The Rolls-Royce Lineup, Explained: Four Bodies, Not Fourteen Models

The range	Figure	What kind of number that is
In production	4 model lines	Phantom, Ghost, Cullinan, Spectre. The whole current catalogue.
Ended in 2023	2 model lines	Wraith and Dawn. Still the two most searched-for names.
Extended Wheelbase	+220 mm	The same saloon, longer in the middle. Every millimetre goes to the back seat.
Black Badge	a trim	Darkened brightwork, a black Spirit of Ecstasy, more power. Not a body.
Series II	a facelift	Lights, screens, details. The shape does not change.
In our garage	Cullinan, Wraith, Dawn	Each on its own page, with its calendar.

The one line here that Goodwood is still building Rolls-Royce Cullinan Five seats, a real boot, rear doors that still open backwards. Dates and rate →

The Rolls-Royce models list: four in production, none of them entry level

Rolls-Royce sells four cars. Not fourteen, not a family tree — four. The range looks bigger because a vocabulary sits on top of it, and nobody explains the vocabulary.

Most people arrive having seen five or six names and assumed each one is a separate car. Two are the same saloon at different lengths. Two more are trim levels wearing their own badge. And the two names people search for hardest are cars Goodwood stopped building three years ago, which is why they turn up in Los Angeles garages and nowhere on the manufacturer’s configurator.

The range as it stands: the Phantom, the flagship saloon, rear-wheel drive, built to be sat in the back of. The Ghost, the smaller saloon below it, all-wheel drive, built for an owner who takes the wheel. The Cullinan, the SUV, five seats and a tailgate, since 2018 the car that brought most new owners to the marque. The Spectre, the electric two-door that took the Wraith’s place in 2023. There is no small Rolls-Royce, no estate and nothing under the Ghost; the range has no entry level, and that is deliberate. Some of the lines built this decade are in our own Rolls-Royce garage, and this page says which well before the end.

Two saloons, and the difference is who is driving

This is the pair people confuse, reasonably, because from thirty feet the two share a grille, a bonnet ornament and a silhouette. What separates them is what each is for. The Phantom is enormous, rear-driven, and every decision in it assumes the important seat is the back one: reclining rear chairs, a fold-out table, a compartment tuned for silence. The Ghost is shorter, driven through all four wheels, and set up around the person holding the wheel. It is also the quieter car socially, which for a certain kind of owner is the entire argument.

Both are built at two lengths, and the long ones are where most of the miscounting begins. An Extended Wheelbase car is the same car with about 220 millimetres let into its middle, all of it handed to the rear passengers. It is not a separate model and never was. If it is the five badges rather than the four bodies you are untangling, Ghost, Phantom, Cullinan, Wraith and Dawn sorted by doors, roof and seats runs them side by side.

If a rear seat and a driver is what the day needs, our chauffeur service pairs a driver with the Cullinan, which has the high roofline and the wide rear doors a saloon is usually chosen for in the first place. The four-door cars in this range are bought to be sat in the back of, and that is exactly what the chauffeured Cullinan gives you.

Black Badge, Extended Wheelbase, Series II, coachbuild: the words that triple the range

Four terms do most of the work in a Rolls-Royce listing, and three of them are routinely written as though they were separate cars.

Extended Wheelbase is a length: a Phantom Extended is a Phantom with a longer back door. Black Badge is a trim — chrome blacked out, the Spirit of Ecstasy in black, more power, a firmer chassis — offered across several lines, so it is a specification rather than a body. The look also comes apart from the specification, because blacked-out grille surrounds and window trim are something Rapid Window Tinting on Sunset Boulevard will wrap onto any car as an accent.

Series II is a mid-life facelift: lights, screens and details, not the shape. Coachbuild is the one-off department. The Boat Tail, the Sweptail and the Droptail are built in ones and threes for a named client, they never carry a list price; what they actually cost is a different conversation from what the range contains.

Learn those four and roughly ninety per cent of the apparent complexity disappears. What is left is four bodies.

The coupe and the convertible ended in 2023, and the number in this city only goes down

Two of the range’s best-known cars are not in the lineup any more, and nothing on the manufacturer’s site acknowledges that they ever were.

The Wraith was the fastback two-door: 624 horsepower from a 6.6-litre twin-turbo V12, the longest bonnet in the range, and two rear-hinged doors long enough to open the whole cabin to the kerb. Rolls-Royce ended it and put the electric Spectre in its place. The Dawn was the four-seat convertible, built from 2015 to 2023 on the same underpinnings, with a six-layer fabric roof designed to make it as quiet closed as a saloon, and it has no successor at all. Since the showroom no longer carries a page for either, the archive is the authority: the Dawn’s production record is where the dates and the engine are still written down.

A model in production can be replaced; a model that ended in 2023 cannot. The number of Wraiths and Dawns in Los Angeles only goes down, which is why the Wraith’s spring Saturdays fill before anything else in the garage, so book early.

Which of the six lines exist in a Los Angeles garage

The Rolls-Royce garage: the Cullinan, the one Goodwood is still building and the car for the whole day; the Wraith, for the drive; and the Dawn, for the coast.

If the badge is what you came for and the body is still open, start with the shape. An SUV, a coupe and a convertible solve three different evenings, and the Cullinan, Wraith and Dawn comparison makes that decision properly: doors, seats, roofs and colours.

What it costs, and how it reaches you

Every Rolls-Royce here carries the same $2,000 refundable deposit, held rather than charged and back 5–7 business days after the car returns. The Protection plan is priced per day off the deposit band, and all of them sit in the top band. The rate spread between the three bodies is narrow enough that it should not decide anything; the figures and the live calendars sit on the Rolls-Royce page, and what the rest of the bill is made of has its own page.

Collection from our lot on Robertson Boulevard is free and delivery to the partner hotels in Beverly Hills is complimentary. Airport delivery is $150 both ways standard, where the car waits in the airport parking structure and you take the shuttle out to it, or $300 both ways VIP, where it is waiting at the terminal when you walk out — half that for one direction. Drivers are 21 or older with a licence held two years; under 25 there is a young-driver fee per day, and on this shelf it is the higher of the two we charge. Mileage, fuel and the rest are in the terms.