Rolls-Royce has revealed Project Nightingale, an open two-seat electric car and the first project in its new Coachbuild Collection format. Production is limited to 100 client cars, offered by invitation only, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2028.
Nightingale is not yet a finished production model. Rolls-Royce describes it as a production concept and says a global testing and validation programme will begin in summer 2026. The car uses the marque's aluminium Architecture of Luxury and a fully electric powertrain. Power, battery capacity and performance figures have not yet been disclosed.
The design takes inspiration from Rolls-Royce's high-speed experimental EX cars of the 1920s without attempting to recreate one. Its long, open body uses broad, disciplined surfaces influenced by Streamline Moderne. Rolls-Royce also says a small number of remaining details require entirely new manufacturing techniques, so the creative direction is settled even though engineering development continues.
Coachbuild Collection creates a new position between regular factory personalisation and the marque's singular Coachbuild commissions made for individual patrons. Nightingale is intended to retain the hand-built character and unusual design freedom of those programmes while repeating one coherent concept across 100 cars.
That makes the project more than another special trim. Rolls-Royce is testing whether its most exclusive coachbuilding ideas can be produced in a tightly controlled series without becoming a conventional catalogue derivative.