2024 Monterey Car Week: Rolls-Royce Spectre Gets Warm Yellow Semaphore Commission

It's called the Semaphore, but this Rolls-Royce Spectre doesn't come with a yellow light warning to stop if you can do so safely. It's probably going to make people stop in their tracks, irrespective of the pedestrian dangers around them, though. The Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Bespoke creation will debut as a one-off at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, on August 16, toward the end of the 2024 Monterey Car Week taking place in California.

The Rolls-Royce Spectre Semaphore was designed to attract and honor the "youthful client base" as the company is seeing a decrease in the average age of its highly affluent one-percenter customers. The exterior is finished in a yellow paint dubbed Bespoke Semaphore Yellow, and the other element of attraction is the wacky artwork featured on the hood. It's named 'Marbled Paint Spill,' and it's inspired by the "informal elegance of coastal California."

They say it's "an abstract tribute to the Golden State and its diverse environment," but for sure, all we can think about is sandy beaches and the sunshine of Southern California rather than "the eastern silver mountain tops." The creation took 160 hours of design, development, and production, with the Rolls-Royce craftspeople applying not only silver lacquer but also multiple layers of clearcoat for "a seamless finish." By the way, if you were hoping for a contrasting atmosphere inside or outside, you're out of luck – the exterior gets loads of chrome touches and matching alloy wheels, while the interior is more of the yellow story.

As such, the cockpit features a mix of Bespoke Lemon Yellow and Citrine Yellow on the seats, Starlight doors, and even above the instrument cluster. Luckily, there are some additional touches of color – some Grace White and Slate Grey hues contrast with their Lemon Yellow stitching. Oh, wait, there's more yellow – the brand's "designers also leveraged the digital Bespoke potential offered by the Spirit operating system by complementing the dials to the motor car's yellow colorway."

Last but not least, there's also "a clean, high-polish Bespoke painted wood set" for the Rolls-Royce Spectre Semaphore – it's colored with Cashmere Grey paint and infused with silver mica flakes, "which creates a vivacious sparkle under direct light." As for the technical specifications, we imagine they remain unchanged compared to a standard Spectre – two BMW eDrive electric motors offer a combined output of 577 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque, plus the EPA rating is of up to 291 miles (468 km) on a single charge.