How Rolls-Royce Is Made

Rolls-Royce luxury features aren’t simply the result of some automated assembly line. That wouldn’t meet the high, handcrafted standards that the brand demands. From the intricate stitching to the Starlight headliner and the hand-painted pinstripe, every element of a Rolls-Royce is the result of painstaking work by engineers, designers, and some of the most elite craftspeople in the world.

Rolls-Royce Luxury Features Take Work

The Goodwood campus employs 500 designers, artists, and other craftspeople. They go to work every day in a facility that’s gone to great lengths to minimize its impact on the environment. The campus is a beautiful place that features 400,000 plants and trees on its 42 acres and that utilizes the latest renewable and recycling technologies.

A luxury vehicle like the Rolls-Royce Phantom takes two months to build. The bodies arrive from Germany. They’ve been pre-assembled there and checked several times to meet exacting standards of construction.

The vehicles are then fitted with power trains, as they receive their interior work and exterior trim. This work is done by craftspeople with years of experience in their arts. In fact, many apprentices train at Goodwood for years in order to one day take over specific crafts.

The Master Craftspeople

Goodwood features a leather shop where where the car’s exquisite leathers are measured, stretched, and marked. Expert sewers use double-needle sewing machines to bring the interior together. A single Rolls-Royce takes between eight to nine hides for all the interior appointments. All the leathers must come from the same batch. This ensures consistency across the board.

The wood trim itself takes a month to complete. Even the specific trees that contribute to each element are logged and tracked in case any element needs replacement.

Features like the Rolls-Royce Starlight headliner might seem machined, but the beautiful interior roof feature is actually constructed by hand using more than 1,300 fiber-optic strands. These are aligned to portray the night sky that shone over Goodwood on New Year’s in 2003. That was the factory’s opening day.

Traditional Art, Futuristic Tech

These craftspeople work with the honed skills they’ve trained years to refine, and they utilize a great deal of modern technology to do it. It’s a marriage of traditional art and futuristic technology – much like Rolls-Royce vehicles themselves.

You can visit the factory to help appoint your car of just to see how exactly all this artistry is combined into every single vehicle. Rolls-Royce luxury features maintain a very high standard, and that takes genuine care and effort.