Geneva '08 Preview: Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe breaks cover

[Vector]

Originally Posted by klutch

There's a guy at work that has the 4-door, and he looks like an idiot getting into it with his suit on; he looks like a chauffeur.

Isn't that a saying? Cheaper than a guy who buys a Rolls Royce and then drives it himself.

[Hercules286]

Man them.

[Koppel]

If I'd see this in person my jaw would drop to the ground.

Only the superrich could ever own one. It doesn't look like a normal car, its so much over everything else that it makes you feel like shit when your close to it, no matter what supercar you drive.

Rolls Royce to me is just so elegant that it has nothing to prove, it just IS.

[evans]

Originally Posted by klutch

Moreover, what's the point...in general? The Phantom is not a car to drive, its a car in which to be driven. For obvious reasons, coupe's are centered around the driver, not the passenger. An 18-foot, 7000 pound car is not a drivers' car.

There's a guy at work that has the 4-door, and he looks like an idiot getting into it with his suit on; he looks like a chauffeur.

Everytime I read about this car, in fact every time I see somebody driving his BMW 7-series or his Rolls Royce, Maybach or whatever, I think to myself he must be a complete fool.
They are all great cars, no doubt about that - but as the owner you're not supposed to be driving them.

As for this specific coupé then, it's completely pointless. No matter how good it is to drive, how awesome an experience that is, I would feel like a complete idiot driving it around because I just know that job should be up to my chauffeur.
I guess it all comes down to the fact that these cars are built around the passenger and not the driver. So when you buy one and all you do is drive it around instead of being driven around in the passenger seat, you're basically just wasting money. All the luxury features are there to make the passenger to enjoy the ride, and as a driver you're unable to enjoy any of those features.

[eLIX]

Originally Posted by klutch

Moreover, what's the point...in general? The Phantom is not a car to drive, its a car in which to be driven. For obvious reasons, coupe's are centered around the driver, not the passenger. An 18-foot, 7000 pound car is not a drivers' car.

There's a guy at work that has the 4-door, and he looks like an idiot getting into it with his suit on; he looks like a chauffeur.

I second that!