Watch Top Gear's review of the Rolls-Royce Spectre, a £330k electric masterpiece

The Rolls-Royce Spectre weighs 2.9 tonnes. But even its 700kg battery back is used as a layer of soundproofing. That’s how focused Rolls-Royce was on creating the most refined car in the world with this: its first ever electric car.

The Spectre doesn’t try to be radical: it looks like a Roller, it has a very traditional interior and underpinnings aren’t anything you haven’t seen from an EV before. So does that mean Rolls-Royce just got a bit more generic, or is this in fact the finest car on the face of the Earth?

Top Gear magazine’s Ollie Kew has been wafting around in the new £330,000 super-deluxe coupe to find out.