Before you get too excited, we want to let you down. No, this new Rolls-Royce is not the first car in decades with pop-up or otherwise hidden headlights. It looks like they're hidden away, but the Rolls-Royce Project Nightingale's front lamps are entirely inside those thin vertical strips on the corners of the car's face.It's just one of the wonderful design elements on this first vehicle of the Rolls-Royce Coachbuild Collection. It's a car that looks like a boat tail, but Rolls-Royce makes no such mention of that. Instead, this is an art-deco "torpedo" that will see a limited production run, which might be why it's not called a Boat Tail since those were one-of-one projects. Still, this new car, called Project Nightingale, will be so rare that it makes the Spectre look like a Toyota RAV4 in comparison. Rolls-Royce Dives Headfirst Into A Bespoke Pool Rolls-RoyceMore than anything else, Rolls buyers want custom. That could be something that is made just for them (or at least as few others as possible) or it could mean picking their own colors, hides, and other options. Rolls-Royce is happy to do both, and this is the latest example of the former."Project Nightingale is built on the design principles that define this marque at its most compelling – grand proportions, absolute surface discipline, and a clarity of line that rewards the closest attention. And yet, it takes them somewhere entirely new."-Domagoj Dukec, Rolls-Royce design directorThis is a car with proportions meant to take you back to the 1920s and 1930s. It's opulent and glamorous, with Streamliner-era elements. This car is 19-feet long, which is as long as a Chevrolet Suburban, yet in photos it looks sleek. Lithe. A triumph of what a car designer can do when the budget restraints come off.Rolls-Royce Project Nightinggale (6)From the new headlights, a chrome strip runs back along the body and through the split tailights on either side. It trails off at the rear, helping to make it look fast even when sitting. There are elements you won't find anywhere else, including the side-hinged trunklid and the long buttresses behind the two seats.The stainless steel strip that starts behind the rear wheels? It's meant to look like the wake of a sailing yacht. You'll find the coach door handles hiding in the fender trim strip. The red badges are a detail brought back from the company's experimental cars of the 1920s. Birdsong-Inspired Interior Lighting Rolls-RoyceEverything is wonderful, until Rolls puts the roof up. The top is cashmere, fabric, and composites, designed to make the car quiet but let you hear each drop of rain. But it ruins the proportions. Hopefully, buyers can afford to change the weather, letting them keep it down all the time.It must be a fascinating experience to see inside the Rolls-Royce design studios, and the interior lighting might be the greatest example of that. The 10,500 individual lights in the Starlight Breeze lighting system were designed and laid out using the sound-wave patterns of the song of the nightingale. That sound was then made visual for the driver and front passenger.Rolls-Royce plans to build just 100 copies of this car, but the exclusivity goes beyond that. The British luxury brand is developing a new palette of colors and materials that it will only ever use on the Nightingale cars, with each one still tailored to its owner.The Nightingale name comes from Le Rossignol, the building on Henry Royce's French estate where designers and engineers toiled. Rossignol is French for Nightingale.Rolls barely mentions what powers this car, but it's a Spectre underneath. Yes, that means it is a fully electric car, which just adds to the silence when you're cruising across Europe in this modern automotive wonder.Rolls-Royce Project Nightinggale (3)