Rolls-Royce Black Badge Spectre: Infinity at your fingertips

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Spectre: Infinity at your fingertips
The Spectre has a sport mode and launch control.
David Linklater
Spectre is of course Rolls-Royce's first-ever pure-electric car. Black Badge is a new kind of sub-brand aimed at younger, more adventurous buyers (introduced on Ghost as a distinct model line in 2022, although there were individual Black Badge models before that). Don’t scoff. R-R has an age demographic most mainstream buyers would kill for: in the 40s, and that includes New Zealand. Put Spectre and Black Badge together and you get this beauty. The original Spectre has a paltry 430kW/900Nm, but with the Black Badge'...

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