliber That's what I don't really understand. If you have a super nice car that's just makes you smile all the time, why wouldn't you want to use it all the time? Since I bought my Model S, I'm looking for opportunities to drive it. I go on road trips just for the experience. And wouldn't want to fly, except maybe in a private jet.
@@andrasbiro3007 Well you see, when you have a Rolls Royce, you often want to be driven in it since the back is nicer than the front, in terms of comfort and features. There are cars that you drive and cars you are driven in, and often depending which Rolls Royce you get, you want to be driven in it. Now if it’s some other kind of super nice car then sure, you might want to drive. But again, it all also depends how you value your time, for some they may find that flying to a farther destination is better use of their time than driving to the same destination. I mean look at private jet flights where they sometimes literally fly within the same state.
Call me weird, but I like the umbrella thing. Very thoughtful. Especially if you live in Seattle, I don’t, I live in Texas, but my father lives in Seattle. And it always rains when I’m there.
I assume virtually all Rolls Royces are bespoke. There aren’t any cars sitting on the local Rolls-Royce dealer lots waiting for buyers. Unless the Rolls-Royce dealer is next-door to the local football pitch in England and they’re waiting for a football player to come out and buy one
So many horrible things about this car That chrome strip ubove the grill had stone chips in it already the cheap nasty chrome strip in the boot to stop scratches for loading unloading 2024 still pulling handles inside the car to open the bonnet 2024 still touching the paint on the car to open the charging/filling port when the doors are open how ugly does the factory sticker and all the door locks look they should have done something to make that edge on the doors look nicer the seats look awful the sheep skin matts look like a wash mitt all the stars remind me of a greasy office worker with dandruff all over his suit/shirt looks naff the lights on the back look like a cheap version of the 2019 Cadillac factory warning stickers on the sun visors ! I love the shape the front and the fact it car go hundreds of miles on electric
I doubt you care, you have a lot of views and seem to be doing well BUT, if you are open to feedback, here is a little. I notice that with every video I watch of yours, you come off as borderline sexist. You often times say things like - there is a guy that is going to road trip this car or, assuming that only men are buying the cars you are showing unless it is obviously meant for a family, and then you will assume the mothers out there are buying it to drive their kids around. You also never let anyone (of any gender) talk without you interrupting. You come off as someone that has no trust in anyone else to give quality feedback or talk about any car feature because only you would know the correct answer. These videos would be better if it was more collaborative and less of you mansplaing everything to your wife and friends. Your obvious frustration, when road tripping, with everyone is annoying and takes the fun out of watching the video, because it is easy to guess that you are worse off camera given what you leave in. I think you probably a super nice guy and people genuinely like you, and maybe you are far from sexist and treat people equally in your daily life, but from an outside perspective, this is what I see in your videos. You owe me nothing, and not least of which is a defense, you know who you are and how you want to live, but as a viewer it makes me skip your videos. I watched this one because I didn't see any other RR videos but it just reminded me of why I stopped in the first place. Take care
You always hear about RU-vidrs complain about they have no more ideas. One thing you will not see on Kyle Connors out of spec. Family of channels is a lack of ideas. Keep up with the good work. You never fell to bring us awesome content it seems like every single day.❤
47:57 A tight city space? That's like a main trunk road in Britain! Tight urban roads are the ones where you fold the wing mirrors to pass an oncoming vehicle. The really tight roads are the single track ones with passing places ever few hundred metres, and where you cannot open the car doors without hitting a wall or hedge. Thanks for the great review of what is a pretty impressive car for a BMW.
@@KyleConner questionable, it’s about the hours played not the miles driven. My f-150 with the B&O saw improvement at 10k and now sound excellent at 15k. It’s very hard to judge those system when the car is so close to new, great video btw that car is nice
@louisvenezia7422 Most audiophiles knew this thirty or more years ago, with the help of the experts from magazines like High Fidelity. Seems like a lot of the more esoteric knowledge has been somewhat forgotten.
I missed the first part. Ill go back and watch. Blonde'E was very interesting. Not exactly right on, some car salesman in her obviously. But overall it was a very nice review. Thanks
Seeing a Rolls at a charging station doesnt surprise me as much as that you found a charging station that actually works. Seems like 1 out of 87 actually work.
Big wheels are super annoying. If companies actually cared about efficiency and the environment, they would put the smallest wheels possible on the car to optimize range. Of course they put large rims on it.
I'd argue that the sound system is actually the biggest upgrade in this car. Someone who buys a Rolls likely IS also an audiophile, or at least used to good-sounding audio as a result of being not just rich, but wealthy. A lot of people have never experienced a proper live concert and the way it sounds in a theatre. Why? Because tickets are expensive for high-end classical/modern plays and concerts. Also: the COMPLETE AND UTTER LACK of cowl shake or any indication that you're even driving WHATSOEVER from the suspension is absolutely insane. And Francie hit the nail on the head at 58:10. That's EXACTLY what it's meant to emulate. That's why the doors are so heavy - the heft is to simulate a human person helping you out in a smooth, controlled, but firm fashion.
Do the doors not have a sensor built in to stop them from hitting anything even wh3n the handles are being fully pulled out ? I would think that they do.
I don't like the rear it looks like a hatchback and i don't like hatchbacks i don't think I'll be buying one if they come out with a convertible it might look better
It doesn’t look like a hatchback at all, apparently you have developed an aversion to any slopes in design due to old habits. i don’t like the rear lights a little, they look like alien elements on the body
I haven't seen a car that had a door that opens from the front since our 1939 Plymouth. After that the doors were made to open from the rear as it was too easy to open a door while the car was in motion.
Just wow. Had to sleep so could not see it all last night, but woke up early to complete it. Lots of great information as always that is not available from Rolls. Totally out of reach for me, but still worth 85 minutes of pure EV gold. Thanks for doing this service for all the EV geeks out there.
That's amazing. I owned 2 Rolls Royce 1969 silver shadows. After my test drive in a 2015 p100d it was all over. I sold them both & bought a Japanese chipped leaf. It is 9 seconds to 60 mph. But now i have my dream 🍒 red S 85d. Now i need to get my favorite car back 😂.
Rolls Royce are gigantic, heavy cars. They aren't sporty at all. They are designed for luxury. Going EV makes all the sense in the world as now they are heavy, quiet (silent) and not wasting so much fuel. Shame it doesn't make over 300 miles range. For its size, you'd think it would. I can't see "the rich" road tripping these things very far. Hopefully when Tesla opens up the supercharger network and adds CCS, everyone will be able to plan longer trips. But I'll be damned if I'm waiting out in the cold while a car is charging. I charge at home while I sleep. I don't do road trips. I'd use a MINIVAN.
A 2007 Rolls Royce Phantom with 49,000 miles is $110,000 on Ebay. Ghosts and Wraiths available under $100,000. So the question is: what will happen to the value of Lithium ion battery using RR vehicles when the depreciation curve hits?
The outside of the car is perfectly recognizable as a Rolls Royce, but many will confuse it with a Wraith. The interior doors are beautiful. But...the center stack? It looks so plain and boring.
Rolls-Royce doesn't like to provide detailed specs because RR cars traditionally aren't much better than a well optioned Mercedes or BMW when evaluated on paper. What separates a RR is HOW it delivers those specs and the overall tuning, and that can't be encapsulated by a single number on a spreadsheet.
@@FuncleChuckI own a 2022 Ioniq 5, thank you. And every dispenser at every EA site within 100 miles off here (2) is borked at 50 kw, no matter what the label on the machine says. Is it wrong to point that out? Even Kyle found complete EA stations borked along I-70 east of Denver on a recent drive. Was it wrong of him to point that out? Until the situation with EA, and other providers, improves, I will continue to complain. The charging situation in the US is a complete mess.
Kyle you need to head down to Tanger Outlets in North Charleston, SC they are installing some fancy looking Fast chargers. I think they were Varo chargers.
The motors have brushes that connects to the rotor and gives energy to the electric magnet on the rotor. IT is called WRSM or EESM so it is not a "induction motor". Renault use the same. Google WRSM motor.
Well, I really didn't understand very well what you said about the sound system. This Bespoke Audio system in Rolls Royce is literally the best systems in a car. It's as close to a studio as you can get in a car. The clarity, speed, transparency and instrument separation are simply fantastic, also the tonality is superb, very natural and realistic. In my opinion it is definitely better than Bowers & Wilkins. But most people just want a V-shaped sound with lots of bass and treble. But I understand your point here. Great video!
Does it have a hotspot? A hotspot would fix the phone connectivity problem but it won't fix the GPS problem. Hopefully the built in nav is good enough because Android Auto and Car play aren't going to work when your phone is in a Faraday cage.
Di am a fellow youtuber.Also, and I review cards my question to use.How did you go about getting rolls?Royce to lend you the car for the time that you have it.What were the steps
Well said dear boy! I agree who the heck really wants this thing? The target audience isn't interested at all. Perhaps a few tech wizards might be, but you can't sustain the brand on a few geeks at the top.
@dhyppyx SAME....this thing looks completely devoid of character, and soul. Exterior is slab sided and bland, ungainly even, interior looks like someone went to the local Pep Boys and bought their "accessories"! Horrid. Very ghetto ambience in the interior for sure, horrible.
Yes, paying 300k more for the RR soft furnishings, a soft ride and noise insulation. Maybe this will appeal to those who just want road status (rappers, influencers, football/basketball players), but as a vehicle it’s really no superior to the BMW. It also doesn’t work as a chauffeur-driven vehicle, 2-doors are totally impractical for that purpose. In sum: flashy (yet still dull), a weekend sunset cruiser and little else.
Generally nice, but I have issues. The software mainly. After driving a Tesla every other software feels like it stuck in the 90's. Another is the range. I would absolutely road tripping in this. The big advantage of this car is that the weight and cost are irrelevant. I would put in 200kWh minimum. Weight helps with the comfort anyway. I think I'll stick to the Cybertruck. Funny how similar it is in many ways, while being completely different.
Great review ! My only gripe is that you spent almost 2 hours with that incredible automobile & didn’t mention that incredible color 🤷🏾♂️. And next time put on a shirt with a collar & a nice pair of pants…you had 2 lovely ladies with you + it’s an RR…c’mon buddy 🤦🏾♂️👍🏾 !
Something isn't right. Charging this $600,000 Rolls Royce at a charging center amongst the plebeians? Unacceptable! Next you're gonna tell me you're out of Grey Poupon! I simply won't have it.
The automatic doors are not a new technology for Rolls Royce… They’ve been there since the first Goodwood Phantom, which was released in January 2003. Rolls Royce was making cars before even Elon was born. Get your facts straight before making such a review.
EV is naturally match with what buyer expects from RR, quiet first, smooth and with adquate power. I just don‘t like the hatch back styling which belongs to cheap Japanese econobox. That is the reason I held on my Drophead.
Maybe less talking and more active driving dynamics. Spent almost half the video in the charging bay, could have skipped that completely. Plus no information on the 0-60 mps. Actually boring tbh, but thank you anyway.
99.99% of RR customers wouldn’t care about the sound system. The tiny minority that do can change it and RR will do it for them. They are customisable that if you for example chopped a dead oak tree down on your property RR will use that wood inside your vehicle if you wish. I don’t think you know the RR brand very well tbh.
You simply got a BMW cause the eagle has landed just 60 years later when BMW bought RR as the prelimary end of operation sea lion. BMW got RR , VW bought the other one , Bentley. What the tanks did not achieve did the manufacturers of those .
They are sold out ? These Million Dollar EVs are selling like hot cakes ?? Ha ? So that’s a big deal ? So how many units are we talking - roughly - in a world with a population of approximately 8 Billion people.
