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Car Forum / BMW Cars / June 20072008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe
A line of cypress trees marches to the horizon in perfectly ordered ranks, defining the borders of this dusty Tuscan trail... http://automobnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/2008-rolls-royce-phantom-drophead-coupe.html >A line of cypress trees marches to the horizon in perfectly ordered ranks, >defining the borders of this dusty Tuscan trail... > >http://automobnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/2008-rolls-royce-phantom-drophead-coupe.html Not really a load of crap but who here would buy one - They make then up the road from me and see 1 or 2 every day. Actually in real life they are quite ugly and so is the real RR and the limo - the VW Bentley looks nicer but still a bloody BARGE. The new one is really a re-bodied BMW 760 V12 >>A line of cypress trees marches to the horizon in perfectly ordered ranks, >>defining the borders of this dusty Tuscan trail... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > a > bloody BARGE. The new one is really a re-bodied BMW 760 V12 I thought they stopped using BMW V12 engines because they had to be thrashed quite hard to drag all that metal around... Il Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:04:57 +0200, TDR911 ha scritto: > http://automobnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/2008-rolls-royce-phantom-drophead-coupe.html la faccia mi ricorda qualcosa di quella della land rover defender...  Signatureciao! muffola >Il Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:04:57 +0200, TDR911 ha scritto: > >> http://automobnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/2008-rolls-royce-phantom-drophead-coupe.html > >la faccia mi ricorda qualcosa di quella della land rover defender... AND? What an UGLY looking car. With all the BMW expertise and UK designers RR are still pandering to the Chinless wonders with more money than sense or style. With that sort of cash - 250K GB pounds or $500K US there are prettier, smoother and logical cars about. This isn't about engineering as it has basically the same underpinnings as my 7 series it's about stupidity. I have owned several RR and the best was the last Shadow especially for looks, practicality and usability. I was in the "trade" so don't think rich bastard down in the world and sour grapes. No - RR are really UGLY in the flesh. Il Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:21:45 +0100, Oscar ha scritto: > What an UGLY looking car Right! Signatureciao! muffola > I have owned several RR and the best was the last Shadow especially for > looks, practicality and usability. I was in the "trade" so don't think > rich bastard down in the world and sour grapes. The six cylinder Cloud or Bentley S1 was IMHO the best looking standard bodied R-R ever - and the last before they complicated things with servo everything. So an ideal car for the enthusiast to maintain at home. It was also the first model with power steering so perfectly suitable for modern use. But the market realises this - Shadows can be bought for pennies but a Cloud will cost serious money. Oh - I agree the present Rolls and Bentley are positively hideous, the lot of them. They seem to be designed to look imposing, and that's something that never works. Signature*Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? * Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. >> I have owned several RR and the best was the last Shadow especially for >> looks, practicality and usability. I was in the "trade" so don't think [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >use. But the market realises this - Shadows can be bought for pennies but >a Cloud will cost serious money. I love the looks of the Cloud, especially the series I, but I think the Shadow is coming into it's own. I wound up with a '66 Shadow a while back simply because it combined reasonably modern, classy looks with the interior class and style of the Cloud. I bought mine on eBay for $7000 in 2001; it sold at auction last November for $19,200 two owners later. Blatchley hit his stride with that car, imo. Sure, people grouse about the complexity of the Shadows, but that's relative. To a group used to working on Clouds and Dawns, a Shadow is complex; not to someone used to working on more modern cars (or even old Citroens, for that matter). Twenty years from now, I'd rather maintain a Series I Silver Shadow than an E65 745i! (Though I'd dread filling that 28-gallon tank in the RR. :)) epbrown -- How can you know where I'm at if you haven't been where I been? Can you see where I'm coming from? "How I Could Just Kill A Man" Cypress Hill |
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