---
title: "New Rolls-Royce Boat Tail Is a Coachbuilt Cruiser With a High-Tech Picnic Basket in the Trunk"
description: "The champagne fridge has been tailored to fit bottles of Armand de Brignac, specifically."
date: "2021-05-27"
modified: "2021-05-27"
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# New Rolls-Royce Boat Tail Is a Coachbuilt Cruiser With a High-Tech Picnic Basket in the Trunk

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Rolls-Royce, creator of the [$13 million, one-off Sweptail](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/10739/13-million-rolls-royce-sweptail-could-be-most-expensive-new-car-ever-made>), has unveiled its latest coachbuilt creation: the Boat Tail. It was commissioned by three very special RR clients and, as you can probably tell by the name and pictures, it's been made to look like a yacht because the rich are just that predictable. What, did you think it would mimic a Sea-Doo?

What's more, open up the nautically-styled wood panels at the rear of the Boat Tail and you'll find what [Rolls](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/36962/2021-rolls-royce-ghost-this-is-the-car-you-really-want-when-you-strike-it-rich>) calls a "hosting suite," or what regular folks would call a "kitchen cabinet." There's a double fridge for champagne, RR-branded champagne flutes, and a bunch of other wealthy-person-picnic paraphernalia I'm not fancy enough to know the names of.

![message-editor%2F1622125292402-p90423785\_highres\_rolls-royce-boat-tai.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1622125292402-p90423785_highres_rolls-royce-boat-tai.jpg>)
**Rolls-Royce**

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Keeping with the theme of "cartoonishly cliche rich person shit," the Boat Tail also comes with two dashboard *timepieces*—one for her, one for him—crafted by Bovet 1822 (Google it, you pleb) that can be taken out and worn as watches. Rolls-Royce says the clients are also really big into collecting pens because of course they are and have therefore placed a "particularly cherished" Montblanc pen inside a hand-crafted, aluminum and leather case inside this car's glove box.

(How hilarious would it be if Mitsubishi slapped a Timex logo on the in-car clock and threw a pack of BIC pens in the glove box of [every Mirage](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/30144/the-extremely-cheap-mitsubishi-mirage-is-headed-towards-its-best-sales-year>) or whatever as a "homage" to this?)

While Rolls-Royce hasn't really said much about what's underneath \*widely gestures with hands\* all this, it apparently has the same twin-turbo V12 as every other car Rolls makes. It's about two feet longer than the Dawn convertible at 228 inches, further solidifying that, yeah, this thing's a real vessel.

More notable than the Boat Tail itself perhaps, Rolls-Royce is also announcing that its Coachbuild program will become a permanent offering for the company going forward, meaning more bespoke and unnecessary creations like this one are very likely in the pipeline. The first tech bro to commission a Dogecoin-themed Rolls-Royce or anyone with enough gall to ask for a Sea-Doo-branded version of the Boat Tail complete with a chilled two-four of PBR in the back receives all of my admiration and respect.

![message-editor%2F1622125330670-p90423787\_highres\_rolls-royce-boat-tai.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1622125330670-p90423787_highres_rolls-royce-boat-tai.jpg>)
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## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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