Mansory Carbon Fiber Body kit set for Rolls-Royce Dawn Soft kit

MANSORY Soft Kit for the Rolls-Royce Dawn — the lighter-touch tier on a discontinued donor

The Rolls-Royce Dawn — RR6 platform, 6.6-litre twin-turbo V12, four seats, folding soft-top roof, produced from 2016 to 2023 — is Goodwood's last open-top V12 grand-tourer and, with Dawn production now wound down, the final Rolls-Royce convertible of the combustion era. The factory successor to the coupé sibling is the Spectre, and the Spectre is built exclusively as a two-door coupé with no convertible variant announced. That leaves the Dawn as a fixed-donor model: the global pool of Dawns will not grow. This product page covers the Mansory Soft Kit tier for the Dawn — the bolt-on, lighter-touch SKU tier designed for existing Dawn owners who want a carbon-weave aesthetic upgrade without committing to the full hard-kit bumper swap.

Soft Kit vs hard-kit — what is in this tier, what is not

Mansory structures the Rolls-Royce convertible programme in two tiers. The hard kit is a full bumper-swap programme with redrawn front and rear bumper shells, new intake geometry, and re-dimensioned arch geometry. The Soft Kit — the tier this page sells — keeps every factory Rolls-Royce body panel in place and instead layers bolt-on carbon add-ons on top of the factory bumpers, factory skirts, and factory bonnet. The Soft Kit does not require the factory bumpers to be removed or replaced. Installation runs one to two shop days rather than the four-to-six-day window of the hard kit, and the kit is reversible: every Soft Kit piece can be removed and the car returned to full factory appearance without panel disturbance. For owners stepping into a late-production used Dawn with an unknown future resale horizon, the Soft Kit's reversibility is often the decisive factor.

Soft Kit — the published parts list

Every part below layers onto the factory Dawn panel. Nothing in the Soft Kit replaces a structural bumper, a fender or a bonnet outer skin.

• Front add-on lip — bolts below the factory front bumper lower edge
• Side skirts lip — bolts below the factory rocker panel
• Air intakes facelift — carbon trim overlays inside the factory front bumper intake apertures
• Air intakes splitter with DRL — carbon splitter with integrated daytime-running LED strip, fits inside the intake facelift module
• Diffuser — carbon lower diffuser bolts below the factory rear bumper
• Air outtake splitter for rear bumper — lower rear-bumper carbon trim
• Rear decklid spoiler — three shapes: the standard NEW rear decklid spoiler, a flat rear decklid spoiler, and a wide rear decklid spoiler (owners pick one)
• Roof spoiler Mansory — carbon trim along the rear edge of the folding soft-top cowl
• Rear trunk bar cover — carbon trim across the rear-trunk hinge line
• A-pillar cover — carbon overlay on both A-pillar outer faces
• Folding roof trim — carbon trim on the folded-soft-top cowl frame
• Front grille frame — carbon trim ring around the OEM grille slats (OEM Spirit of Ecstasy and OEM grille slats preserved)
• Engine bonnet with bar exposed — bolt-on carbon bar trim across the factory bonnet surface (no bonnet replacement)
• Ambiente grille illumination — illuminated grille module, four variants: standard, two-tone painted lamels, front-bumper-combined, front-bumper-combined with two-tone lamels

The full Soft Kit commission typically runs about two thirds of the hard-kit price and installs in under eight shop hours. Owners who later decide to step up to the hard kit can credit the Soft Kit bonnet-bar, grille frame, Ambiente illumination and roof-spoiler pieces forward, because the hard kit uses the same parts in those zones. The bumper add-on lips and intake facelifts do not credit forward because the hard kit replaces the bumpers entirely.

Dawn on the RR6 platform — shared chassis with the Wraith Coupé

The Dawn sits on the RR6 platform and shares its floor, its firewall, its body-in-white up to the waistline and a substantial share of its interior architecture with the Rolls-Royce Wraith coupé. The differences sit above the waistline — the Dawn's soft-top mechanism, the reinforced convertible waistline, the cowl and the folding-roof trim are Dawn-specific. For owners familiar with the Wraith Mansory programme, the Dawn Soft Kit reads like a convertible-specific subset of the Wraith programme: the Soft Kit excludes any parts that sit in the coupé's roof-line zone, and adds the Dawn-specific folding-roof cowl trim and the roof spoiler that is unique to the convertible body.

Goodwood also produced a Dawn Black Badge from 2017, the factory's own performance variant of the Dawn — 593 hp from the same V12, re-tuned torque delivery, darker exterior trim and a stiffened chassis calibration. The Mansory Soft Kit fits the standard Dawn and the Dawn Black Badge without dimensional change; the Black Badge chrome-surround darkening is unaffected by the Soft Kit trim because none of the Soft Kit parts overlay the factory darkened surrounds.

V12 powertrain — Soft Kit is body only

The Dawn runs the 6.6-litre twin-turbo V12 at 563 hp / 780 Nm in standard Dawn trim and at 593 hp / 820 Nm in Black Badge trim. The Soft Kit is a bodywork programme only — engine output is unchanged on both variants. A separate Mansory V12 tune for the RR6-platform twin-turbo sits in the catalogue as an independent line item (applicable to Dawn and Wraith donors) and is commonly commissioned alongside the Soft Kit for owners who want the visual change and a performance increase on the same freight booking. Open-top V12 owners who add the tune almost always add a Mansory sport-exhaust at the same time so the V12 character is audible with the roof down; the exhaust ships as a third independent SKU.

Wheels — forged options on the Dawn's PCD

The Dawn from factory ships on 21" Rolls-Royce wheels as standard. The Mansory forged wheel offering for the RR6 convertible donor covers 21" and 22" in several multi-spoke designs; the 22" is the most-commissioned size on Soft Kit commissions because the larger wheel balances the visual mass of the bonnet-bar and the grille-frame add-ons. The wheel ships separately from the Soft Kit itself. Full wheel range at Hodoor forged wheels, configurable to the Dawn's 5×112 PCD.

Geography — where the surviving Dawn pool lives

With the Dawn out of production since 2023 and no factory convertible successor, the Soft Kit's geographic order book follows a different pattern from any other car in the Mansory catalogue: it is shaped not by new-car registration volume in a given market, but by where the existing Dawn pool happens to be garaged. A Dawn bought in 2017 in Monaco and kept in the same garage for a decade is exactly as relevant to the Soft Kit order book in 2026 as a recently-registered car would be.

The dominant Soft Kit corridor is the summer-garage convertible belt — markets where a V12 soft-top is driven in season rather than year-round. The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain run the Dawn in the cooler November-to-March window; the car sees garage-storage through the high-temperature months. The European Mediterranean belt — Monaco, the Côte d'Azur, coastal Italy and the Balearics — runs the Dawn in the opposite half of the year, May to September. Orders originating out of Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne) sit on the summer-garage side of this belt.

The North American pool concentrates on two coasts: Southern California (Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, Palm Springs) and South Florida (Miami, Palm Beach). Both markets run the Dawn effectively year-round, and the Soft Kit's reversibility plays well with the North American used-Rolls-Royce resale market where a verified factory-appearance return is often a condition of the next owner's valuation. Asia-Pacific concentrates in Hong Kong (garage-stored with seasonal rooftop use) and Singapore (a small Dawn pool but heavy commission rate among it). Japan sits at a small but steady order rate concentrated on Tokyo's Minato and Shibuya wards.

The Russian / CIS order volume routes through the Tsar programme freight channel; that channel carries a mix of Dawn and Wraith commissions from the same households, and a noticeable share of Dawn Soft Kit commissions specify to match a Wraith hard-kit build in the same garage. The Kazakhstan market sits as a smaller extension with recurring Almaty-based orders.

Sister Mansory Rolls-Royce builds

The Dawn Soft Kit cross-links in the garage to the rest of the Mansory Rolls-Royce line: the Wraith coupé on the same RR6-era platform, the Ghost II saloon, the Phantom VIII limousine, and the Cullinan SUV. A hard-kit page for the Dawn exists as a separate catalogue item for owners who prefer the full bumper-swap tier; the hard kit uses a different parts list and is typically a longer lead-time commission.

Ordering & lead time

Full Soft Kit: three to four weeks from the workshop. Ambiente grille illumination module (any of the four variants): two weeks, ships on the same freight. Mansory V12 tune (RR6 platform): in stock. Mansory sport exhaust: three weeks. 22" forged wheel set: four weeks. Email [email protected] with your VIN, donor variant (standard Dawn / Dawn Black Badge), model year, rear-decklid spoiler preference (standard / flat / wide — one of the three is selected at order time), Ambiente variant (standard / two-tone / front-bumper-combined / front-bumper-combined with two-tone), and OEM paint code. Soft Kit installation under eight shop hours; no OEM panel removal.

FAQ

Does the Soft Kit fit the Wraith Coupé body as well, given the shared RR6 platform?
No. Several Soft Kit pieces — the roof spoiler, the folding-roof trim, the A-pillar cover geometry and the rear-trunk bar cover — are dimensioned to the Dawn's convertible body-in-white and do not fit the Wraith's coupé roof-line. Wraith-donor owners should reference the Wraith carbon programme page, which carries coupé-specific parts.

What is the functional difference between the Soft Kit and the Dawn hard kit?
The hard kit replaces the factory front bumper, rear bumper and occasionally the bonnet outer panel; the Soft Kit layers bolt-on add-ons onto all of those factory panels without replacing any of them. Hard-kit install: four to six shop days and irreversible without panel replacement. Soft Kit install: under eight shop hours and fully reversible. Visually the hard kit is more aggressive at the bumpers; the Soft Kit is more restrained at the bumpers but otherwise carries the same Mansory silhouette signals (bonnet bar, grille frame, rear spoiler, roof spoiler, Ambiente grille).

Can I upgrade from the Soft Kit to the hard kit later?
Yes. Owners who start at the Soft Kit and later commit to the hard kit can credit the bonnet-bar, grille-frame, Ambiente illumination, roof spoiler, A-pillar and rear-decklid-spoiler pieces forward — the hard kit uses the same parts in those zones. The front add-on lip, the side skirt lip, the intake facelift, the intake splitter with DRL and the diffuser do not credit forward because the hard kit replaces the bumper panels that those add-ons were layered onto. A rough rule of thumb: around 55–60% of the Soft Kit cost carries forward to a subsequent hard-kit commission.

Is there a factory successor to the Dawn — should I wait for a new Rolls-Royce convertible before ordering?
Rolls-Royce ended Dawn production in 2023 and has not announced a convertible successor. The current factory coupé successor to the Wraith is the electric Spectre, and Spectre is coupé-only. There is no public Goodwood roadmap for a Spectre Convertible at this time. Dawn owners should treat the current donor pool as fixed and size their commission decision against the surviving pool rather than a future new-model window.

Does the Ambiente grille illumination module draw from the factory electrical system?
Yes, through a factory-tap harness that routes to the parking-light bus. The module has four variants: standard illumination of the grille only; two-tone painted lamels (the vertical grille slats take a specifiable secondary paint colour); front-bumper-combined (the illumination extends down into the front bumper splitter below the grille); and front-bumper-combined with two-tone painted lamels. The harness install takes about three hours; the module is not legal for on-road illumination in certain European markets — workshop provides the correct certification paperwork per country.

What is the resale implication of the Soft Kit on a fixed-pool donor?
The Soft Kit's reversibility is the key factor here. Because no factory panel is removed or modified, a next owner who prefers factory appearance can have the Soft Kit de-installed in under a shop day with no remaining trace. On the used-Rolls-Royce market the Soft Kit therefore does not impose a reversibility discount the way a hard-kit bumper swap would. Within the population of buyers who actively seek a Mansory Dawn, the Soft Kit tier commands a modest price premium over unmodified donors. The V12 tune and the sport exhaust, where specified, reset to stock cleanly on the Mansory calibration reversal.