Ride With Me- The All-Electric 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre Is BY FAR the Best Rolls Ever Built!

Hey guys, come ride with me for what we're calling a road trip review over at TfL Off-Road. I do these trail guides, now I'm applying that same concept to a road trip review and today I've got a very special vehicle, I mean very special. Now behind me is the AL&A Casino which is just on the other side of Oregon and Washington and we're going to go in this very special vehicle to the Cedar Creek Grist Mill mouthful which Cole who's behind the camera and who grew up here tells me is a wonderful place to visit and along the way we'll talk about the car that I'm driving and this is indeed a special car so Cole you want to show them what we're taking? Yep, it's the brand new Rolls-Royce Vector. This is an all-electric Rolls-Royce, two-door, it's as long as a yacht and this is definitely the Rolls that you want to drive and not be driven in because well it's a two-door and it's 40 and it's all electric and it's very expensive. It starts at about $420,000 and this one with about $160,000 worth of options goes up to about $560,000. For instance this two-tone paint, I'm going to say that's what a $25,000 option if I'm right. So yeah it ain't cheap but then again luxury and true luxury comes at a price and by the way interesting color combination chartreuse and I hope I'm saying this right peony peony yeah not my choice but maybe I'm not well maybe I'm not wealthy enough to understand how these two color combinations work. Now of course Rolls-Royce can't be bothered to have you close the door so all you do is step on the brake and the door closes which is wonderful or you hit that little button and my videographer's door also closes and to start it up you hit the start button and the car is magnificently silent it is in fact well you'll see one of the most silent cars I have ever had the pleasure to be in and I think look if you're gonna build the ultimate Rolls-Royce this would be it because from the start Rolls-Royces have been about really two things luxury and quiet because the two go hand in hand and what's more quiet than an electric powertrain it certainly isn't the BMW source 12-cylinder which you know some of the other Rolls-Royces have it is this powertrain now we're looking at 102 give or take kilowatt hour battery and when fully charged this car according to Rolls-Royce will have a range of about 290 miles which seems uh you know perfectly adequate Rolls-Royce will tell you that the people who buy this if they have to drive farther than across town are probably going to take a helicopter I mean this is not somebody's main form of transportation but it is the kind of car that if you are taking it across let's say London or New York or LA you kind of hope for a traffic jam because it is so incredibly quiet in here and so incredibly luxurious I mean when you're in this thing there is nothing wrong with the world that a lot of money can't solve now it does drive heavy and that's because it is heavy and we're talking 6,500 pounds but then again Rolls-Royces have always been heavy this is not this is kind of the opposite exact opposite of a Lotus right where you want to add lightness here you just add weight because it doesn't really matter that you know this thing's heavier than a sperm whale it just makes the ride that much better and with electric motors and 577 horsepower and almost 650 pound foot of torque it's actually surprisingly quick so let me kind of just give it a little bit of the beans 0 to 60 in four seconds according to Rolls-Royce which is pretty spectacular now let me tell you a little story as we head out on this road trip I came to Portland and we're not that far from Portland we're about half hour south right north make that north we're about half hour north of Portland thank you Cole and I came here for the first time with Jeep about 10 years ago and I fell in love with this area I think it's because coming from Colorado everything is just you know brown we live in a high arid desert here everything is just incredibly green and I'm sure the colors in the fall must be spectacular I see some leaves are already turning and so I was just amazed at just how beautiful the weather was and I came here must have been in August so I told my wife I said honey I've never been to a more beautiful place than Cannon Beach in Oregon let's go and spend Thanksgiving in Portland and then take a ride down to California to see the sequoia trees along the coast and then come back up through Eugene and just spend a week and she was like great never been to Oregon love to see it and what I didn't know at the time which Cole knows is this Cole right this is kind of more typical weather I think you get what three months of really beautiful weather in the summer yeah three to four and then it all turns to this all the time in fact when I was here on Thanksgiving today at least it's warm by Thanksgiving it was much colder and raining sideways so we had one day of no rain and the rest of it was just absolutely miserable absolutely wet and so I'm very thankful that it's just sort of kind of partly cloudy I think that's fair wouldn't you say Cole? But the roads are spectacular the geography is interesting I mean you know we're close to the Columbia River if we were going the other direction we'd be going to the ocean and I can see why a lot of people came here and just fell in love with it and settled it certainly is a really cool place to live and Cole was telling me who grew up here that he kind of misses this for how long do you miss this Cole before you get tired of it two days he says he gets two days and then it's back to Colorado so have you been to this mill? Yes. He said he's been to this mill what what makes it so special Cole? He says it's along the river and it's just cool is it the Columbia River? No. No not the Columbia River that's a big river covered bridge cool I wonder for what crashing a river with the weight of this car it's certainly a real possibility all right let's kind of get back to some of the other interesting features there's just you know a lot of bespoke parts to this car so pretty much everything you see here you could pick in whatever color you want I suspect in whatever material you want and you can make it as somber or as loud or as gaudy as you want because you know that's what Rolls Royces are about and that's uh I think that's you know a good thing I think if you have let's say a hundred million dollars and you know life is short why not spend it on something that rides like a cloud and accelerates like a steam train on steroids well how about this now usually when I'm doing these reviews over at TFL Off-Road I say let's bring up the music and let's show a little bit of the road we seem to have gotten stuck behind uh well one of the peons you know a van sorry I shouldn't say peon one of the little people it just brings out the worst in me it just does I'm you know it just it's what happens when you know when you're in a Rolls Royce I have to fight it and uh anyway let's uh let's uh let's just show you the road show you the countryside and then we'll come back as we get closer uh to the old creek grist mill did I say that right even Cole doesn't oh cedar creek Cole this better be spectacular I'm gonna have you uh I'm gonna have you kicked down in the downstairs or to the back of the rolls all right I'm sure you guys know that BMW uh owns Rolls Royce so I'm thinking there's got to be at least a little bit of the BMW DNA in the driving characters because of this so let's give it a little bit of the uh electrons and see how it does it's actually really good suspension is soft without bottoming out which is nice the brakes are definitely confidence inspiring the steering is a little numb but nevertheless fairly direct and the only thing I hear is every so often when I floor the accelerator the sound of tires and a little bit of electric motor rumble you know is this a miata in these twisties no of course it isn't but it's no slouch I'm actually quite impressed by how well this vehicle does it feels big I think it helps that I drive a lot of trucks because I'm pretty comfortable with wide vehicles you know it's hard to forget that for the price of this you could have well almost uh well definitely um five raptor hours if you wanted and probably money left over for a maverick but then again you know the raptor hour wouldn't be nearly as quiet or nearly as prestigious right you show up in this thing and people are gonna say who is that person and they'll be very disappointed when it's a z-list youtube minor celebrity who does car reviews they'll probably be expecting like one of the kardashians to come out of this thing but you know if I had 100 million dollars this would certainly be on my shopping list and oh my god this is a beautiful road what I love about this part of the world both Oregon and Washington is you just have a lot of non-flat non-straight non-boring roads oftentimes in my business when a manufacturer invites you to go review a car in Miami you know that that car probably isn't I'm gonna be kind here uh the most dynamic of vehicles because there are really no good roads around Miami but look at this hill oh my god you can get air cold zero to 60 in four seconds oh sorry sorry I could I could hear the uh I could hear the uh aristocrats out there saying Roman you were driving that like an uncouth uneducated unworthy and uninspired chauffeur and they may be right about that but it's not often that I get to be not it's not often that I get to be driving in the lap of luxury uh which this is all right well let's go back to a little bit more uh beautiful scenic road and then I think we're only uh let's see how far seven minutes I'm just gonna call it the mill Cole because I don't know cedar creek grist mill is that right did I get it right that time I got it right and I was just gonna call it the mill oh my gosh that is so spectacular now I'm used to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado uh but that is quite the view thank you Cole for bringing me out here now you may be wondering Roman how do I get from the casino here to the mill and the answer is obvious you have your butler and put in the navigation system or your man or woman servant or whatever you call your personal assistant because I suspect that's how I was doing it now here's the crazy thing once upon a time Rolls Royces were the domain of very rich very aristocratic in a lot of cases very wealthy old people but now Rolls has become maybe because of influencers or YouTube videos the domain of much younger people I mean this is whoa sorry luckily I've got plenty of power to move ahead but I was saying now these things are kind of the ultimate flex if you're a Instagram influencer or a TikToker they're just kind of like a Rolex right they're just never never go out of style and the next generation of people kind of like Harley's is now looking at the Rolls Royce as being cool and like I said the ultimate flex for me at Rolls Royce for my generation there's always kind of synonymous with kind of stodgy old rich people but now man these things are pretty um for lack of a better word um bratty is that a word you use called bratty you don't use that is that what the youngers use this isn't the brat car he's laughing at me I'm trying I'm really trying Cole I need to connect with the younger demographic because you guys got all the money to spend and YouTube likes that all right we're two minutes away from the mill and I'm really hoping that this was well worth the trip even if the mill isn't all that spectacular this road is just phenomenal and you know you read about some of the best driving roads in the world and you're always told that it's you know Angeles Crest or someplace in California I think it's you know Oregon Washington I wouldn't uh I wouldn't hesitate to come here in any sports car and just enjoy a beautiful day in the summer mind you on the road all right we're almost to the mill I already forgot what it's called Cole sorry oh here's the covered bridge can I take uh over three thousand over three tons across this thing cedar creek watershed it doesn't say I couldn't so hold on Cole we may fall in no we didn't fall in that's good so uh three and a half tons uh no problem I take it this is the uh mill that we uh came all the way to see right let's go check her out all right park simple power simple door should open by itself somehow and of course look Cole if it's raining take this out this is a no-cost option dude the uh Rolls-Royce umbrella which of course you would probably never use if you actually own this thing you'd have servants that would uh use it for you so this is really cool let's check it out wow cedar creek grist mill is that 1876 yeah yeah this is and uh pray tell uh what is grist Cole he has no idea either is it something people ate and ate in 1800s like gruel and grist it doesn't sound very appetizing oh that is spectacular look at that wow yeah well worth a trip well guys uh thank you very much for joining me on this uh come drive with me I hope you've enjoyed uh this format of review let me know in the comments if you like it because if you like it I'll do more of them if you won't I won't do more of them uh as always uh thank you to the ADA's the automotive video awards and Rolls-Royce that allow me to bring this beautiful vehicle to this beautiful spot and remember go to altfl.com for more news views and real world reviews see you next time ciao