RE: Rolls-Royce Phantom | The Brave Pill

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Hairymonster said:

Here he takes a few unsuspecting onlookers for a little ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOytAqUr6UE

What I don't understand is how he managed to wreck a 6.75 V12 in 190,000KM - about 120,000 miles. That engine is so understressed.

Chestrockwell said:

There’s a RR Phantom in Japan that a man used as his daily until the engine was blown, I recall him swapping it with a 2JZ engine from a Supra, let me find the link.

https://youtu.be/0Mg34Cu40Ds

Epic

[Water Fairy]

That interior really hasn't aged well at all has it? I'm referring to the design rather than wear.

[Greg the Fish]

Leins said:

Greg the Fish said:

My favourite feature is the umbrella store in the doors.

Mine is the static centre cap on each wheel. Saves the chauffeur a job aligning them all

They're weighted not static.

[Turbobanana]

sidewinder500 said:

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So, just to be clear, you like it?

[Schermerhorn]

How "complicated" are these really? The electronics are early 2000s BMW which most technicians will be familiar with and I've never known any issues with the V12.....

[J4CKO]

Not sure if its been mentioned byut Hoovies garage has one, some pretty good warts and all videos, I watched them a while back and it wasnt too horrendous but everything is pricey as you would expect, the odd BMW parts bin victory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oB13oXBTHQ

Its funny but aging roller can sometimes look a bit down at heel, maybe these arent old enough yet, but I dont think they ever will, they are such a rare sight.

All Rolls have gravitas but, for me anyway, these took it up several notches over the Shadow, Spirit, Seraph era, to a level more akin to the fifties and before, an older Shadow twenty years ago could have whiff of scrap dealer done well or wedding hire and these dont seem to, they seem to hang on to the vibe they had when new.

Makes a Bentley Silver Spur look a bit ordinary (the older one anyway), they are just so separate, dignified and imposing, sort of like something created to be used in a film.

Would I want one, er, would love a go of one but would feel like the Rich Uncle Pennybags (Monopoly guy) driving one and be terrified of having to park it as its bigger than most car parks, never mind parking spaces.

[Shakermaker]

mooseracer said:

Greg the Fish said:

My first encounter with one of these was when I was in a Caterham in fairly slow moving traffic on the M25 when one of these looked up alongside.

Huge.

Magnificent things.

My favourite feature is the umbrella store in the doors.

Buy a Skoda Superb and save a load then

I've got one for sale with the original umbrella, if you're interested Greg?

Nearly as much rear legroom as the Phantom as well, and less than 10% of the price of this used example?

[RobM77]

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A Winner Is You said:

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PH said:

The word "purple" in any car advertisement is likely to get the reader's face pre-winced.

Why do you constantly propagate the view that anything not black, silver or grey is undesirable? Are you sponsored by a paint manufacturer with an extremely limited range?

To be fair, looking around any car park shows most car buyers think the same way

Yup, because the market has been conditioned to think that way.

I'm fairly sure this isn't about colour; it's about tastefulness. Most people buying an enormous Rolls Royce costing as much as the average UK house price will want to balance out its ostentatiousness somewhat with a subtle colour. Furthermore, they'll want a colour that suits the mood of the styling, in a way that a 7 series would look utterly awful in bright red, but a Ferrari of course doesn't.

This Roller happens to look great in its dark purple paintwork, but as the article says, anyone reading 'purple' might have visions of John Lennon's Rolls in their mind!

On a closing note, the ubiquity of greys and silvers on cars these days has far more to do with the types of car popular these days than it has the colour itself. Today I'm driving a Kermit green MINI, and it looks great, but looking around our office car park, there are very few other cars that I think would look good in this colour - funnily enough the ones that do have small perky styling, like the Fiat 500. A 5 series? No.

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sidewinder500 said:

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Rolls Royce owners do not talk this way.

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Gameface said:

sidewinder500 said:

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Rolls Royce owners do not talk this way.

They may not talk that way - but they apparently sing that way:-

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/picturegaller...


https://youtu.be/hFDcoX7s6rE

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As mentioned the Youtuber Hoovie bought the cheapest Phantom in the US a year or two ago with a myriad of faults, and since resolving them he's found it to be very reliable. I think the stand out costs were a same coolant pipe in the V of the engine leaking that the V8 BMW engines from that era suffer, and the need to change the wheels as the originals had some weird run flat tyres that are NLA.

I bet this wouldn't be any worse to run than a W220 S-Class with their "Benz by Chrysler" engineering and "steel by Soviet Russia" bodywork.

[Greg the Fish]

Shakermaker said:

mooseracer said:

Greg the Fish said:

My first encounter with one of these was when I was in a Caterham in fairly slow moving traffic on the M25 when one of these looked up alongside.

Huge.

Magnificent things.

My favourite feature is the umbrella store in the doors.

Buy a Skoda Superb and save a load then

I've got one for sale with the original umbrella, if you're interested Greg?

Nearly as much rear legroom as the Phantom as well, and less than 10% of the price of this used example?

Funnily enough I went in the rear of a Superb for the first time just the other week (taxi) and was astonished by the space (6'6" and long legs!). Was vast.

Not quite in the same league though.

[Shakermaker]

Greg the Fish said:

Funnily enough I went in the rear of a Superb for the first time just the other week (taxi) and was astonished by the space (6'6" and long legs!). Was vast.

Not quite in the same league though.

No, it isn't, but was much more in my price range