RE: Rolls-Royce Wraith confirmed

[FarmerJim]

TomN94 said:

This is the original Wraith, right?



So, would it follow that shape do we think? Maybe something like this?



Its a terrible photoshop, but the best I could find.

Expect something closer to a modern reworking of this:

[BlueMR2]

Is this another 7 series with a big grill and suicide doors?

[vrooom]

Other car for upcoming footballer then !!

[vescaegg]

V16 V16 V16

Edited by vescaegg on Friday 18th January 22:05

[mybrainhurts]

BlueMR2 said:

Is this another 7 series with a big grill and suicide doors?

Rumoured inspiration....

[carl_w]

Love this pic:


Where does the original come from?

[Pothole]

carl_w said:

Love this pic:


Where does the original come from?

Fags?

[Dan Trent]

That's the pic supplied with the press release. More to be drip fed over the coming weeks in the build up to Geneva, we're promised.

Cheers,

Dan

[okie592]

A shooting break style car would be the best car ever made! Lashing of leather and a load bay

[DonkeyApple]

okie592 said:

A shooting break style car would be the best car ever made! Lashing of leather and a load bay

A perfect solution to anyone who's ever needed a classy way to take a corpse to the skip.

[FisiP1]

vescaegg said:

V16 V16 V16

Edited by vescaegg on Friday 18th January 22:05

That'd go down well in this day and age.

Would be a dream come true for most of us though, but I'm afraid I don't even know what a V16 sounds like! I know they made one or two and put them in special edition phantoms, but I don't pay much attention to one-offs like that.

Speaking of which, any V14 cars? Or any reason why that's a really bad idea.

Edited by FisiP1 on Saturday 19th January 00:07

[CraigyMc]

DonkeyApple said:

okie592 said:

A shooting break style car would be the best car ever made! Lashing of leather and a load bay

A perfect solution to anyone who's ever needed a classy way to take a corpse to the skip.

Or to take one's posh chum's wife dogging...

C

[JuniorJet]

CraigyMc said:

DonkeyApple said:

okie592 said:

A shooting break style car would be the best car ever made! Lashing of leather and a load bay

A perfect solution to anyone who's ever needed a classy way to take a corpse to the skip.

Or to take one's posh chum's wife dogging...

C

Oh this thread has gone so low...

[Ali_T]

Hmmm. While Aston, Jag, LR and Lotus have managed to keep their identities under foreign ownership, I really feel that Bentley and RR, like Mini, have become caricatures of their former glories. I doubt this will change my mind. Another cynically re-engineered BMW no doubt.

[Ali_T]

FisiP1 said:

I'm afraid I don't even know what a V16 sounds like!

Your wish is granted. Doubt the Rolls version would be as interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOfmcfPsLwo

[NRS]

Video which shows a few bits of the car.

http://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/reveal/

[Gizmoish]

FisiP1 said:

That'd go down well in this day and age.

Would be a dream come true for most of us though, but I'm afraid I don't even know what a V16 sounds like! I know they made one or two and put them in special edition phantoms, but I don't pay much attention to one-offs like that.

Speaking of which, any V14 cars? Or any reason why that's a really bad idea.

Edited by FisiP1 on Saturday 19th January 00:07

V14 would vibrate really oddly.

[Cyrus1971]

I have always thought RR's are named appropriately for owners who are all but dead on the inside.

[BlueMR2]

mybrainhurts said:

BlueMR2 said:

Is this another 7 series with a big grill and suicide doors?

Rumoured inspiration....

Maybe it'll be better in snow than a 7 series then .

[FarmerJim]

Ali_T said:

Hmmm. While Aston, Jag, LR and Lotus have managed to keep their identities under foreign ownership, I really feel that Bentley and RR, like Mini, have become caricatures of their former glories. I doubt this will change my mind. Another cynically re-engineered BMW no doubt.

You could not possibly be more wrong. It would appear that you have never driven a modern Royce? Having driven plenty, old and new, I can say without fear of contradiction that the current RR range, especially the Phantom, embodies all the qualities one would expect to find in a true Royce. A significantly better car than the previous generation models and absolutely nothing like driving any BMW.