I'm still giggling at a highly sarcastic and snarky article about how truly over-the-top a personalized Rolls-Royce luxury car can become. A tip o' the hat to the anonymous reader who sent me the link. Here's just one paragraph to whet your appetite.
Rolls-Royce says the BLACK BADGE GHOST GAMER was "delivered to a tech entrepreneur", which somehow surpasses the American dog mom buyer of the SPECTRE BAILEY for obviousness. It also explains why the new owner wasn't worried about what women would think of his new car, because meeting a girl will be a theoretical concern for his entire life. Rolls-Royce, I should note, does not specify that the commissioning buyer is a man, but I am dead certain a woman's hand did not touch this car at any point in its construction.
There's much more at the link. I won't steal the author's thunder by reproducing it here; and besides, you really need to see the pictures to appreciate the length to which some car owners will go. Fortunately, they can pay Rolls-Royce (a lot!) to take them there.
Go read the whole thing.
Peter
The Gamer car gave me a flashbacks to the "A Car is Not a Toy" PSA of the 70s and 80s.
ReplyDeleteThere has always been and there will always be, people with more money than common sense....and taste.
ReplyDeleteCars like that are Mother Nature's way of saying "Woah, you have too much money for your own good. These people have a means to help."
ReplyDeleteAnd Rolls Royce is saying "Yes, it is better to give than to recieve. But some one has to do the receiving, and it might as well be us."
Not a fan of the color but to each his own. Now I could get behind the Donald Trump car. Yummy. If I could just remember where I hid the extra greenback's.
ReplyDeleteHonestly that gamer car looks awesome. Not five years of my income for just the base version awesome, but still
ReplyDeleteYeah, and the writer's picture checks out. Only thing that would be more perfectly "as expected" was if she had pink or blue hair. And I guarantee she has pics of her with those hair colors.
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"Rich people are like normal people, but they have ridiculous amounts of money to spend on themselves! News at 11!"
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Honestly, between Epstein's island and this kind of thing, this lady has messed up priorities. And I bet she'd excrete a brick if anyone pointed out that the reason the Sistine Chapel is/was available to the public is because it was churchmen, rich churchmen, who commissioned it. So she could have her public art...in a theocracy/a world where supporting the church grants prestige to the wealthy. I love that idea! Deus Vult!
That author sounds like an unbearable whiny liberal jerkoff.
ReplyDeleteI whole heartily agree. Who pee'd in her Wheaties? I don't understand the vitriol and anger of people like her at all.
DeleteRolls has always catered to the 'excess'... sigh...
ReplyDeleteIs it gay to like the custom painted headliner? If so I don't like it. If it's cool, I do like it. At $375K a copy, you should be able to customize as you are moved to. I can't imagine using a RR to haul a dog around but a lot of people have more more money than common sense. Maybe I'm not enough of a dog lover?
ReplyDeleteI was tempted to point out in her comments the contradiction inherent in her outrage at Rolls Royce employing so many of “the precious few working artists left on the planet." Clearly, in all of her time as an "automotive journalist," she never happened upon the notion that, if you make a skillset lucrative, you send to get more folks with that skillset...
ReplyDeleteThen I figured it would be a waste of time, so I noted it here instead.
I see a Rolls Royce or a Bentley every now and then, usually on a Saturday or Sunday, driven by a well dressed older person. I really don't care too much. I would not spend that kind of money on a car, and besides the fact, it screams "follow me home and rob me". To each their own, though. What gets me is the venom dripping from the writer's fingers. I would imagine that the highly skilled and dedicated artisans who build these cars and provide for their families would disagree with her.
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