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Rolls-Royce Sweptail sails into record books
This is MONEY.co.uk ^ | PUBLISHED: 08:14 EDT, 27 May 2017 | | By RAY MASSEY

Posted on 05/29/2017 4:55:36 AM PDT by Macoozie

The highly-personalised two-seater Rolls-Royce Sweptail, which takes its styling cues from luxury yachts, is believed to be the most expensive new car ever built and harks back to the ‘golden age’ of grand touring.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: cars; griswold; rolls
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Styling cues from the Griswolds?


1 posted on 05/29/2017 4:55:36 AM PDT by Macoozie
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To: Macoozie

sorry about the JumboTron.
Pressed the wrong button.
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa . . .


2 posted on 05/29/2017 4:59:33 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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Doesn’t look real promising from the standpoint of rear visibility / driver’s side blind spot (but I guess that’s the chauffeur’s problem).


3 posted on 05/29/2017 5:02:40 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Macoozie

Had an 87 crown Vic wagon. Great station wagon. Always wanted the family truckster option.


4 posted on 05/29/2017 5:04:48 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Unbelievable, all that money spent on design and manufacturing and they put the steering wheel on the wrong side..........


5 posted on 05/29/2017 5:05:44 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If a cow ever got the chance, heÂ’d eat you and everyone you ever cared about.)
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Probably one of the ugliest RR’s to date. But then again, it’s all about making a statement, isn’t it? This picture looks like some of the facade of the front end is missing, or ?


6 posted on 05/29/2017 5:06:24 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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Fugly.


7 posted on 05/29/2017 5:06:30 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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The stern looks good, but the bow is homely, at best.


8 posted on 05/29/2017 5:06:50 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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An English luxury car owned by Germans...


9 posted on 05/29/2017 5:08:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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The back end looks like a 70s Buick Riviera.


10 posted on 05/29/2017 5:11:56 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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Needs a great, big E


11 posted on 05/29/2017 5:12:50 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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It certainly gets the “Ugly Award” for 2017.


12 posted on 05/29/2017 5:17:06 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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After learning to love Due South in reruns, I saw some of the appeal of Ray's Riviera.


13 posted on 05/29/2017 5:17:48 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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Seems like I've seen this style concept before...

Hmm.

14 posted on 05/29/2017 5:17:50 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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I had an idiot PHB that could barely string three words together most of the time.

He could never manage jumbotron. He always said jimbotron.


15 posted on 05/29/2017 5:18:51 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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Those cars and trucks with LED wrapped headlights are some of the ugliest vehicles I’ve ever seen.


16 posted on 05/29/2017 5:21:18 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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Definitely outside the box styling.

17 posted on 05/29/2017 5:42:39 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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UGGGGLY!


18 posted on 05/29/2017 5:48:35 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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C’mon guys.

This is some dude’s dream and he spent $10 million for it and there is only one...luckily....

For $10 million Rolls will make your ugly dream come true....in style...


19 posted on 05/29/2017 5:51:41 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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A stunning one-off customised Rolls-Royce with an estimated £10 million price tag swept into the record books when the wraps came off today.

They're only building one? Oh, man....and I was just getting ready to trade in my 2009 Ford Escape.

20 posted on 05/29/2017 6:02:44 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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