inside rolls royce - on ch4 last week
Discussion
anyone watch this last week ? thought it was going to be a great advert for rolls, instead it just showed a lot of people talking about how driving rolls was good for their image ! it also showed cars with tacky customisations like the phanthom with ' diamond' lights in roof . it showed an eastend type character going to view his wraith with about £100k worth of extras at the factory and saying how he doesn't want someone to roll up at the lights with a nicer one than his. how did rolls think this was good for the brand ?
Just terrible. So OCD about everything, from grass length to diamonds being 4 thou' out and an almost invisible crack....
The only likeable person, I thought, was the Abu Dhabi dealer.
I really hoped the diamond installer bloke was going to deck the Scots quality controller. Now THAT would have been good viewing!
The only likeable person, I thought, was the Abu Dhabi dealer.
I really hoped the diamond installer bloke was going to deck the Scots quality controller. Now THAT would have been good viewing!
People with real money (lottery winners excluded) wouldn't lower themselves to appear on such a programme. A few egotists and a faked example of QRing gone mad. The guy in Abu Dhabi has it made as they are like buying a pair of shoes over there and they are all having a bad case of one upmanship.
I like the wraith. Cool doors. But not if one of those self serving pratts has one thank you.
I like the wraith. Cool doors. But not if one of those self serving pratts has one thank you.
The Goldsmith was stitched up by so called experts within the R-R wood-shop who knew the task was impossible and failure was inevitable. Shame on them!
I felt so sorry for him. Apart from (no doubt) losing money he was publicly humiliated in front of a viewing audience who, without expert knowledge, saw him as a fool and the Rolls-Royce QC guy as some kind of a Guru.
It is reasonable to expect a Goldsmith to construct the precious metal mounts and take responsibility for the stone setter he employed to fix the diamonds. Expecting him to mount the product of his expertise in an unstable substrate however was entirely ridiculous.
The "tiny crack" used as an excuse to reject is insignificant as every clean drilling made through a lacquered surface leaves a weak point liable to lifting. That's why these finishes fail at corners, edges, chips, instrument apertures and wherever the coating ends.
I felt so sorry for him. Apart from (no doubt) losing money he was publicly humiliated in front of a viewing audience who, without expert knowledge, saw him as a fool and the Rolls-Royce QC guy as some kind of a Guru.
It is reasonable to expect a Goldsmith to construct the precious metal mounts and take responsibility for the stone setter he employed to fix the diamonds. Expecting him to mount the product of his expertise in an unstable substrate however was entirely ridiculous.
The "tiny crack" used as an excuse to reject is insignificant as every clean drilling made through a lacquered surface leaves a weak point liable to lifting. That's why these finishes fail at corners, edges, chips, instrument apertures and wherever the coating ends.
Edited by Byteme on Tuesday 13th May 23:00
Edited by Byteme on Wednesday 14th May 00:30
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