Wednesday, Dec 27th 2006 by Chris Davies
Worth Reading?
If you’re looking for an ostentatious way to get from A to B (via your ego, naturally) and the Rolls-Royce Phantom is just too passé for your liking, perhaps these preview shots of the company’s new drophead will tempt you. Due to be revealed properly at the Detroit auto show in January, it surprises all and sundry by keeping the suicide doors, polished metal bonnet section and deck-like rear hood cover from the original 100EX concept.
Probably sporting the same huge engine in the Phantom, then cosseting the occupants in a womb of leather and timber, it’s not something for the shy and retiring. Neither, I fear, will the price be.
Rolls-Royce [via Jalopnik]
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The price? If you’re even worried about it, it’s obviously too much for you. I’ve always preferred the Bentleys myself. I don’t know why, but the Rolls seem showy and ostentatious whereas the Bentleys seem refined and retiring. Maybe it’s just me.
Oh Lord, yes. Despite the recent good press Royce still has the smack of “cheap old commedian” about it. Saying that, I’m not too impressed by the newer Bentleys, either - you have to go back to the Arnage for it to be a true blueblood.