Rolls-Royce has shared photos of a custom-ordered Phantom SUV commissioned by billionaire Jack Boyd Smith Jr. with Acacia Koa wood inserts in the cabin.
The avid car collector asked the company to color-match his new car precisely to the 87-year-old Packard Twelve his family owned. It took the British luxury automaker 40 attempts to get it right, and the company even requested a fender of the car shipped to it for color spectrum analysis.
Obtaining Koa wood constituted another major challenge, because this tree species is protected by the government. Rolls-Royce ended up having to wait 36 months for a tree to fall down on its own to haul it away and use it in the interior trim.