If you’re a top exec for a major tech company it
goes without saying that you can afford the privilege of having luxury car
manufacturers build you highly-personalized cars. Google’s Vice President of
Engineering, Benjamin Treynor Sloss, also happens to be a major car enthusiast
and collector so he commissioned Rolls-Royce to build him a very personal Dawn
Black Badge. The car has been presented to him by the company’s CEO Torsten
Müller-Ötvös himself, with the delivery taking place on Saturday night at the
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
Created in collaboration with the Rolls-Royce
Bespoke Collective in Goodwood, Sloss’ Dawn features a reinterpretation of the
livery found on his and his wife’s racing cars — which include a Ferrari FXX-K
among other rare models. Rolls-Royce craftspeople reinterpreted the color
scheme (which includes the colors of the flag of Modena) the into the brand’s
design language, creating two new bespoke paint colors for the exterior.
The intense deep yellow has been named “Superflare,”
with the contrasting navy blue named “Pikes Peak Blue” due to the owner’s
interest in the legendary hill climb event. The bespoke Rolls-Royce rides on
unique 21-inch carbon fiber and aluminum wheels that also feature a flash of
Superflare yellow.
The color scheme carries on in the cabin, with the
seats, dashboard, tonneau cover and rear seat waterfall wrapped in Navy Blue
leathers accented with Bright Yellow seat piping, stitched RR headrest logos
and an infinity logo between the rear seats — a feature unique to Black Badge
models.
The yellow theme continues with a yellow flash on
the door cards, Bright Yellow pinstripe applied to the Piano Milori Blue wood
dashboard, and the two-tone steering wheel combining Navy Blue and Bright
Yellow. Modifications are rounded off by a Navy Blue leather-clad Aero Cowling
enclosing the rear seats.
Interestingly, the Sloss family already owns a
Rolls-Royce Dawn which is used by Benjamin’s wife Christine as a daily driver
and has clocked 13,000 miles (20,921 km) so far.
