Hire the Rolls-Royce Spectre in London.

There is a moment, the first time you move off, when the brain waits for a sound that never comes. The Spectre simply gathers speed — all of its torque available at once, the nose rising slightly — and the city goes quiet around you. Rolls-Royce calls the feeling waftability; in an electric car it is total. The doors close themselves, the Starlight headliner glows, and London arranges itself outside the glass like a film set.

In the city the Spectre is in its element. It is long, but rear-wheel steering shrinks it around Mayfair's corners, and as a pure EV it meets the ULEZ standard with nothing to pay. It is just as happy pointed out of town: the range is usable in the real world, and we deliver the car fully charged with destination and public charging mapped out for you. Smooth at any speed, it turns the dullest stretch of the A40 into something close to meditation.

We deliver the Spectre fully prepared to your London address and walk you through the cabin technology, the charging and the car's quiet theatre before leaving you with it. It is the car for the occasion that does not need noise to matter — an arrival, an anniversary, a weekend where the point is to glide rather than to be heard.