The Rolls-Royce Amethyst Droptail uses amethyst to decorate both the interior and exterior, and the interior and exterior wood surfaces are extremely elaborately customised, so it’s probably more expensive than the La Rose Noire Droptail – photo: Rolls-Royce
Within a week, Rolls-Royce has announced 2 of 4 droptail cars in its “super-custom” series, named La Rose Noire and Amethyst, respectively.
A year earlier the title of “unofficially” world’s most expensive new car was held by the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail, which cost around $25 million/unit. However, the Rolls-Royce Droptails cost much more than that, with each droptail costing about $37 million (VND 895 billion), according to estimates by Haggerty, a well-known US luxury insurance company.
This number is more than one and a half times that of the previous boat tail and has risen to a level similar to the price of expensive classic cars. With an amount of $37 million, users can buy 51 Rolls-Royce Phantoms, detailing the latest 2023 edition.
The Peninsula Hotel’s entire fleet of Rolls-Royce Phantoms is continually updated from year to year, but only consists of a maximum of 14 cars, which is less than 1/3 of the amount it would cost to buy the Droptail alone Is – Photo: Drive
If you like electric cars, users can spend the same amount to buy… 1,000 Tesla Model 3s to use one car per session for a whole year. Or if the need is only for a “daily use” car, they can buy 2,237 Hyundai i10s.
For example, outside the car market, the amount of money it would cost to buy a Rolls-Royce Droptail could feed a family of 3 for over 800 years (if you calculate 1 million VND/day) . Or they can even cover the Taylor Swift show at the 47,000-seat ballpark with VIP tickets.
Nevertheless, the Rolls-Royce Droptail’s unofficial new car price record still lags far behind the cost of the world’s most expensive classic car. That title is yet to change in 2022, when the Mercedes-Benz SLR Uhlenhout was successfully auctioned by the German brand for 135 million Euros (over 3,550 billion VND).
