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1995 Rolls-Royce Flying Spur Sedan

Posted by David Kinney

The 1995 Rolls-Royce Flying Spur was a limited-production, turbocharged version of the Silver Spur II, and the first turbo Rolls-Royce ever produced. The assumption is that 50 Flying Spurs were built for the US market for 1995, while 133 cars were built in total production.

The differences between Silver Spurs and Flying Spurs? Well, in addition to the usual fitments that seem to drip off of special-edition cars in general, and Rolls-Royces in particular, for your $244,245 you received extra wood to the interior, including full picnic tables to the rear, European-style headlights as opposed to the standard quad headlights, a Garrett AiResearch turbocharger, and 360 hp – making the Flying Spur the proud owner at the time of the title of “most powerful production Rolls produced.” Contemporary road tests gave the car a standing quarter-mile time of 15.5 seconds and a 0-60 time of 6.9 seconds, a full 3.5 seconds off the time of a Silver Spirit II. Top speed was a reported 130 mph. Not too shabby for a car that tips the scales at a full 3 tons.

(From the November 2002 issue of Sports Car Market magazine.)