Wraith advice/experience ?

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Following a 'life-changing' incident my much-loved 458 had to go as it wouldn't really have suited conversion to hand controls. Thoughts have turned to future motoring and I find the RR Wraith winking at me. Never owned or even driven that class of car, but somehow don't fancy starting with a Bentley, great machines though they are. So I'm hoping for advice or anecdotes on the Wraith from any current owners.

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No, the current (BMW) Wraith. I don't have the patience for a classic, gorgeous though some of them are.

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dazzalse said:

Its a great car, we've got a Phantom but have had a number of Ferrari's in the past, however I was intrigued when we were on a Ferrari track day last year and one of the drivers (who are all self employed) said of everything he had driven that year the most surprising car was the Wraith and he thought it was one of the best all round cars he had driven!
I actually then made a point of driving the car when I was at the factory last year and spend about 2 hours on the Goodwood track, it really is a great car felt as quick as my wife's California!

Yes, it's the 'sports' Rolls, isn't it? But one thing I'd like to find out is how much of a pain-in-the-ass it is from a maintenance perspective? Prior to the 458 I'd always found F-cars to be really pretty fragile. And that's just a euphemism for 'poorly put together'. How does the Wraith fit in? Is it back to the AD every few hundred miles for the next silly annoying bit of warranty work? Or will it do 10000 miles a year from service to service as reliably as a German box (usually) does?

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Thanks all for the enlightening replies (and the pics which just raised the Wraith lust level a couple of notches).

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bigmach said:

Have you taken the plunge yet may I ask?

Unfortunately there's been a slight setback. DVLA have revoked my licence!! Hopefully coming back in the not too distant future tho'.

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Poshbury said:

Sorry to read that braindrain.
Having re-read your OP I presume it's for med' reasons.
Good luck for the future.

Thanks for that old chap. But you're right. It's the side effects of morphine DVLA didn't like, but (as the doc has said to them via letter) I'm well off it now, so the licence should be coming back soon. However a strange thing's happened:

Like I suspect many on PH, I've loved cars since I was a wee nipper old enough to make brm brm noises as I rode my 3 wheeler around the house. But since the accident well (don't know how to say this) I've become sort of ambivalent to them. The missus thinks it's because I'm running on someone else's blood (mine having been left at the crash scene) and I'm beginning to wonder if she's right! I mean you know you've become ambivalent when you look on the Mobility website and you find yourself fancying the Skoda Superb above the BMW 320i

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cptsideways said:

No excuse to not get one, I'm sure plenty of chauffeur's will volunteer their services to waft you about in one, hope the issue gets resolved soon old chap.

Oi! I'm 63, not 93! (licence soon back - see above)