All Entries in the "ROLLS-ROYCE" Category
eBay: La Grande Corniche
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img Straightline Auto Group via eBay ::: 1987 Rolls-Royce Corniche II
I’M going to wax a little cantankerous for a moment so bear with me.
The trouble with giving car models simple alphanumeric handles (ex. “R8″ or “760Li”) is that they do little to market the passion behind what you’re driving. They’re very sterile descriptors that only car people truly grasp. Then again, assigning titles like “E320 Elegance” or “Lincoln Town Car Cartier Edition” is nauseatingly kitsch. But give a car a title that draws reference to a beautiful locale – “Ferrari California”, “Chevy Malibu”, or “Rolls-Royce Corniche” – and there we have clear reference to parts that anyone would love to explore from behind the wheel. It’s the simple things sometimes, non?
This lovely 1987 white-on-cream Rolls-Royce Corniche would doubtless do well wafting on its namesake route that winds along the Côte d’Azur. Then again, it might do just as well cruising the boulevards where the stars are bright, day and night.
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Design Study: 2012 Rolls-Royce Ghost EWB
Strength: Added length creates sleeker profile. Weakness: the small double moonroof.
Rolls-Royce: Putting The Ecstasy Into The Spirit
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img Rankin via Rolls-Royce
SEX sells. You know it. I know it. And it only took Rolls-Royce Motor Cars a hundred years to learn it. The marque once rigidly associated with champagne tailgating parties in the Cotswolds and references to Her Majesty the Queen is letting its hair down and sexing up its image to commemorate 100 years of the Spirit of Ecstasy and appeal to its new client base.
How so, you ask?
Rolls-Royce has commissioned a British photog called Rankin to capture some saucy – but generally tasteful – images of women who through visage or action are meant to remind us of the iconic spirit. Of course, Rolls-Royce isn’t the only super luxury marque to recently mix eroticism with brand promotion via the skills of renowned photographer.
But, hey, better to come late to the party than not to come at all.
Humble? Rolls-Royce Corniche
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 2001 Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible
CORNICHE and “humble” aren’t two words typically mated. The irony of the front plate on this ’01 Royce isn’t lost on us. Fact is few postwar rolling statements short of a drophead Cloud or Bentley Azure (on which this generation Corniche is based) make quite the same bold yet classically elegant statement that the driver is a man of A) exquisite taste and B) offshore tax havens. Judging by the scant 2700 miles on this Corniche’s clock, there’s still plenty of statement left to be made by the next owner.
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Rolls Ghost In Luscious Claret
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost
JUDGING from a brief tour behind the helm of one Ghost back in 2010, I found myself to be a fan. It’s a posh, plush, thoroughly modern chariot. That having been said, I’m not sure that I’m thrice the fan of the Ghost than I am the F01 generation BMW 750Li. But a lot can change in a year. Namely the price…
From The Archives: ADLX Grey Poupon Spoof
Tipped the hat to Lowe.
Sand Over Sable Silver Cloud II
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud for sale
AN excerpt on the Silver Cloud II from Anthony Bird and Ian Hallow’s oft cited text The Rolls-Royce Motor Car and Bentley Since 1931:
“Ordinary motor-cars have improved so much since the war that extraordinary ones like Rolls-Royces need to be superb to keep ahead.”
Indeed, it’s hard to consider a more timeless definition of the post-war luxury car than the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. And all these years on, the Silver Cloud II – more than the Silver Cloud III, even – represents that brilliant blend of Edwardian splendor meeting iron-clad engineering.
The clouds still represent the best in so many ways. And this Floridian “sand over sable” restored Cloud IIis one particularly attractive example.
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Life In The City Is A Three Way Street
3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: YouTube ::: 3-Way Street Video
SAW this first on Autoblog. It’s an impressive montage of bird’s eye view footage of a busy intersection in Manhattan. The video’s producer has taken the trouble of graphically adding circles and boxes representing cars, pedestrians, and cyclists and all set to a score that tips the hat to Spy Hunter. Needless to say, my own experience is affirmed in that the City’s cyclists are the scourge of the boroughs’ streets.
At 2:25, a slow turning Rolls-Royce Silver Spur nearly causes some $#!t with a cyclist and a Town Car. Funny stuff – from afar. One thing though, the producer claims that “car culture has ruled NYC since the 1950s.” Really? The City is car centric and accomodating? Compared to where? Rome?
Great video.
Rolling Prosperously: Red Corniche
by Gunnar Heinrich ::: img via eBay ::: 1980 Rolls-Royce Corniche
IN China, red marks the color of prosperity. For the Chinese a red Rolls-Royce is a road-going beacon that you’ve made bank in a very big way.
Well, a world away in the land of ten thousand lakes, there’s a 1980 Rolls-Royce Corniche for sale finished in what we can call fire-engine red. Apparently, the topless Royce’s paintwork was redone circa 1990-something according to the seller. And unfortunately the red does extend inside to the contrast piping on the seats (-gag-). But as statements go, three decades on, this Corniche is good fortune on wheels. All it needs now is a license plate with straight-8′s.
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