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A key part of the development team is Martin Christie, senior engineer at Rolls-Royce and a man who has been involved in the development and set-up of every car to come from Goodwood. He says he is “like a child with lots of new toys” now that the firm is making the switch to electric, and the possibilities this opens up for the firm to push even further the boundaries of comfort, quietness and refinement. “It’s almost ludicrous what you can do,” he says.
“Contributing to noise are the exhaust, engine, wind and the tyres,” says director of engineering Mihiar Ayoubi. “This does without the first two of them.