{"id":101497,"date":"2026-08-11T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/101497\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:30:14","slug":"rolls-royce-brings-two-wild-one-off-cars-to-monterey-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/101497\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Brings Two Wild One-Off Cars to Monterey 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article SummaryRolls-Royce is hosting clients at a private Pacific-facing villa during Monterey Car Week 2026 instead of showing on a public stand.The Black Badge Cullinan Series II was hand-painted in collaboration with French artist Cyril Kongo, turning the SUV into a rolling art piece.The Black Badge Ghost “Golden Era” tribute pairs gold exterior and cabin detailing with an embroidered illustration of the V12’s internal architecture.<\/p>\n

Rolls-Royce is returning to Monterey Car Week with a private villa overlooking the Pacific and two customer commissions that show how far the automaker\u2019s Bespoke division will go for the right client. The marque isn\u2019t bringing a new production model to California this year. Instead, it\u2019s using the week to hand over two one-of-one cars built for individual North American buyers, both revealed at the Villa rather than on a show stand. The setup fits Rolls-Royce\u2019s pitch to Monterey\u2019s collector crowd: less spectacle, more private theater.<\/p>\n

A Pacific-Side Retreat Built For Deals, Not Crowds<\/p>\n

The Villa returns as the center of Rolls-Royce\u2019s Monterey program, described by the company as a home rather than a hospitality tent. Clients get direct access to designers, Bespoke specialists and Rolls-Royce North America leadership throughout the week, alongside private events and design consultations. It\u2019s also where the two commissions below actually change hands, following what Rolls-Royce says were months to years of back-and-forth between each client and the artisans at Goodwood.<\/p>\n

Nick Keen, President and CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars North America, framed the week as a showcase for what Bespoke can actually produce<\/a> when a client has the budget and the patience for it.<\/p>\n

Cullinan Series II Gets The Graffiti-Art Treatment<\/p>\n

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The first car is a Black Badge Cullinan Series II<\/a> built with Cyril Kongo, a French artist known for moving graffiti into fine-art galleries. Rolls-Royce describes the exterior as hand-painted with dynamic colors and bespoke detailing, effectively treating the Cullinan\u2019s bodywork as a canvas rather than a paint job. The interior continues the theme with custom color treatments and finishes pulled together by what the company calls its Bespoke Collective.<\/p>\n

Rolls-Royce is positioning this one squarely at collectors who want a car that functions as an art object first, transportation second \u2014 a shift the brand says it\u2019s seeing more of among newer clients.<\/p>\n

Ghost \u201cGolden Era\u201d Is A Love Letter To The V12<\/p>\n

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The second commission, a Black Badge Ghost<\/a> dubbed \u201cGolden Era,\u201d is a more literal tribute. It\u2019s finished in Gold Crystal over black with gold-infused paint, a hand-painted \u201cV12\u201d coachline running the length of the car, gold bonnet wakelines and gold-painted bumper inserts. Inside, the V12 theme shows up as embroidered artwork on the seats, door pockets and rear center armrest \u2014 and, for the first time on a Rolls-Royce, an embroidered technical illustration of the V12\u2019s internal architecture built into the rear interior panel.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the spec sheet reads like a checklist of everything Bespoke can throw at a single car: Technical Fiber veneer infused with microscopic gold flakes, engraved eyeball vents, a gold-inlaid ashtray, a Starlight Headliner with gold shooting stars, and a gold engine plaque honoring the current V12. Rolls-Royce says it\u2019s a tribute to more than a century of V12 use at the brand, though the current Ghost\u2019s twin-turbo 6.75-liter unit is a long way removed from the engines that started that streak.<\/p>\n

Both cars are one-offs, so neither will show up on a dealer lot or carry a public price. What they do signal is where Rolls-Royce wants the Bespoke conversation to go: not options-list customization, but full-on commissioned art, delivered somewhere its regular customers will never see it \u2014 a private villa on a bluff, not a convention center floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article SummaryRolls-Royce is hosting clients at a private Pacific-facing villa during Monterey Car Week 2026 instead of showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20731],"tags":[21065,1238,26046],"class_list":["post-101497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rolls-royce","tag-rolls-royce-cullinan","tag-rolls-royce","tag-rolls-royce-ghost"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117078542516278589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}