RE: £20m Rolls-Royce Boat Tail opens 'Coachbuilt'
Discussion
Venturist said:
However, it is encouraging to see coachbuilding coming back again, slowly but surely.
Edited by Venturist on Thursday 27th May 17:53
Martin 480 Turbo said:
Venturist said:
If really "coachbuilt" in the vain of "the great gatsby" they should have stayed true to that sketch. If it means the Roller becomes a 36 foot yacht, so be it. Reducing it to plebeian measurements seems a shameful waste of opportunity.Absolutely disgusting thing in every sense. The styling, the price tag, the ostentation etc...
Also, normal sized people always seem to look comically tiny in these enormous convertibles, especially when they have the roof down for some reason.
I'd like to think that if I could ever afford to spend £20 million on a trinket like this, I'd remember that just because I can, it doesn't mean I should.
Also, normal sized people always seem to look comically tiny in these enormous convertibles, especially when they have the roof down for some reason.
I'd like to think that if I could ever afford to spend £20 million on a trinket like this, I'd remember that just because I can, it doesn't mean I should.
As a caricature of the lack of correlation between money and sense it is hilarious, in a “naked gun” kind of way.
I just wonder whether the damage each of these things create to what remains of the Royce brand exceeds or not the £19.5m net profit it will likely bring into bmw’s bank account?
I just wonder whether the damage each of these things create to what remains of the Royce brand exceeds or not the £19.5m net profit it will likely bring into bmw’s bank account?
When extreme wealth gets to someone's head and they feel the need to invest in something like this, so they can mingle with similarly monied types, then they have kind of lost touch with reality.
A car collector buying a 250GTO is buying something he loves. Buying one of these things is to illustrate that you can.
I read that Warren Buffet, one of the top 3 or 4 wealthiest people in the world, still lives in a modest house he's had for over 50 years and treats himself to a new Cadillac every 3 years. He was interviewed once and asked why he'd never bought some white-washed mansion with helipad, swimming pools, manicured lawns and more.
He said "Would I be happier living in a house worth $100 million? Not really. What would change is that all the friends and family that have always dropped in any time or come round for lunch, would stop doing so. For them, it would change who I am and I don't really want that, nor do i need it." *words to that effect.
A car collector buying a 250GTO is buying something he loves. Buying one of these things is to illustrate that you can.
I read that Warren Buffet, one of the top 3 or 4 wealthiest people in the world, still lives in a modest house he's had for over 50 years and treats himself to a new Cadillac every 3 years. He was interviewed once and asked why he'd never bought some white-washed mansion with helipad, swimming pools, manicured lawns and more.
He said "Would I be happier living in a house worth $100 million? Not really. What would change is that all the friends and family that have always dropped in any time or come round for lunch, would stop doing so. For them, it would change who I am and I don't really want that, nor do i need it." *words to that effect.
JPvanRossem said:
PhantomPH said:
1,000 Fiesta STs. A THOUSAND.
I can understand why someone would want this Roller. Can't understand why someone would want a thousand Fiestas.
How about:
250 Porsche GT4s or
133 Porsche GT3s or
60 Rolls Royce Phantoms or
44 Ferrari SF90s
It's not about the car - I was trying to illustrate the materials and engineering that £20m buys you - and then trying to rationalise it to one new car that is essentially a Phantom Drophead with a new body on.
Again, with the rest of my original comment that you did not quote, this is not a car that has attained value due to rarity or heritage - it's a new car that someone has tacked a 6,000% mark up on.
Hairymonster said:
When extreme wealth gets to someone's head and they feel the need to invest in something like this, so they can mingle with similarly monied types, then they have kind of lost touch with reality.
A car collector buying a 250GTO is buying something he loves. Buying one of these things is to illustrate that you can.
I read that Warren Buffet, one of the top 3 or 4 wealthiest people in the world, still lives in a modest house he's had for over 50 years and treats himself to a new Cadillac every 3 years. He was interviewed once and asked why he'd never bought some white-washed mansion with helipad, swimming pools, manicured lawns and more.
He said "Would I be happier living in a house worth $100 million? Not really. What would change is that all the friends and family that have always dropped in any time or come round for lunch, would stop doing so. For them, it would change who I am and I don't really want that, nor do i need it." *words to that effect.
I forget which documentary I watched, but every morning when he goes to the office his wife gives him a few dollars to buy an egg muffin on the way. If the markets are up, he will treat himself to an extra item for another 70 cents (or equally as trivial an amount). That's actually the sort of other end of the spectrum - I would encourage the guy to spend a bit of his money and allow himself the treats every day.A car collector buying a 250GTO is buying something he loves. Buying one of these things is to illustrate that you can.
I read that Warren Buffet, one of the top 3 or 4 wealthiest people in the world, still lives in a modest house he's had for over 50 years and treats himself to a new Cadillac every 3 years. He was interviewed once and asked why he'd never bought some white-washed mansion with helipad, swimming pools, manicured lawns and more.
He said "Would I be happier living in a house worth $100 million? Not really. What would change is that all the friends and family that have always dropped in any time or come round for lunch, would stop doing so. For them, it would change who I am and I don't really want that, nor do i need it." *words to that effect.
MDL111 said:
Martin 480 Turbo said:
Venturist said:
If really "coachbuilt" in the vain of "the great gatsby" they should have stayed true to that sketch. If it means the Roller becomes a 36 foot yacht, so be it. Reducing it to plebeian measurements seems a shameful waste of opportunity.E63eeeeee... said:
My normal redistributionist instincts are occasionally slightly undermined when I remember that some spectacular and amazing things have been created by concentrated wealth, that wouldn't otherwise exist, and the world would be a slightly sadder place for it.
This is not one of those things.
For that kind of money you could have a ludicrously nice hypercar, a butler in a sprinter with a full luxury dining set in the back, and a years worth of quails eggs, and still have £18m and change to give to charity (or build a hospital or whatever). Maybe I'd be a rubbish billionaire.
I think you would make a very good billionaire sir. Do you have an application form for the role of butler? And how much are you paying? This is not one of those things.
For that kind of money you could have a ludicrously nice hypercar, a butler in a sprinter with a full luxury dining set in the back, and a years worth of quails eggs, and still have £18m and change to give to charity (or build a hospital or whatever). Maybe I'd be a rubbish billionaire.
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