Summary
- Rolls-Royce introduces its Coachbuild Collection, starting with Project Nightingale
- Project Nightingale highlights elegance with a drop-top monolithic silhouette
- Limited to 100 and reserved exclusively for select clients with design affinity
Rolls-Royce is introducing its Coachbuild Collection program, one that will give clients infinite opportunities for a custom Rolls-Royce, even more so than before. Its first launch has been revealed as “Project Nightingale.”
Built on the “Architecture of Luxury” aluminum spaceframe and optimized for an electric powertrain like the Spectre, the Nightingale is a two-seat open-top masterpiece that leans heavily into Streamline Moderne 1940’s art deco aesthetics. The silhouette is monolithic, trading traditional cooling intakes for uninterrupted surfaces and a massive, meter-wide white Pantheon Grille carved from stainless steel up front. Carbon fiber accents and 24” wheels – directional and the largest ever fitted to a Rolls-Royce – give it a stance that is both grounded and aggressive. Yet the Project Nightingale is the same dimension as the Rolls-Royce Phantom, to maintain a familiar stature.
Inside, the “Starlight Breeze” suite steals the show with 10,500 individual “stars,” dynamically visualizing the actual sound-wave patterns of a nightingale’s song to tie it back to its name. The visualization, according to the brand, gives the Nightingale a yacht-like experience alongside the “central fuselage” profile. The “Piano Boot” also like a concert grand defines elegance, while other details exude “sheer, monolithic beauty,” according to the press release.
Project Nightingale is available by invitation only to clients with a deep affinity for Rolls-Royce design, and exclusive to only 100 units. Global testing kicks off this summer, with the first client deliveries scheduled to begin in 2028.
