Thursday 7th October 2010

The Diva: The Rolls From The Twilight Zone

Fans of taste and decency look away now - Fenice Milano plans a strange Rolls

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It takes quite a lot to make a Mansory-tweaked car look like a paragon of subtle good taste but this, the Fenice Milano Diva, manages it.

It's been created by an Italian company called Fenice Milano, which has taken all the subtlety and measured good taste of a Rolls-Royce Ghost and, er, thrown it away.

Instead, Fenice Milano has splashed 24-karat gold pretty much everywhere. The grille, side sills, bonnet and mirrors have been covered with the stuff. Inside, there's more gold to keep the bespoke teak, leather and Alcantara trim company. Persons of taste and good breeding need not apply...

Inevitably, the underpinnings have also been fettled, with the predictable ECU tweak, and what the Fenice Milano press release describes rather unnervingly as the 'optimization of the exhaust and suction system'.

The only saving grace is that the car - so far - doesn't appear to be real, just the fevered imaginings of the fine people at Fenice Milano.

And if you're wondering just who these people are, so were we. And the company website doesn't really help: "Fenice Milano is a project born in 2008 from the intuition of a young entrepreneur, who decided to invest in the development of an activity in line with the tendencies of the actual market and entering the market of custom luxury cars, to offer his clients the chance to make their car a concrete realization of their personal spirit." Right..

 

[308mate]

Apparently if you buy a rear-facing car you get bigger tyre profiles...


I like the colours, just cant see the point in taking all RR's hard work on ride and comfort and shafting it with a set 35 profile licorice strips.

[louismchuge]

Gulzar!!!!

[spurs-442]

louismchuge said:

Gulzar!!!!

+1 your thread has arrived

[biggrim]

I'm glad I haven't eaten my lunch yet!

[Rusty-C]

[lionrampant]

That's got a 5.something rating on the PH meter*. That means some of you have given this a reasonable rating.

Speak up now and we'll make the execution painless...

Edit: *alright it's 4.5 now... but still.

Edited by lionrampant on Thursday 7th October 11:27

[Bahnstormer]

Henry Royce must be turning in his grave !

[Fluffsri/?]

MINGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cassius81]

Am surprised that Roll Royce allow this...

But then I guess its pretty hard to police what people do to cars or images that they own... Pity.

[ctallchris]

lionrampant said:

That's got a 5.something rating on the PH meter*. That means some of you have given this a reasonable rating.

Speak up now and we'll make the execution painless...

Edit: *alright it's 4.5 now... but still.

Edited by lionrampant on Thursday 7th October 11:27

2.44...

[TonyHetherington]

I don't think that's as bad as some are saying.

The wheels are horrid, but the styling is quite modern and not tacky - even the interior, save for a few 24karat extremities.

I would not choose one over a standard car, but I don't think it's the extreme of ugly that Gemballa or other such companies are famed for.

[patmahe]

Who looks at these things and thinks, oh my that is lovely yes I'll spend (insert crazy sum here) to have that. Seriously who are the actual customers for these cars, there can't be that many footballers and rappers with such terrible taste and lots of money can there?

Ah no I clicked the rate it thing by accident and it said I gave it a 4, my arse I did.

Edited by patmahe on Thursday 7th October 11:47

[Denorth]

bloody hell.... 2.38 and going down

By the way there are reports in Germany that Uwe Gemball was found dead in South Africa

[kevseymour]

Does the logo on the steering wheel/seats look like a seagull trying to crap out a dolphin to anyone else?

[bosscerbera]

Fenice Milano said:

Fenice Milano is a project born in 2008 from the intuition of a young entrepreneur, who decided to invest in the development of an activity in line with the tendencies of the actual market and entering the market of custom luxury cars, to offer his clients the chance to make their car a concrete realization of their personal spirit.

Looks like a teenage dreamer's uni project.

[tolksee]

Interesting passenger safety design with the buckle on the same side of the seat as the seatbelt....

Sheesh, at least get the photoshopping right...

I feel it needs one of these to finish it off, innit:

Edited by tolksee on Thursday 7th October 12:27

[dlockhart]

Aimed purely at oil producing countries - whether that be the middle east or russian - I am surprised reworking the cosmetics still makes column inches here

[SleeperCell]

TonyHetherington said:

I don't think that's as bad as some are saying.

The wheels are horrid, but the styling is quite modern and not tacky - even the interior, save for a few 24karat extremities.

I would not choose one over a standard car, but I don't think it's the extreme of ugly that Gemballa or other such companies are famed for.

I'm going to assume you are somehow viewing the pictures in greyscale.

[Reload]

It reminds me of the jewellery pages in the Argos catalogue.

[Alfitsi]

They have mananged to make one of the most elegant cars i've ever seen look like a Rover 75. This is not good.
In the words of Dolly Parton, "It costs a lot to look this cheap." How very true.