Posted on 10/12/2024 7:20:30 AM PDT by zeestephen
Rolls-Royce has opened its first US "Private Office," a secret VIP design studio for ultra-wealthy clients who want highly personalized cars...Once select customers order a car from a dealer, they can go to the Private Office to work with a designer to create an entirely personalized car.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
CNBC: "Creating a Bespoke Rolls can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the sticker price, which for a Rolls-Royce Phantom is just under $500,000, bringing the total sale price of some cars to more than $1 million."
Hmm...
I wonder how many illegals can sleep in them?
when will the first video of the “teenagers” be seeing ransacking it?
Right. If illegals can stay in luxury hotels, then why can’t they drive luxury cars? At taxpayer expense of course.
This will not end well.
Actually, in Kamala Harris’ world, the owners should give the Rolls to the illegals. Equity, you know.
If someone can afford one of these cars, they certainly have the means to give it a secure place to park.
Better not piss of the new York government, they could end up like President Trump. Idiots could have located somewhere more business friendly.
I sometimes see a Rolls for sale. They have amazingly low miles. The reason, there’s few safe places in park
I would love to get a 50s or 60s vintage Rolls and stuff a big block V8 in it. It would make a nice road tripper.
Rolls used GM automatic transmissions in their cars back in the day. I don’t know if that’s still the case.
My invitation for the grand opening must have been lost in the mail. Darn postal service.
Just for grins, I went to the RR website one day to try to get a feel for just how much one costs. (I could maybe afford a hubcap.). The website didn’t list any prices so I figured it really was the old adage: If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.
No trailer hitch? How are you going to feed the livestock without a trailer hitch?
From a separate article at the site, all aspects of American/Western culture continue to circle downward:
“The survey of more than 1,000 respondents with more than $3 million in investible assets also found that young philanthropists want more public attention for their giving compared to Gen Xers and baby boomers.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/10/wealthy-millennials-gen-z-are-redefining-philanthropy-.html
Engine, Transmission, and Performance
Prodigious power is provided by a silken 563-hp twin-turbo V-12 paired with an eight-speed automatic and rear-wheel drive. To say that the ride is smooth would be an understatement—imagine being carried aloft on a fluffy cloud. The Phantom practically levitates over the road; it features a pothole-spotting camera that helps the suspension adapt to road imperfections in real-time. It’s a library-quiet, sensory-deprivation cocoon.
We had a dealership nearby in the ‘70s and ‘80s when I was a kid. They were more expensive than Mercedes but not that much more.
They looked a whole lot better than the new ones do.
BTW if you can restore one yourself mail me. My cousin has one to sell. It’s a V8.
And I will need the optional roof rack for my kayaks.
I believe some have a base price of $400k - not that anyone actually pays that, it’s only the STARTING price. Then you add options, like “what kind of tapestry do you want on the headliner?”, or “I’d like to have the paint the same color as these three hairs from my dog”, then own the name & color where others can use it for a fee - it becomes part of their color catalog. I believe any wood trim used has the original tree stored, so if you need to replace some you get ‘new’ wood from the same tree.
It is an absurd level of luxury, made for those that want to display something nobody else has.
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