Rolls-Royce Dawn, a new benchmark in open-top luxury motoring, made its debut appearance in Bahrain recently following its first public appearance at the Frankfurt International Motor Show.

Euro Motors, the sole authorised dealership for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in the kingdom, showcased the beautiful vehicle to its esteemed clientele at an exclusive event held at The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain.

Commenting on the arrival of the super-luxury car to Bahrain, general manager of Euro Motors, Paul Yates, said: “The Rolls-Royce Dawn brings with it a unique aura that no other vehicle can offer and we’re privileged to provide our customers with the most social, uncompromised open-top motoring experience in the world. Since its global announcement in September, this beautiful new motor car has received an overwhelmingly positive response amongst our clientele and we are confident that it will be hugely successful in our market.”

A company statement said Rolls-Royce continues to live by the clarion cry of co-founder Sir Henry Royce to “Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.”

"The final part of that maxim – 'Accept nothing nearly right or good enough' has guided the Rolls-Royce design and engineering teams as they have worked to initiate a new age for open-top, super-luxury motoring. In a sector exclusively populated by the biggest of automotive compromises – the 2+2 seat configuration – Rolls-Royce accepted no compromise. And so, the new Rolls-Royce Dawn, the world’s only true modern four-seater super-luxury drophead, is born."  

The new Rolls-Royce Dawn stands apart from its stable mates, featuring 80 per cent unique body panels. Indeed such attention has been paid to ensuring this amazing new dawn for super-luxury motoring delivers on its promise, even the tyres that connect the new Rolls-Royce Dawn to the road are new, it said.

The Silent Ballet

Specific engineering and manufacturing attention has been paid to the creation of the Dawn’s roof. The roof of the Rolls-Royce Dawn delivers the silence of a Wraith when up and operates in almost complete silence in just over 20 seconds at a cruising speed of up to 50kph.

Working with a fabric roof configuration, the Rolls-Royce engineering team set themselves a challenging goal which they were unwilling to compromise on – to make the quietest convertible car in the world today. This quest for silence applied to all aspects of the engineering of the new roof and by extension the new motor car, the statement said.

The silent lowering of the soft top – dubbed “The Silent Ballet” by Rolls-Royce engineers – transforms the Rolls-Royce Dawn, delivering a true Dawn moment. In hero specification of Midnight Sapphire exterior and Mandarin leather interior, night becomes day as rays of sunshine burst forth, bringing the inside out, joining this social space with the wider world of possibilities.

It is safe to say that the new Rolls-Royce Dawn is the quietest open-top car ever made, it said.

“In the world of Rolls-Royce, day to day mathematical norms don’t always apply. That’s why I say in the case of the new Rolls-Royce Dawn, 2+2 does not equal 4,” says Giles Taylor, director of design, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Studying the open-top motor car sector, and specifically its high-value luxury niche, it became apparent to Rolls-Royce’s designers that customers were being short-changed. The myopic focus on one specific configuration – the 2+2 setup – was, in the view of Rolls-Royce, a compromise too far.

A 2+2 is a configuration with seating that favours the driver and passenger in the front leaving two smaller seats for occasional passengers or children in the rear. The result is a sector populated exclusively by open-top cars that Rolls-Royce would consider compromised and ‘anti-social’.

“At Rolls-Royce, we pride ourselves as creators of fine motor cars that also serve as social spaces,” comments Taylor. “The idea of creating a car like Dawn that can be used in comfort by only two adults on a day to day basis is anathema. In creating Dawn we have accepted no compromise to the comfort and luxury of four adults who want to travel together in the pinnacle of style.”

Contrary to media speculation, the new Rolls-Royce Dawn is not a Wraith drophead, the company says. "80 per cent of the exterior body panels of the new Dawn are newly designed to accommodate an evolution of Rolls-Royce’s design language and to encapsulate highly contemporary, four-seat super-luxury drophead architecture."

Roof down, the sexiness of the Rolls-Royce Dawn is even more apparent. From the side the steep rake of the windscreen, the swage line that flows over the rear haunches plus the high beltline that rises along the profile give the impression of effortless swiftness. The very same rising beltline wraps around the rear passenger cabin.

The deck itself is an amazing work of modern craftsmanship. Clothed in open-pore Canadel panelling that traces the horse-shoe shape of the rear cabin, it demonstrates the great advances that the craftspeople in the Woodshop at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood have made in wood crafting technology and techniques.

The wood on the deck, chosen by the customer to suit their individual taste, flows down the ‘Waterfall’ between the rear seats, and around the cabin clothing the interior door panels and enticing the owner to enter Dawn.

Deliveries on the new Rolls-Royce Dawn commence in the second quarter of 2016. - TradeArabia News Service