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A car that’s painstakingly detailed and beautifully constructed, but also hilarious fun to pedal around a circuit. What you’re seeing before you, in an ingenious twist, is an effort to fuse Rolls-Royce sensibilities with entertaining track prowess. Sure, it’s nice to waft, but it’s arguably preferable to feel engaged and involved. But we don’t all want to own Rolls-Royces either – they’re too big to park in supermarket car parks, the running costs are eye-watering, and – while they’re massively powerful and have an incredibly smooth and pillowy soft ride – they’re not a huge amount of fun to throw down a twisty country lane or hoon around a racetrack in. With the least expensive model, the Ghost, starting at around £230k, that sort of lifestyle is well out of the reach of most people. Of course, we can’t all afford to drive a Rolls-Royce. Imagine that level of fastidiousness, applied to everything in the car. So if that bolt shakes itself loose in thirty years’ time, they can find out why. It’s all noted in the computer via Bluetooth. This signifies that it’s being recorded – that specific bolt was wrenched to that particular torque on that date, at that time, by that person. As the vast engines and gearboxes are mated with axles on the rolling rig prior to being stuffed into a shell, the mechanics torque up all the bolts… and when they reach the sufficient amount of twist, the wrench glows orange. To illustrate this fact with a specific example, consider the factory’s torque wrenches: there’s a section of the plant called the ‘marriage centre’, where the drivetrain meets the bodyshell.
Every Roller in the world is built there, with 35% going to China, 35% to the US, quite a lot to the Gulf states… and every single one is the very best that it can be.
Just twenty Rolls-Royces are built each day at Goodwood, a carefully considered figure to balance exclusivity with volume demand. You can see why BMW wanted a piece of that action, buying out the company in 2003 and building a fresh new factory at Goodwood to continue the legacy in style. That’s a point which is barely even worth making, we all know this – a company whose sole aim throughout its history has been to make the best cars in the world has created a brand image that speaks for itself. There’s an undeniable quality to the ethos of Rolls-Royce. And the more we pore over this majestic Rocket Bunny BMW E36 build, the more it becomes apparent that the Roller philosophy really is more than skin-deep…įeature from Fast Car. There’s something particularly regal about choosing a Rolls-Royce paint shade for your drift project.