► How does Rolls-Royce Spectre size up?us something we already know: cars are getting bigger. Anyone who takes an interest in classic cars knows this is true: if you’re the kind of person who stops in the street because there’s a Renault Fuego parked kerbside, then you’ll appreciate how dimensions have changed over the last 40 years. Older cars seem impossibly teeny now, with spindly A-pillars, low bonnets and toy wheels.
Wow, that’s quite a mental picture, isn’t is – the school drop-off looking like a truck festival, with kids climbing out of their articulated lorries. T&E points out that ‘the current EU maximum width applied to all vehicles, 255cm, was enacted to limit the expansion of buses and trucks in the mid 1990s – and was never truly intended for cars.’ In other words, no one foresaw that cars would keep growing and so no car-specific limit was applied.
Now, normally I would be sceptical about this. First, because the growth in car size hasn’t been linear over the years. In 1979, awas about 1.65 metres wide, almost exactly the same width as a Model T Ford from 1912. Cars have bloated over the last 40 years but that doesn’t mean the weight gains will continue.
However, you could say my normal scepticism became ‘Specticism’ last week , because I drove the absolutely humongous, one of the biggest cars I’ve ever driven. This electric super-coupe is absolutely gorgeous: so hushed and cosseting on the move, it’s like being trapped inside a 24-carat marshmallow. It accelerates like a muscle car and it steers surprisingly well too. It’s the best Rolls-Royce ever made, and proof that electrification suits some brands much more than others.
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