Why Rolls Royce Cars are so expensive?

The Short Answer :

Because nearly every task is completed by hand.

• Where in the modern world, most of the luxury car companies prefer to build their cars by robots, the Rolls Royce prefers to use humans instead.

• Let’s take an example,
  The grills on the front portion of the Rolls : No measurement instruments are used to build this grill, its solely made by hands. It takes one man one day to build a Rolls Royce grill and 5 hours are spent polishing it.

The Long Answer :

• This is Good-wood plant, the birthplace of Rolls.
  All in all their are only 4 robots in this 7-acres massive plant, but even they can’t completely replace the human touch.

• Inside the car, the leather is had from Scandinavian bulls only. (Rolls Royce gets leathers from only those bulls that have been already killed for food.)

• The cars space frame chassis is first built in Germany and then shifted to Good-wood plant (England).

• Inside the paint expanse, it requires 22 steps, 5 layers of paint and seven days before the body is perfect and in total 45 kilograms of paint is sprayed onto the body shell. This takes almost a week to 10 days because, even the paint works are mostly done by hands & the last layer of paint is done by couple of robots.

• The process of polishing takes 5 hours.

• A special tradition is used named “Bookmatching”, where the veneers are given glossy finish to give the mirror look from each side.

• 450 pieces of leather and 17 days are necessary for completing the interior.

• The star looking roof needs one of the best and skillful workers, who take about 12 hours to build one roof.

• The cars interior consists of 42 different parts of veneers totally handcrafted. The veneers are sourced from all over the world and many different woods are available.

• Each car takes weeks at least to create. The fastest car that Rolls can make is the Ghost, which takes a minimum of 30 days and 60 hands to make. The Phantom takes a minimum of 45 days. Some Rolls-Royce’s can even take up to a year.