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Originally Posted by Luwalira Is there anyone beside me here that doesn't like the look of the Phantom when it's two tone painted? |
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the two-tone colour scheme either Luwalira - but the two-tone silver combination works well I think.
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Originally Posted by emarati IMO this is the best RR ever. |
Well I wouldn't go quite that far emarati - it's certainly technically better than any other RR - and certainly a better vehicle than the Silver Shadow, Silver Spirit, Spur, Seraph etc.. - but to compare it directly with the older Phantoms is to misunderstand what the Phantom used to represent. The new Phantom is a very different type of limousine to the old Phantoms. For a start, in the past, no Phantom owner drove themselves, it was a car designed with a chauffeur in mind, a cabin partition was standard equipment and unlike today's Phantom, all the past ones were 100% hand-made to order and could be completely re-designed (both externally and internally) to the customers personal desires - it took nearly two years to build a single Phantom VI (1968-1991) - the old Phantoms were also a lot more expensive than the contemporary one.
As much as Rolls-Royce would hate to admit it, the current Phantom is in reality a production-line vehicle - something that would have completely abhorred the craftsmen who hand-built the old Phantoms.