The car, named ‘Elegance’, was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show this week.
The Rolls’s top part is painted in a dark grey, while the lower parts are a lighter shade – giving the car a two-tone effect.
And while it sounds a bit, erm, tacky, it’s actually surprisingly subtle. In the dark it looks like any other grey car – but when the light hits, it shimmers with thousands of tiny sparkles.
It’s the most expensive paint job Rolls-Royce has ever done, because it involved grinding up 1,000 real diamonds and working them into the car’s grey paint.
The diamonds (which the company was keen to point out are ‘ethically sourced’) give the Rolls-Royce Ghost a subtle sparkly finish.
Would you want one? (Picture: Rolls-Royce)
Rolls-Royce won’t reveal how much the paint job actually cost, beyond saying that it’s the most expensive they’ve ever done.
This is because the car was comissioned for a private buyer – so unless you’re prepared to commission one specially as well, you’re not getting your hands on it.
They did say, however, that the Rolls-Royce Technical Laboratories had spent two months working on the diamond paint.
In order to get the sparkle just right, technicians carefully examined the unique reflection and light-transmission properties of the diamonds.
Plus, they had to figure out how to include notoriously hard diamonds into the paint, while keeping it smooth to touch.
The paint was then applied, and an extra layer of lacquer was layered on during the hand-polishing stage.
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