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Spending that kind of wedge on a Ferrari/Lamborghini/Porsche I can understand (aside from the fact they won’t devalue like you’ve just driven them off a cliff by comparison), but a Range Rover…?!?!
Yeah but if your slightly portly better to step up into an armchair than drop into something you can’t get out of at your destination.
It does seem that as a society we’ve made a conscious decision that rather than combat inequality and poverty, or even acknowledge it, we’ll just cater to those that have instead, pandering exclusively to those with money by delivering ever more crass, vulgar and ostentatious ways to flaunt it.
Did you see that documentary a while ago about the 7* hotel in Dubai...?
You could buy gold-plated iPhones and diamond-encrusted handbags and all sorts of other wildly OTT rubbish just to show how much money you had to flaunt. The cars parked in the exclusive gold-plated garages made that Overfinch look cheap. Although they were still tacky and tasteless.
It does always amuse me though when i see someone in a £200,000 car stuck in the same queue of traffic as everyone else in their pauper-mobiles. Usually i see this as i'm crusing down the outside on a bicycle worth about £400.
Back in the day, the Overfinch offered a massive increase in performance over a standard RR. They used to swop the 3.5l Rover for a 5.7l Chevvy. It was a beast. They now seem to more about badges and trim.
Bugatti La Voiture Noire.
A snip at £9.5 million.
And I'm trying to justify spending £1500 on a Zafira GSI over a normal one at £700 as it might be a bit more fun to drive other than just boringly practical
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I did quite like Balotelli’s Bentley paintjob, just for the shear daftness of it. A sort of anti-bling
What's it look like?
Back in the day, the Overfinch offered a massive increase in performance over a standard RR. They used to swop the 3.5l Rover for a 5.7l Chevvy. It was a beast. They now seem to more about badges and trim
I think they got bought out by Khan.
They used to do power upgrades and major interior overhauls (like hunting set-ups) as well as some exterior stuff. Times changed and the money is was in the chav/footballer bodywork and interiors that Khan were doing rather than the "posh" stuff.
The car whole aftermarket tuning thing has changed massively as there are now very little gains to be had from what manufacturers get. Brabus and Alpina used to add major power to mercs and bmws, these days they are more about cosmetics. You can now buy an E-class with >600hp, there is not a lot left for someone else to get out of that! The V12 in the S65 can see up to 800hp. Admitedly Mercedes and JLR are doing a good enough job of chavving up their own cars these days.
I'm not a great fan of Boris Johnson's politics and I don't swallow his aimiable buffoon act, but when he was being harrassed by journalists at his home recently I couldn't but admire his choice of transport - a Toyota Previa, and an older one at that. He does have some class.
On the plus side, for every £180k spent, that’s £30k in VAT going into the public purse. The more of them they sell, the better.
RR are nice to be a passenger in though.
Think of those air shocks thinking at a billion milli secs like goose feather pillows tracking the ground.
Lurvely