Rolls-Royce chose the recent Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, to unveil a special project that’s been four years in the making. The Phantom-based ‘Sweptail’ was commissioned by a long-term Rolls-Royce customer, who wanted a modern car with elements of the classic coachbuilt cars of the 1920s and ’30s, as well as influences from luxury yachts.
The un-named customer, who has been described as a connoisseur and collector of distinctive one-off items, came to Rolls-Royce in 2013 requesting a coachbuilt special like those from the luxury carmaker’s past, but built on the latest Phantom platform.
HAUTE COUTURE
“Sweptail is the automotive equivalent of Haute Couture,” says Giles Taylor, Director of Design at Rolls- Royce Motor Cars.
“It is a Rolls-Royce designed and hand-tailored to…
