Few souls were waiting with bated breath for Rolls-Royce to confirm that development of a droptop Wraith is underway—we had a pretty good idea that already was the case—but the automaker has gone ahead and announced just that. Except it hasn't. In a statement, Rolls-Royce confirmed only that a new convertible is on its way, failing to specify what that model might be. The thing is, Rolls-Royce doesn't really need to be specific for us to figure out what its next alfresco model will be.
Currently, the British maker produces two lines of cars: The Phantom group—consisting of a sedan, a coupe, and a convertible dubbed "Drophead Coupe"—and the Ghost group, which currently is made up of the Ghost sedan and the Wraith coupe. Connecting the dots, the Ghost family's lone absentee member is—you guessed it—a convertible.
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Rolls-Royce's announcement even hints that the new model will borrow the Phantom convertible's squeezed-from-a-ruby "Drophead Coupe" descriptor: "We are currently developing an exciting and thoroughly contemporary interpretation of a pinnacle drophead tourer . . . " Given how the Wraith, which easily is the sportiest Roller in several generations, was described at its launch as having only a "hint of the noir," rather than its siblings' full-blown case of the old-school "noir," it's pretty safe to say that the Wraith soon will be dropping its head. How soon? The company promises the new model will arrive in 2016.
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