To honor the beauty of nature during the solar eclipse, the 2024 Rolls-Royce Ghost Ékleipsis has a striking copper paint job with Mandarin orange accents. The inside of the car is decorated with a beautiful piece of art on the dashboard, a watch with jewels, and a Starlight headliner that looks like an eclipse. There will only be 25 made, and they have all been sold. Many places in the Western Hemisphere can see a partial sun eclipse on October 14. In places like Dallas, Texas, the moon will likely block out up to 80% of the sun during the natural event. Rolls-Royce made the Ékleipsis Private Collection, a one-of-a-kind Ghost with a Black Badge difference to honor the occasion. Only 25 new cases are being made, all already taken. Lyrical Copper is used to paint the outside of the Ékleipsis. This color makes the Ghost look sad when there isn’t enough light, but it sparkles when there is. “Recalling the intense pulses of sunlight witnessed as the eclipse progresses,” Rolls-Royce says, the front bumper and brake calipers are a dramatic orange color called Mandarin. The Ghost’s shoulder line has a delicate, hand-painted Mandarin coach line with a dot pattern representing the “change from light to dark.” People know Rolls-Royce for its Starlight topper, which has hundreds of tiny lights built into the car’s roof to look like the night sky. When the doors close and the engine starts, an animation shows 192 LEDs around a circle of 940 “stars,” representing the stars that become visible during the day when a complete eclipse happens. The “stars” are the corona of light that peeks around the moon during an eclipse. In the video, a total solar eclipse lasts for no more than seven minutes and thirty-one seconds. After that, all of the LED stars light up. Rolls-Royce says that it took a whole year to make this video. A stunning art of 1846 laser-etched “stars” can be seen on the dashboard. It took one technician 100 hours to build the show. The fantastic watch on the left, which has a 0.5-carat diamond set into the case, was inspired by the “diamond ring” effect, in which a single light point shows up just before and after the moon crosses in front of the sun. The two-tone chairs’ black leather has more than 200,000 holes in a pattern that stands out. These holes show Mandarin accents underneath. Rolls-Royce also added lit door sill plates and Mandarin piping to the umbrella usually found behind the doors. Plus, the Ghost Ékleipsis has a one-of-a-kind cover for your car inside. The buyers didn’t say how much they paid, but we can guess it was much more than the Ghost’s base price of $351,000.
