Forgive me for starting with a terrible cliché, but… you know that whole thing about ‘if you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it’?
Well, when I first set eyes on Rolls-Royce Sweptail, a bespoke one-off motor created by the firm on commission, my first thought was ‘how much?’ And I’m a journalist, so… I really had to ask.
The launch of the @rollsroycecars Sweptail at Lake Como in Italy pic.twitter.com/TBKHtBi3QM
— Autocar (@autocar) May 27, 2017
Predictably, Rolls-Royce weren’t saying. A figure of £10million has been bandied around which is… kind of ridiculous. £10m would just about buy you five Bugatti Chirons. Or, if you prefer, 1430 Dacia Sanderos.
And yet, once you wrap your head around what Sweptail is, £10m doesn’t seem quite so wildly outlandish. Actually, outlandish is a fitting word to describe Sweptail. You could also use extravagant. Ostentatious. Magnificent. Grand. Majestic. And, yes, excessive.
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sabre
Censorship
Gone to graveyards, everyone.
Is Autocar censored for comments about cars costing over one million?
artill
Yes, it looks like they didnt
soldi
Rear overhang
abkq
Indeed, where have all the
Yes, the rear overhang, as @soldi observed, is hopelessly unbalanced. This is made worse by the ultra-thick C-pillar which pushes the visual weight further to the back.
And I thought no RR front could be worse than the flat-face Camargue. Well I am wrong, this is grotesque, designed to attract attention, to provoke. If attraction through being beautiful fails, the alternative strategy is to provoke through being ugly.
James Attwood
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Peter Cavellini
Well?!
Peter Cavellini.
Ski Kid
agree with you Peter
MarkII
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Einarbb
The profile is acceptable
scrap
I don't think this is the
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