Starlight Headliner’s creators are constantly looking for new ways to illuminate their cars.
Attention one-percenters Rolls-Royce found a way that makes a car’s interior more glamorous. The “Illuminated Fassia” is a fancy name for it. It takes the form of the Ghost’s nameplate, with more than 850 stars surrounding it. The development of the dashboard was more than two years long and took over 100,000 hours collectively. It is a unique passenger-side dashboard that no other car has.
Rolls-Royce used 152 LEDs to lighten the wordmark and adjacent constellation. These LEDs are invisible when the car’s not in use. Once it is on, the “Ghost” and stars will be lit evenly using a guide of two millimeters thick with more than 90,000.
According to the Goodwood-based prestige marque, this technique not only disperses the light evenly but also creates a twinkling effect as your eyes move across dashboard fascia. This was to reproduce the Starlight Headliner’s similar effect. The leather used in the headliner has 800-600 holes through which Rolls-Royce inserts fiber optic lighting.
The passenger-side dashboard is made up of three layers of composite material. It starts with a Piano Black, which has been laser-etched to remove the black coloring. This allows light to pass through Ghost and the star constellation. To hide the letters when the car’s off, a dark-tinted lacquer layer is added. Rolls-Royce seals fascia with a discretely tinted layer lacquer. This is then hand-painted to achieve a thickness of 0.5mm with a glossy finish. Rolls-Royce has announced that the world premiere of the Ghost’s first “Bespoke” feature will be held in the week beginning September 1.