"Celebratory Goddess" is the symbol of Rolls-Royce, it is said that according to the different materials, its price is also high and low, and the price of a single can even be as high as hundreds of thousands. For 111 years, the image of the celebratory goddess has not changed. But in order to adapt to the era of electric vehicles and reduce air resistance, Rolls-Royce began to use knives against the "goddess of celebration".
The new "Goddess of Celebration" statue has been adjusted in height, its original height was 100.01mm, but it was changed to 82.73mm.
The new designs became more complex, with local details and facial contours giving a more detailed look. Rolls-Royce says it's built to look more like a round part.
The reason Rolls-Royce launched the new "Goddess of Celebration" statue is to reduce air resistance, making it a more realistic work of art. It will be applied for the first time to Rolls-Royce's first electric car, the Specter, which has an aerodynamic coefficient of 0.26Cd, along with the new "Goddess of Celebration" statue. Rolls-Royce explained that it took 830 hours from modeling to wind tunnel testing to create a new "Goddess of Celebration" statue.
Whisper, the predecessor of the Statue of Joy
The "Goddess of Celebration" statue was dedicated to the British aristocratic Baron John Douglas-Scott-Montague, owner of the car magazine Auto Illustrated, and Eleanor Velasco Thornton, who served as its secretary. Baron Montgot was married and fell in love because of the difference in status between them.
Later, in 1909, Baron Montgu commissioned Charles Robinson Sykes to make a personal mascot on his Rolls-Royce silver ghost car, and Sykes hired Baron's secretary, Eleanor Thornton, as a model. The first statue was named Whisper.
At that time, it was popular in the automotive industry to attach personal decorations to the end of the hood. Rolls-Royce confirmed this and tried to create its own elegant and elegant decorations. The mythical goddess in the Louvre was also mentioned, but without the emotion that Sykes wanted, once again using Thornton as a model, creating the statue of the goddess as we know it today.
Originally, it was named the Spirit of Speed. Since 1911, Rolls-Royce has represented the company through the Statue of the Goddess of Joy.
This isn't the first time a statue of Joy has made design changes. In the 1930s, there was a problem that consumers who liked Rolls-Royce sporty driving would feel uncomfortable because the Joy Statue blocked the front view. For this reason, Rolls-Royce temporarily added a kneeling goddess of joy.
In addition, Rolls-Royce's Goddess of Joy statue has undergone a total of 11 local changes to meet the various needs of consumers, including safety issues.