ROLLS-ROYCE PRESENTS PHANTOM REGATTA: A TRIBUTE TO THE WATERS OF THE ENGLISH SOUTH COAST – AutoMart Canada

• Phantom Regatta: a one-of-one Phantom Extended, set to be
  presented at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed
• Evokes the waters of the English South Coast – the Solent and
  Chichester Harbour – within sight of Goodwood, including
  hand-painted ‘Watercolour’ Gallery artwork
• Bespoke Starlight Headliner inspired by the tidal currents around
  the Isle of Wight
• ‘Decking’ picnic tables finished in Royal Walnut and Black
  Bolivar, recalling the deck of a yacht
• Finished in Regatta Blue over English White, with 22-inch fully
  polished disc wheels
• ‘Eyeball’ air vents engraved with the coordinates of Goodwood
  House and the Home of Rolls-Royce

“Phantom Regatta is the work of our designers, engineers and
craftspeople at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood, inspired by the
waters on their doorstep. It brings the spirit of yachting – its
colours, materials, and sense of speed – into the calm of a Phantom
Extended. More than this, it shows what Bespoke at Rolls-Royce can
do: tell an elegant story in paint, leather, wood and metal, each
crafted by hand to the highest possible standard.”
Phil Fabre de la Grange, Head of Bespoke, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars presents Phantom Regatta, a one-of-one
Phantom Extended commission which pays tribute to the racing yachts of
the English South Coast and to the regattas they contest each summer
on the Solent – among them the historic Cowes Week. These stretches of
water, together with neighbouring Chichester Harbour, are visible from
the Goodwood Estate, where the motor car will be unveiled during the
2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed. They are also bound to the marque’s
co-founder, Sir
Henry Royce, whose beloved home, Elmstead, is located in the
coastal village of West Wittering, just eight miles away from the
marque’s present-day headquarters.

EXTERIOR: THE COLOUR OF THE COAST

The exterior of the motor car is finished in Regatta Blue, a deep
marine tone, over a lower body of English White, applied as a
hand-laid two-tone treatment that recalls the line where a yacht’s
hull meets the water. The motor car is set on 22-inch fully polished
disc wheels, their mirror surfaces recalling the polished steel
winches of a racing yacht.

INTERIOR SUITE: UNDER FULL SAIL

The interior colourway evokes a yacht under full sail: deep blue
water below, with white canvas above. The front is appointed in Navy
Blue leather; the rear suite is finished in Grace White, suggesting
sailcloth and wake. Seat and door piping, contrast stitching and the
steering wheel are presented in both tones, and the RR monograms are
embroidered in Turchese, the same turquoise as clear inshore water.

The veneer is Piano Milori paired with Open Pore Royal Walnut,
hand-finished in satin to the Waterfall, rear doors and picnic table
tops. Completing the picnic tables alone required around 120 hours of
precision craftsmanship. They are finished as a yacht deck, each
composed of 16 ‘planks’ of Royal Walnut, cut from the same section of
wood to ensure uniformity in the grain pattern. The ‘planks’ were laid
by hand from the centre outwards, mirroring the grain to achieve a
bookmatched effect. Between them runs a thin length of Black Bolivar
wood, just two millimetres wide and cut as one piece to avoid any
visible joins, in the manner of deck caulking.

INTERIOR DETAILS: MARINE CRAFT

The centrepiece of the interior is a hand-painted Gallery
artwork, which extends across the full width of Phantom Regatta. The
piece, named Watercolour, was created by the marque’s in-house artist
using specially developed paints on an open-pore wooden substrate. To
capture the movement of waves and open water, the artist created a new
blending technique, refined over two weeks across numerous test panels
as colours and application methods were trialled and adjusted to match
their vision for a faithful interpretation of the sea.

Above the interior suite, the marque’s craftspeople have created
a Bespoke Starlight Headliner. The pattern design comprises 1,307
hand-placed fibre optic ‘stars’ and is inspired by the swirling tidal
currents around the Isle of Wight. This exquisitely crafted reference
is complemented by Illuminated Doors.

The motor car keeps one detail hidden. Each ‘eyeball’ air vent is
engraved with a set of geographic coordinates, visible only when the
vent is tilted forward. The passenger-side vent includes the
coordinates of Goodwood House, 50°52’12″N 00°44’24″W; the
driver-side vent carries those of the Home of Rolls-Royce,
50°51’13″N 00°44’40″W. The two points sit within a mile of
one another, and together they fix Phantom Regatta to the place from
which it came.

Phantom Extended: WLTP combined: CO2 emissions: 353-365 g/km; Fuel
consumption: 17.4-18.1 mpg / 16.2-15.6 l/100km.