First Drive: 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe – Previews
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| BY STEVE SPENCE, |
October 2007 |
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| Rolls-Royce, in BMW’s hands nine years now, continues its glamorous and flamboyant traditions—big and bazoomy, yet somehow stately, even while knocking over a cocktail table or two during a flashy entrance. But once upon a time, getting into a $412,000 Rolls convertible was cause for grown men to begin pawing at it like beered-up college boys, but now the wow quotient is down: There seem to be fewer chromed “organ knobs,†colored leather appears not so exotic in the age of bling, and the little forest of lacquered woods and the elegant emblems aren’t quite so glorious ahttp://www.caranddriver.com/previews/13917/first-drive-2008-rolls-royce-phantom-drophead-coupe.html?al=113nymore. |
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