2025 Rolls-Royce Black Badge Prices in Germany
2025 Rolls-Royce Black Badge: The Darker Side of Bespoke Luxury
The Black Badge marque represents the audacious, darker, and more potent alter ego of Rolls-Royce’s core models. For 2025, Black Badge is not a standalone model but a distinct, highly exclusive, and performance-oriented sub-brand that can be applied to the Rolls-Royce Cullinan, Ghost, and Wraith (while remaining stock lasts). It caters to a new generation of patrons who desire a more assertive, dynamic, and rebellious expression of Rolls-Royce luxury.
Black Badge vehicles are defined by bespoke engineering enhancements, a distinct aesthetic characterized by darkened elements, and an elevated sense of dynamism. They are designed to offer a more engaging driving experience while preserving the legendary “magic carpet ride” and unparalleled refinement.
2025 Rolls-Royce Black Badge Price List in Germany
Black Badge models command a significant premium over their standard Rolls-Royce counterparts, reflecting their enhanced performance, unique aesthetics, and heightened exclusivity. The prices below are estimated starting figures for the German market for the 2025 model year, before any extensive Bespoke additions. The final price of a commissioned Black Badge model will be considerably higher, as clients routinely invest substantial sums in personalization.
These prices are highly indicative starting points for the German market. Due to extensive Bespoke customization, the final price of an individual Black Badge model will always be considerably higher and unique to each client’s commission.
Black Badge Philosophy: Enhanced Power and Darker Aesthetics
The Black Badge philosophy revolves around two core pillars:
- Elevated Performance: Black Badge models receive bespoke engineering enhancements to their powertrains, chassis, and braking systems. While maintaining Rolls-Royce’s hallmark “effortless performance,” these vehicles offer increased horsepower, more torque, and a more responsive, dynamic driving character. The transmission and suspension are often recalibrated for a sharper, yet still supremely comfortable, ride.
- Assertive Aesthetics: Visually, Black Badge models are transformed by a darker, more menacing aesthetic. Key features include:
- Darkened Exterior Elements: The iconic Spirit of Ecstasy figurine, Pantheon Grille, front bumper intakes, side frame finishers, boot lid finisher, and exhaust pipes are typically darkened.
- Unique Wheel Designs: Often featuring intricate carbon fibre or bespoke alloy wheels.
- Exclusive Paint Finishes: While any color can be specified, black is often the color of choice, applied through multiple layers of paint and lacquer, hand-polished for an intense, deep luster.
- Bespoke Interior Details: The cabin features unique materials like Technical Fibre (a carbon fiber weave with metallic threads), darkened chrome vents, intricate geometric patterns, and bespoke color accents.
Powertrains (Varies by Model)
Black Badge models utilize the same core engine architecture as their standard counterparts but are tuned for higher output and more dynamic response.
- Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge (Series II):
- Engine: 6.75-liter Twin-Turbocharged V12 Gasoline.
- Output: 600 PS (592 hp) and 900 Nm (664 lb-ft) of torque (an increase over the standard Ghost).
- 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph): Approx. 4.6 – 4.7 seconds.
- Drive System: All-Wheel Drive (AWD).
- Rolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge (Series II):
- Engine: 6.75-liter Twin-Turbocharged V12 Gasoline.
- Output: 600 PS (592 hp) and 900 Nm (664 lb-ft) of torque (an increase over the standard Cullinan).
- 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph): Approx. 4.8 seconds.
- Drive System: Permanent All-Wheel Drive (AWD).
- Rolls-Royce Wraith Black Badge (Limited Stock):
- Engine: 6.6-liter Twin-Turbocharged V12 Gasoline.
- Output: 632 PS (624 hp) and 870 Nm (642 lb-ft) of torque.
- 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph): Approx. 4.5 seconds.
- Drive System: Rear-Wheel Drive (RWD).
- Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge (Expected for 2025):
- Motor Type: Dual Electric Motors.
- Output: Approx. 485 kW (659 PS / 650 hp).
- Max Torque: Up to 1075 Nm (793 lb-ft).
- 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph): Approx. 4.1 seconds.
- Drive System: All-Wheel Drive (AWD).
Electric or Hybrid Models for Black Badge
Currently, the Black Badge offerings (Cullinan, Ghost, Wraith) that feature internal combustion engines are not offered with any hybrid (mild-hybrid or plug-in hybrid) powertrains. Rolls-Royce’s strategy is to transition directly from V12 internal combustion to full electric.
The Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge is the first all-electric Black Badge model, and it is a purely electric vehicle (BEV), with no hybrid options whatsoever. As Rolls-Royce moves towards an all-electric future by 2030, future Black Badge models will also be fully electric.
Technical Specifications (Select Black Badge Models – 2025)
Technical specifications are based on official Rolls-Royce data for the Black Badge models and market information for 2025. Figures may vary based on specific configuration and Bespoke features.
Design and Interior: The Rebel Spirit, Refined
Black Badge models are instantly recognizable by their distinctive, darker aesthetic and unique materials. Key design hallmarks include:
- Darkened Exterior Elements: The iconic Pantheon Grille, Spirit of Ecstasy figurine, bespoke badging, exhaust tips, and even the “Double R” badge on the front, flanks, and rear are specially darkened. These are not merely painted, but chrome-plated in an electrolyte before being plated with a darker chrome finish.
- Unique Wheels: Black Badge cars often feature exclusive composite carbon fiber and alloy wheels, or bespoke darkened alloy designs, enhancing their assertive stance.
- Intense Paint Finishes: While any color can be chosen through Bespoke, a signature deep, multi-layered Black paint is a popular choice, hand-polished for an unparalleled intensity.
- Bespoke Interiors: The cabin of a Black Badge model features unique materials and color combinations. Common elements include:
- Technical Fibre: An intricate, carbon-fibre weave with metallic threads, often appearing on fascia, centre console, and door panels.
- Darkened Chrome Accents: Interior brightwork like air vent surrounds are smoked or darkened.
- Vibrant Color Accents: Often contrasted with bold interior colors (e.g., Mugello Red, Forge Yellow, Mandarin) for seating, piping, or stitching, adding a dramatic flair.
- Unique Emblems: The “Infinity” lemniscate symbol (representing infinity) is subtly integrated throughout the cabin, symbolizing endless possibilities and performance.
Black Badge offers a more overtly expressive and dynamic interpretation of Rolls-Royce luxury. It is for the patron who desires a motor car that is not only a symbol of ultimate luxury but also a powerful and individualistic statement on the road.
