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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.
PeterPoddy - Memberproject - Member
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.
.....including aggressive ad hom attacks.
A few seconds earlier.....
I find it hilarious that some idiots still manage to ... Etc
Well played indeed.
I don't suffer fools anymore Neal, if you want to go ad hom then I feel fairly justified in engaging in my own bit of character assaination.
The general lack of critical thinking shown by most is starting to tear a hole in the fabric of my being.
Where did I insult anyone ?
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.
When you +1'd this, dismissing someones point of view without any sort of rational argument.
Do we really have to have another "you started it argument"? Step back and take a breath before we have to take measures. Thanks.
Do we really have to have another "you started it argument"? Step back and take a breath before we have to take measures. Thanks.
Leave it, Drac! It's not worth it!
*spills everyone's pint*
When you +1'd this, dismissing someones point of view without any sort of rational argument.
So I agreed with someone who made a point.
And for that, I get called an idiot and a fool.
By someone who criticises everyone for making personal attacks.
Well argued. You've really made your point well there.
*lays into Jamie, for spilling my cranberry juice*
I worked at Bentley for a while there cars are really nice but massively overpriced people just pay for a status symbol, don't get me wrong I would love to own such cars but would never chose that lifestyle over riding bikes with my buddies it is better to do shit than have shit!
[b]Did you call my pint a puff?!!![/b]
Diamond encrusted cars? Pathetic!! Utterly ****ing pathetic!!!
It was a one off, a show car. The show was basically an hour long advert.
Hopefully it'll get more orders rolling in, so that I get a bigger bonus next year. Who knows I might even be able to afford a new bike?
Can I just say for what its worth. These cars only wear the Rolls Royce brand. They are BMW powered and BMW designed cars. They are simply assembled over here. Bently in Crewe is where alot of the old Rolls Royce heritage was when talking about the car buisness,thats now owned by VW. Rolls Royce only manufactures Gas Turbines now along with a few other aquisitions but has nothing to do with the cars.
*claret everywhere*
Who spilled my glass of claret?
Drac.
Are you ok with the universal freedom to vote for a party who would like to reduce inequality?
Or would the same restrictions apply to democracy and representation as well as freedom of speech?
Interesting bit with the RR PR bloke trying to justify the expense of the press lunch. Oh yes, a journalist is going to slag off a RR because the hotel only has a one star chef! I'm sure the journo isn't thinking about the next jolly when he writes his/her bit for the newspaper.
I'm sure the journo isn't thinking about the next jolly when he writes his/her bit for the newspaper.
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Jamie - Member*claret everywhere*
Who spilled my glass of claret?
You really ought not to be drinking Claret with that Lamb Bhuna, a good Barolo would work better.
before we have to take measures. Thanks.
He'll be taking away all your hair shirts in a minute....
You really ought not to be drinking Claret with that Lamb Bhuna, a good Barolo would work better.
A good Rose with curry is a better bet 😉
Wine? with curry?
Alright poshos.....
Only after the Bangla has run out, you looking at my Rose BTW 👿
...anyway, back to the cars.
I had to laugh at the 'big moment' when the diamond encrusted door was opened and you could barely see the things. Utterly underwhelming!
I dont know why youd have anything other than beer with curry.
PeterPoddy - MemberGive 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.
What a few pathetic comments, it was just a sales advert disguised as a documentry,to sell german desined cars to rich people with little taste or ability to obviously understand the basics of hunger and unemploynment a lot of the world are facing, there was very little about the engineering and testing of the vehicles just stupid add ons they dont sell at Halfords.
But there is an old saying a fool and his money are easily parted from it.
But there is an old saying a fool and his money are easily parted from it.
The Lottery?
any sort of gambling jamie.
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A foal and his money are....erm...hang on, bear with me, I'll get this pun to work if it kills me.
Foal'ded like a straw under a bears paw?
Wonder if Rolls Royce under their bespoke options, would allow there car to leave the factory adorned in BMW badges. I must admit having driven a few rollers over the years they really don't float my boat, too ostentatious and just massive. I'll stick to dreaming of owning a nice 5 series estate.
And oi who knocked over my mug of cocoa 😆
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
Its the aspirations of the majority this wealthy minority play upon. Some people even on this thread dream of being like them one day, when in reality it will never happen, yet they still seem happy to go along with all what the wealthy minority have planned for us.
Just watched this on playback...
Very interesting programme, but my god it reinforced my prejudices.
Happy to have the chip(s) on my shoulder(s) pointed out to me when that sort of top end capitalism is sooo fooooked up - when the top end are creaming so, so much off of the economies of their respective countries; and leaving absolutely naff all for so many 😡
I have absolutely no problem with top people earning big money for their skills, talent etc. But nah, that's not what's happening here...
rkk01, WELL SAID,but youll have the closet conservativite capitalists from this thread on your back soon.
Strange non of them will actually have any chance of ever owning a rr, and the nearest they will ever come to riding in one will be funerals and weddings.
Just saw this - post ride...other than the rich v poor arguments above i did notice that most of the owners may have never ridden a bike or done much exercise in their lives. Cannot buy health and fitness.
But you can still buy Health & Efficiency.