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Even though it's effectively an advert, the quality of the cars and the workmanship involved is pretty epic. Makes ya proud.... 🙂
I thought it was pretty obscene to be honest!
They seemed to spend too much time worrying about the height of diamonds and not enough on sorting out their shonky umbrella dispenser and flying lady mechanism.
a very sad programe,when people are going hungry in the world .
Frankly it just told me that there are a lot of very shallow, but very rich people in this world
It succeeded in confirming the metric of my life's success will not be money or acquisition of material goods
The worst kind of excess was on display in that program. I had admired those cars until tonight.
It was the boring Rolls Royce, not the interesting one, then? I've done the interesting one 😉
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a very sad programe,when people are going hungry in the world .
Give me strength. Why does someone always have to trot that old shit out every time? Just because someone is dying in a desert somewhere doesn't mean someone else can't build or buy an expensive car you know.
When you've sold everything you own and given it all to charity and spent your time working selflessly for others, I'll listen to you. Until then, do us all a favour and shut up.
Thanks to Rolls Royce motor cars, my family and I don't go hungry.
BenCooper - I trust you had a camera permit for that shot?
A what now?
Well sadly the program did seem to be more about the money and marketing rather than the cars or the engineering involved with such a quality product.
Kind of the opposite to that other program about the RR jet engines etc
Shame
And come on... that fella who said something along the lines of "If I park next to another Wraith the other man will know my cars worth more" ... Just showed money doesn't necessarily buy class.
His wife looked impressed with the paint named after her though 🙂
No protective gear either. Tut.
Give me strength. Why does someone always have to trot that old shit out every time? Just because someone is dying in a desert somewhere doesn't mean someone else can't build or buy an expensive car you know.
When you've sold everything you own and given it all to charity and spent your time working selflessly for others, I'll listen to you. Until then, do us all a favour and shut up.
That needed repeating.
Just in case it didn't sink in the first time.
(Oh.... +1 by the way)
Well said PP, well said.
+ Lots! 😀
One of our staff stops off in Dubai on her way to Goa every Christmas.
Her friend out there was bought a brand new roller by his staff as his Christmas present.
I got a cheese selection.
BenCooper - I trust you had a camera permit for that shot?
Busted! Pook, and his RR buddies, are going to give you a damn good thrashing.
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a very sad programe,when people are going hungry in the world .Give me strength. Why does someone always have to trot that old shit out every time? Just because someone is dying in a desert somewhere doesn't mean someone else can't build or buy an expensive car you know.
No one said people shouldn't build or buy expensive cars.
When you've sold everything you own and given it all to charity and spent your time working selflessly for others, I'll listen to you. Until then, do us all a favour and shut up.
Are you really suggesting that no one is able to comment on inequality whilst they have a shirt on their back?
Really?
Are you nine?
Still, you got to have a little shout and feel all important without having to go through the bother of actually reading what was actually said.
Don't worry Pook, I've already shopped him to the confidential reporting line 😉
There's a confidential reporting line for urbexers?
Dedicated number just for urbexers 😀
Oh well, that's another multinational I've annoyed.
urbexers
I prefer banplorers.
a very sad programe,when people are going hungry in the world
Lets hope they never make a programme about £3000+ bicycles 😐
What?, like twin front disc bromptons and their ilk?, 😉
The insistence on perfection made me mull over the various compromises I make daily in my business. But I comfort myself in the knowledge I'm not charging a meeelion pounds for my services.
It was a lot of marketing BS IMO.
I bet they are not quite as anal in the real World.
As for the uber rich. 🙄
What?, like twin front disc bromptons and their ilk?,
Hey! I've got no problem if people want to spend that much money on a car. And I've only ever made one twin front disc Brompton 😉
Thanks to Rolls Royce motor cars, my family and I don't go [s]hungry.[/s] to the shops on foot, like a pauper...
FTFY
DrP
(the above is unlikely to be true)
Caught the end the difference in true wealth is staggering. I had to laugh at the £45m lottery winner in his pretty bog standard RR saying how winning £45m has allowed him into a world he'd never had experienced otherwise. Yeah he's loaded but a long long way of the super rich that were buying cars in Dubai.
Oh and what PP said whilst I agree on the distribution of wealth is messed up unless you don't buy yourself luxuries and contribute you spare cash to the these starving millions you're not better. What's to say they don't give away millions to charities.
[quote=ninfan said]a very sad programe,when people are going hungry in the world
Lets hope they never make a programme about £3000+ bicycles
😆
[i]The insistence on perfection made me mull over the various compromises I make daily in my business. [/i]
It is interesting, I think you reach a level of cost where the incremental price of 'perfection' over 'that's really pretty good' is irrelevant to the people spending money.
I agree it would sometimes be nice to have the time and resources to do the best job you can rather than just the one that suits the customers budget and time scales, though.
The insistence on perfection
I suspect the guy doing quality control on the diamond studded parts was just being a bit of an a*** for the camera. Yes it really did need to be embedded further by about "the thickness of a piece of paper"
It is interesting, I think you reach a level of cost where the incremental price of 'perfection' over 'that's really pretty good' is irrelevant to the people spending money.
I dont think it is ever irrelevant but the rules are certainly significantly different.
I didn't see the program but imho RR has gone the way of opulence for the sake of it and it's just a bit gaudy now.
I've no problems with people with money spending it on nice things but there's a difference between a chap buying a range rover for swanning around the country estate on shoots a nice Merc or BM etc or even buying a Maybach which you do a lot of business from like Peter Jones etc. It to me also feels very different from a car fanatic buying a super car like Chris Evans (some may disagree with that one more).
The cars (RR and a few others) just seem to be utterly pointless objects and saying "I'm considerably richer than yow!". They just seem to be caricatures of the cars they once were which I think is sad.
No class to the mark any more
PP +1... well said
So could all the Ayn Rand acolytes please confirm the level of self sacrifice required before being allowed to mention inequality?
An equal percentage of whatever the super rich spend on their RR?
Quite enjoyed it. Felt sorry but also chuckled at the guy from the goldsmiths
Disappointing show, had hoped it would focus on the oily engineering bits of an RR, rather than the trinketry (that they said in the show was just a gimmick) and the whole 'look at how much money someone can spend on a car' then be all coy when asked exactly how much 'the most expensive rolls ever' costs/was sold for.
That said, the Wraith isn't a hard car to look at.
A thoroughly depressing and dispiriting programme in every respect. It summed up pretty much everything about the totally *ed up world we now inhabit. I find it utterly depressing that all that skill and effort, all those resources are now ploughed into providing gaudy trinkets for the stratospherically rich, to sit alongside their other ridiculous tat.. And whats worse; for some utterly inexplicable reason we're supposed to celebrate and applaud this, and even aspire to it as the very pinnacle of human existence
Diamond encrusted cars? Pathetic!! Utterly *ing pathetic!!! 🙄
I bet the fancy bag they had made to ship the dashboard around in cost more than my car.
I'm glad there is room in the world for some perfectionists. Since my career change (from selling major IT projects to making wardrobes) I find my customers are happy to indulge my enthusiasm in pointing out how the join between the bridge unit and the wardrobe is really really neat.
Lets hope they never make a programme about £3000+ bicycles
The difference is that there is a thin red line between sustainable wealth that everyone can enjoy and wealth that starts to adversely effect everyone else on the planet.
We could, with the right application of technology probably be in a position where by all 7 billion of us could have a nice bicycle. The same can't be said for a diamond encrusted Rolls Royce.
PeterPoddy just highlighted his childish take on economics.
Oh and what PP said whilst I agree on the distribution of wealth is messed up unless you don't buy yourself luxuries and contribute you spare cash to the these starving millions you're not better. What's to say they don't give away millions to charities.
Again, this poster demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of economics to enable a bit of ad hom.
No class to the mark any more
Whatever do you mean, Alan Sugar has one 😉
What Binners said ...
I've just watched this on catch up, knowing full well it would annoy me. Intrigue got the better of me though.
The bloke who drove, or rather was driven, 1/2 a mile to his place of work was completely taking the pee. Anyone who thinks this kind of behaviour is acceptable and doesn't require modifying is living in a different world.
A thoroughly depressing and dispiriting programme in every respect. It summed up pretty much everything about the totally ****ed up world we now inhabit. I find it utterly depressing that all that skill and effort, all those resources are now ploughed into providing gaudy trinkets for the stratospherically rich, to sit alongside their other ridiculous tat.. And whats worse; for some utterly inexplicable reason we're supposed to celebrate and applaud this, and even aspire to it as the very pinnacle of human existence
Totally agree with you, I find it utterly hilarious that some idiots still manage to come up with shakey theories to justify their own delusional unobtainable aspirations.
There's a phrase from a film "Be careful Preston, you're treading on my dreams". When people feel their unconcious dreams are being trodden on, they resort to any argument in an attempt to defend them - including aggressive ad hom attacks.