Rivian Is Auctioning This Bespoke Pebble Beach–Themed R1S To Profit MrBeast’s Clean Water Fund

Rivian developed a brand new color called Monterey Silver only for this R1S, which it says captures “the soft, golden, and quietly powerful light of a morning over Monterey Bay.” The corporate says the paint is meticulously applied in a four-stage process, and that it “shimmers with the depth that evokes the reflective qualities of liquid metal.” I do think the paint looks quite nice — I own a gold automotive myself, so I’ve gotta be a fan of beige — and it looks like the colour shifts lots depending on the sunshine conditions.

Cooler are the 22-inch forged wheels that were also designed only for this automotive, featuring a three-tone finish. Rivian painted the body cladding, and the badges, window trim and other exterior accents are finished in Burnished Bronze, which is one in all the three shades within the wheels together with the Monterey Silver. The brake calipers are painted the identical Laguna Blue color as other R1 Quads. Rivian says the Pebble Beach automotive has unique exterior light animations, though it doesn’t give any details.

There’s lots more special stuff happening inside. The corporate calls the colour scheme Coastal Canvas, which pairs a tan headliner with off-white Pebble Stone Adventex upholstery, each colours that not offered on normal Rivians. The seats have a singular perforation pattern with an orange checkered center stripe, and the door panels have the identical woven look. There are textiles constituted of a sustainable cork mix, and the wood trim is constituted of spalted oil ash wood, which has dark marbling created by a fungal infection when the tree was alive — chief designer Jeff Hammoud told MotorTrend wood like that will normally be rejected for a production model, but for a one-off like this it adds character.

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Blue stitching and other bits tie within the brake calipers, but the true color is found on the speaker grilles, sisal floor mats, integrated flashlights and other accents, where Rivian applied a gradient finish inspired by the best way the sun fades into the ocean. The ombre effect blends teal blue with a subtle gold and a vibrant orange-y red, which occur to even be the colours of the Rivian Adventure Department skunkworks crew — they’re those who ran an R1T up Pikes Peak. Different methods like anodizing, dyeing and painting were used depending on the fabric to maintain the gradient looking uniform across all of the automotive’s components.

The R1S Quad Pebble Beach will cross Broad Arrow’s auction block on the Monterey Jet Center tonight, August 13. The automotive has no reserve applied to it, so whoever is the best bidder will win. When Rivian first announced the one-off and related sale, it made no mention of where the cash would go, but now we all know that each one proceeds shall be donated to #TeamWater, which is a “creator-led crowdfunding campaign” that goals to offer two million individuals with access to wash water by raising $40 million. This fundraiser was began by YouTubers Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson and Mark Rober, following their previous collaborative fundraisers that aimed to plant trees and clean the oceans.

Obviously it’s great that this money shall be going to charity, and access to wash water is something that everybody on Earth deserves, but really, MrBeast? The guy who’s been in hot water for a lot of his past charitable acts and videos that border on exploitative, on the very least? #TeamWater says that each one of its donations will go on to WaterAid, a really real organization, but in addition to other unnamed “charitable partners.” It will feel less icky if the proceeds from this sale went straight to WaterAid as an alternative of going through MrBeast first, but hey, if more people do find yourself getting clean water for this reason, I suppose it is a win regardless.

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