To be fair, the Spectre’s 0-60 mph time is hardly embarrassing. Officially, it’ll take just 4.4 seconds to hit sixty miles per hour: not bad at all for something with a curb weight not far off that of a Ford F-250 Super Duty. For Rolls-Royce, though, that sort of acceleration was an example of careful compromise.
In fact, the automaker modeled Spectre’s acceleration on how its existing V12 gas cars, like the Black Badge Ghost and Cullinan, perform when driven aggressively. “All other manufacturers are rocketing the car,” Dr. Mihiar Ayoubi, Director of Engineering at Rolls-Royce, explains. “We put an artificial delay into the electric drive, because it should feel natural. The car should accelerate waftably.”
Hang around Rolls-Royce engineers for a while, and you’ll hear words like “waftably” a lot. It’s the automaker’s preferred definition for how its cars glide over the road, almost like they’re flying.
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