Quick heads up: CH4 now, Inside Rolls Royce

[Cavcraft]

It's worth watching for the oddball with his metallic red and silver car he had made!

[trigger]

Didn't he say that he had 64 others?!

[kinkersaab]

Looked shit didnt it?i thought it looked like it had protective plastic on it and the wheels looked like the centre caps were missing.

[Cavcraft]

Loved that lady who was a dancer and 'used to the cameras.' She just seemed to look at herself in the mirror many times and say how she'd buy one, as she ambled round the test track.

[phil_lihp]

It's an interesting insight into how the other half live.  Nice to see that there's still a hand-made, bespoke aspect to the construction involving proper craftsman.

[Doctormop]

Just watched this and am convinced that Sir Henry Royce is spinning in his grave.

I was deeply saddened when Bristol motors went the way that it did but surely going into receivership with your dignity intact is better than the circus Rolls Royce seems to have become.

[Alexg]

Really enjoyed it. Super anal: 1/10th of a millimeter out? Send it back

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I love those Rolls-Royce Phantoms, they are a flipping work of art and seem more like what a R-R should be than anything that came out of Crewe since about 1985.

[HMC]

I suspect Henry Royce would have devoted more of the "shop floor" to engineering etc rather than a sort of boutique but the keepers of the brand (who is that now?) see it as a sort of fashion label.

 

Then again go back to the 20s,buy the chassis, go shopping for the body, same principal really, just a modern interpretation of it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Bentley now offer some sort of rosewood and leather dog basket in their accessory range - sheer class.

[jakebullet]

What's the price guess for the one with the B&Q sparkly kitchen laminate worktop door cappings?

[dugong]

What's the price guess for the one with the B&Q sparkly kitchen laminate worktop door cappings?

Several slaves, a plantation and possibly that attractive young producer from Channel 4.

 

Plus £230,000.

[jonny69]

That red and silver one was gopping. The owner's words were something along the lines of 'I now know I can park next to another Rolls Whateveritwas and know that no owner will get out of theirs and think his is better than mine'. I genuinely thought companies like Bentley and Rolls had a policy of not letting cars roll out looking like that.

 

I loved that guy Les, though, the West Country lottery winner. Most of the owners were banging on about the prestige and how important it was that it was English and how it makes them feel richer and more powerful, road presence, *all have serious face*, then cut to this guy Les in an old blue t-shirt and it's a massive grin from ear to ear and he's dead chuffed with his new Roller - loves the thing. Then we watch the rest of the programme, some curious German/English crossover, obscenely rich Arabs, more tasteless modifications, head honcho with an inappropriately tailored suit... and cut back to Les still wearing a huge grin and still enjoying his Roller

[cort16]

I need to watch this back on 4OD.

[brickwall]

Loved the dour Scotsman with an eye for perfection on the diamond star trimming. "Send it back!"

[twosmoke300]

Bet the diamond fitter loved him.

[fordperv]

That red specced up thing was terrible, I'm also sure that the centre caps were missing from the wheels, I said to the Mrs think how much shite I could buy with the amount of cash this weapon has spent on making his car look crap

[Junkman]

[RichL]

Half way through watching this I kept wondering what would happen if the engine management light came on two days after you took delivery.

Or the umbrella broke. Do dealers keep them in stock?

[rml2345]

^ Would it be whisked away in the dead of night on a covered transporter to be mended secretly by RR themselves? I remember something about a broken diff on a Silver Cloud. The owner who had it rung the dealers, who covered the car and took it away on a transporter. A few days later it was returned mended but with no bill or anything, so when the chap rung up to ask about what he owed them, they said "We've no idea what you mean sir, Rolls-Royces do not break down". Service like that would be absolutely class. 
Aso, those Phantoms are properly desirable INMO and even the Ghost makes the current Bentley output look like a dog's breakfast. 
I hope the rumours of an SUV are unfounded as that would be wrong on levels as yet undiscovered. 

[Heidel_Kakao]

http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/rolls.asp

[Cavcraft]

They possibly have dropped their radar a bit when it comes to buyers, but I expect people said the same in the 60s and 70s when people like that tosspot John Lennon were hand painting them or driving into swimming pools. Whatever, I don't expect RR mind too much anyhow, they're there to sell cars and they certainly seem to be doing so.

I had a ride in a Silver Spirit once years back, a bloke at work had one so we 'hired' him to take us to the works do at some swish hotel. Probably sounds corny but sitting in it was something else, it really did make you feel sort of special.

 

The other great story about Rollers was Jim Davidson saying he was being driven round Manchester in one years back now, and it got bricked. Pity the window wasn't open at the times, but you can't have everything.

[brickwall]

^ Would it be whisked away in the dead of night on a covered transporter to be mended secretly by RR themselves? I remember something about a broken diff on a Silver Cloud. The owner who had it rung the dealers, who covered the car and took it away on a transporter. A few days later it was returned mended but with no bill or anything, so when the chap rung up to ask about what he owed them, they said "We've no idea what you mean sir, Rolls-Royces do not break down". Service like that would be absolutely class. 

Aso, those Phantoms are properly desirable INMO and even the Ghost makes the current Bentley output look like a dog's breakfast. 

I hope the rumours of an SUV are unfounded as that would be wrong on levels as yet undiscovered. 

 

 

I had a friend at school who's family were utterly loaded with gold and their Bentley was picked up in a trailer for servicing and stuff and was covered. I assume they don't want people to see a Bentley on a trailer as they will assume its chucked a diff allover the road or something.

 

The Ferrari 308 they had broke down all the time.

[Junkman]

Friend of mine has clocked over 200k miles with his 308 and never had the slightest issue. It's still his daily driver and going strong.

 

After the Imperial production was moved from the Jefferson Avenue assembly plant in Detroit to an exclusive facility on Warren Avenue in Dearborn in 1959, you were able to visit the factory, watch your own car being built, and then drive off with it. Unless someone provides contrary evidence, this was the only company in automotive history, that ever allowed this. It lasted until 1967, when even the Imperials switched to 'Unibody' construction and thus joined the rest of the Mopar fleet in this respect, which were already monocoque since 1960.

[brickwall]

I always thought it depended on the mood of the factory worker back then.