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</p><p>Rolls-Royce Dawn, an eagerly awaited ultra-luxury convertible from the British car maker has been finally launched in India, at a whopping price-tag of 6.25 crore (ex-showroom, Mumbai). The Dawn is the stylish 2+2 seater soft top convertible that shares its genes with the Wraith coupe, but company claims it to be an entirely different car with its own unique styling and features. It's the fourth Rolls-Royce model to enter the Indian car market after the Phantom, Ghost, and Wraith.</p><p>The new Dawn is taken as the successor to the Silver Dawn that debuted in 1952. The company has made only 28 units of the original Dawn. The Dawn is the first car in the line-up of the most elegant and symbol of luxury automaker's to come only in the drophead version, with no hard top version available as of now. Instead, the Dawn gets a soft top that can be operated to open/close at speed up to 50 KMPH in about mere 20 seconds.</p><p>At a glance of Dawn, one is convinced that it has an uncanny similitude to the Rolls-Royce Wraith, given the same underpinnings. Having said that, the company claims that 80 percent of the body work that the Dawn has went under, is all new. Talking about dimensions, the coupe convertible is 5285 mm long, 1947 mm wide, 1502 mm tall, and with a long wheelbase of 3112 mm.</p><p>Rolls-Royce has retained its signature design elements on the Dawn making it out-standing convertible probably even best convertible ever to roll on roads. The chrome grille is bit higher than the one on the Wraith, while its sleek headlamps with projector lights and elegant daytime running lights surrounding it gives “Aww!â€ feeling. The front bumper finesse the huge air intakes and a central air dam. The bonnet has been given slight touched to redesign though nothing major tampering to its original RR genes, and continues to carry with pride the badge of the iconic - Spirit of Ecstasy.</p><p>Entering it, the Rolls-Royce Dawn gets a plethora of wood and leather detailing, with an ample of options its customer can choose from. Occupants are cosset with a plethora of creature comforts like four-zone automatic climate control, premium audio system with 16 individually-tuned speakers, chrome ornamental inserted, 10.25 inch touch-screen HD navigation display, Multimedia navigation system and Spirit of Ecstasy rotary controller with gesture sensitive touchpad. Rolls-Royce claims the Dawn has one the quietest cabins and has aptly named the car as a 'Silent Ballet.'</p><p>Under its long hood, the new Rolls-Royce Dawn is fitted with the same 6.6L twin turbocharged V12 petrol engine that is capable of churning out 563BHP@5250RPM of power and developing 820Nm@1500RPM of peak torque. The power house is coupled to an 8-speed automatic transmission that takes the car to 100 KMPH from standstill in just 5 seconds, before reaching an electronically restricted top speed of 250 KMPH.</p><p><img alt=""><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://google.co.in">The state-of-the-art engine needs a state-of-the-art transmission to match its level, which in this case of Dawn is an 8-speed ZF motor that can tell the future. Yes you read it right, transmissions know the future as it is connected to GPS and it constantly receives data about the curve, slope, or flat road it might &nbsp;be approaching, thereby selecting the ideal gear and optimizing the drive of this behemoth.</a><br></p><p><img alt="" src="http://carhunt.in/images/article_images/rrd1.jpg"><br></p><p></p>