One of the most under-utilized automotive body styles is the shooting brake. And since there currently are no Rolls-Royce shooting-brake models, Dutch car design company Niels van Roij Design made one.
Well, actually, it made seven. Meet the Niels van Roij Design Silver Spectre Shooting Brake.
A shooting brake, essentially, is a two-door station wagon. It has coupe styling but with additional practicality, sometimes in the form of rear seats or an elongated trunk. It's not a popular way to design a car these days, but they're always special to see.
Niels van Roij Design's Silver Spectre Shooting Brake is based off a Rolls-Royce Wraith. From the A-pillars back, the Silver Spectre is all custom: The roof is made from one piece of carbon-fiber composite, the lengthened and custom side glass is trimmed in silver, and the back liftgate apparently takes design cues from "Anglian limousines of the 1950s and 1960s," according to Autoblog.
Inside, the Shooting Brake boasts the "world's largest Infinity Starlight Headliner" with a hand-woven spread of fiber-optic strands that make up almost 2,000 lights, the company said in an emailed press release.
Niels van Roij Design will only make seven Silver Spectre Shooting Brakes. Van Roij declined to disclose the price of the cars to Business Insider, instead saying that, "The price is on request for clients. Due to the vast amount of possibilities, it is near impossible to define a price to begin with, as it is distilled from the conversation with the patron and based on her or his personal wishes."
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