![]() ![]() Up there you have a better view through the cropped windscreen over that prodigious nose, plus better access to all the finery offered by the interior. It's cozy back there for sure, but the best seats are the two up front. Getting into the rear seats requires a bit of an awkward shuffle, but once you're back there it's a comfortable cocoon with plenty of room between you and a headliner perforated with fiber-optics to emulate a sparkling evening sky. The interior is likewise surprisingly compact relative to the exterior dimensions. Storage space overall is a bit limited, 13.4-cubic-foot trunk offering about as much capacity as a Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan. Yes, that feels more than a little wasteful, but then efficiency isn't what this is all about. There's nothing under there but a big metal plate embossed with a shiny Rolls-Royce logo. Popping the hood reveals not a gaping frunk nor a bundle of wires. In other words, there's no need for that long nose. This is, after all, an electric car, and though it features a whopping 584 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque delivered to all four wheels, that power comes from a pair of relatively tiny motors that slot in nicely between the giant, 23-inch wheels. Much of that length is found in the nose, again a nod towards Rolls-Royce tradition and probably the least sensible styling cue here. ![]() Thankfully, it casts a far more sultry, desirable shadow, and all that room means plenty of space for the 102-kilowatt-hour battery pack that should provide somewhere around 250 miles of range on the EPA testing cycle. That gives this coupe a more prodigious footprint even than a Cadillac Escalade. I can tell you that, as big as it looks in photos, the Spectre is even bigger in person: 18 feet long and 6.6 wide to be exact. It's the proportions, though, that are really striking, especially given this is a two-door. Not so with the Spectre, which does have a few unflattering angles (the hunched back is a bit ungainly from the rear, while the stacked headlights just look a bit odd to me), but on the whole manages to look fresh while staying traditional. That's remarkably good for a car with so many right angles, actually slightly better than the (admittedly taller) Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, which was so brutalized in the wind tunnel it came out looking hardly recognizable as a Mercedes. Despite that upright, Pantheon-inspired grille, the Spectre has an aerodynamic drag coefficient of just 0.25. ![]()
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