Not really my favourite anyway, but this thing looks awful!



Discuss...:eek:news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2625469.stm

A great looking car with lots of traditional design links. I will place my order first thing tomorrow.

Make that really awful and you're getting close!

CS

Looks like a Roller to me!

That's to say - a great big ugly gas-guzzler.

Nice to see some traditions still upheld.

Ugly! The Germans and RR have made some fabulous cars, but this is hideous. :( Trouble is, so much is allegedly designed to suit American "taste" -- the Jaguar S-type was another example, I've read -- seems about right !

Anyone know who the stylists were ? E.g. ex Rolls Royce, German, whoever ?

Pininfarina ? I think not ! :D

Anyone know who the stylists were ?

Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble? ;)

From the side it looks like a superannuated Cadillac DeVille [or should that be DeVile?].

Quite gastly.

Yuk is the word.

What a hideous car! Looks like something from a 70's cartoon.

The Maybach

http://weaky.free.fr/galeries/de/Maybach.htm

It's a Rolls-Royce tank!

Like the rear-opening door but the rest of it looks armour-plated. Whatever happened to elegance? :rolleyes:

For elegance go to Fiat, I still prefer Cadillacs, Rolls and Yank aircraft.

Nothing added about Yank politics.

Revolting. It will only appeal to those with the worst possible taste and the greatest possible wealth.

Oughta be a hit in Saudi then.

RT, the Maybach looks like the natural evolution of the K-car.;)

I don't know, if you ask me, it's kind of nice to see that Lego has finally decided to tackle the market in a larger scale...

Only problem I see is lining up all those d@<hidden> little holes on the convertible version... ;)

bmw got their fingers burnt with rover and will now get their balls roasted on rolls.Perhaps they should take over running the english cricket team then we can expect our hopes to be dashed even before the start of play.Unfair perhaps and i do not play cricket but bmw have been stumped or is it stuffed?

hhhmmm! The front end is not too bad...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/business_rolling_out_a_rolls/img/5.jpg

but, the rear end is kind of dumpy!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/business_rolling_out_a_rolls/img/1.jpg

Prefer a Porsche 911 myself..:)

You're all mad. One might not agree with the styling but this remains the most magnificent, innovative, exquisitely-built machines we have seen in years. Best of all it doesn’t look like a stretched Ford Granada, as does the Maybach. It has cues from the pre-war cars such as the James Young Phantom II and fifties Silver Wraith and, in keeping with Royce traditional values of fine engineering and innovations, boasts features including:

* Self-closing, powered ‘coach doors’, which can pass within 2.7mm of the front ones as they close, such is the build precision
* Run-flat tyres, good for 100 miles at 50 mph with a fully-loaded car
* Air suspension with self-levelling dampers – and sensors on the front wheels even warn the rear wheels of incoming bumps
* Double-layer floor, which incorporates ducting and wiring, leaving a flat floor in the rear
* Two batteries on two circuits, one reserved for starting only
* Composite front wings, within which are antennas for radio/tv/Sat-Nav
* Electronic parking brake, applied automatically when the transmission is set to Park
* Engine produces 75% of its torque at just 1000rpm – and gives 0-62 in 5.7 secs
* Six-speed electronic gearbox
* Electrically-heated side glass
* ‘Whisper valve’ in the exhaust that gives silent running at idle
* Nine amplifiers, 16 speakers and a 420w output sound system

..and even the RR logos on the wheel centres settle upright when the car stops

Any ‘vulgar’ items such as Sat-Nav and control screen for heating etc are even hidden behind polished wooden panels, to be revealed only when required.

So, go and buy your Maybach with its 76 switches (31 in the Royce) and look like a dodgy European banker or pop star. And let’s celebrate what our designers can still do (yes, it was designed here by British engineers (even though the exterior was penned by an eastern-European guy who also did the new Range Rover apparently), not forgetting the guys within BMW who, against great internal interference and resistance, absolutely insisted that the car should be ‘right’ and not some sort of BMW 9 series.

Oops, seem to have ranted on a bit there… :D

Flat Spin

I object in being lumped in with the herd. Please refer to the second post of this thread.

Quite right bluskis. But I thought you were being ironic...;)

My comments were aimed exclusively at the appearance.

It looks downright ugly, IMHO ! There's no excuse for that.

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Cruella De Ville?