Watch Jay Leno Drive His New Rolls-Royce Spectre EV

Jay Leno embraces the electric future in luxurious opulence.

Known for his illustrious, decades-long comedy career and expansive car collection, Jay Leno is known as one of the biggest personalities in the world of automotive enthusiasts and entertainment alike. His taste in cars is known for beautiful craftsmanship, history, legacy, and automotive excellence in general, whether old or new. While the electric future and many of the vehicles that represent it are somewhat incongruent with the vehicles in Jay Leno’s collection, his newest car is one that fits right in despite being a cutting-edge electric pioneer.

That is the Rolls-Royce Spectre, the car that Jay Leno has most recently added to his collection. Having a love for the traditional techniques involved in making vintage classics but not for the inconvenience of their antiquated mechanisms, the Rolls-Royce Spectre represents the best of both worlds, using painstaking craftsmanship (taking approximately 12 weeks to build), exquisite materials like fine woods and leathers, and also highly innovative electric vehicle engineering and technology.

Finished in a black-on-black configuration, Leno’s new Rolls-Royce Spectre leans into embodying timeless excellence, and it’s not only his first Rolls-Royce Spectre but his first Rolls-Royce. He’d never gotten one before due to having plenty of V12-powered cars, but the introduction of an electric Rolls-Royce convinced him to experience Rolls-Royce luxury.

What makes the Rolls-Royce Spectre special is that it’s both a pioneering electric vehicle and a true Rolls-Royce, featuring traditional Rolls-Royce design, the signature Pantheon Grille, doors that close automatically when the driver presses the brake, a starlight headliner that displays the constellation above Goodwood on the night the first Rolls-Royce rolled off the Goodwood assembly line, and many more opulent, minute details.

With a new Rolls-Royce Spectre in his expansive garage, Jay Leno is embracing the electric future in the elegance that Rolls-Royce has become known and admired for over a century. Change is bittersweet, and the automotive world knows that better than most. However, Rolls-Royce, with Jay Leno’s endorsement and ownership, is introducing a unique solution to the transition to electrification, combining futurism and timeless luxury and elegance.