Rolls-Royce's apparent transformation from a car manufacturer to a fashion & luxury house gathered pace with the recent announcement of the latest bespoke Droptail build and the production of a limited run of special-series Ghosts, created ‘in tribute to the world of fashion’.
The ‘Arcadia’ Droptail is the third of this brief run of coachbuilt cars, each created to a theme of its own. Some of the bullet points from the car's specification are eye-popping, even by Goodwood's usual standards: the wood sections took 8000 hours to create; the car features the most complex clock face in Rolls-Royce history for which assembly alone took five months; the timbers are protected with a bespoke lacquer created to protect them in tropical extremes of climate, which took 1000 hours of testing to perfect.
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