http://www.automoblog.net/2008/02/19/rolls-coupe/ A Car Blog for Auto Enthusiasts Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:02:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.automoblog.net/2008/02/19/rolls-coupe/comment-page-1/#comment-40105 Demonblade Wed, 21 May 2008 20:57:07 +0000 http://www.automoblog.net/2008/02/19/rolls-coupe/#comment-40105 This has that faint but noticeable tinge of BAD IDEA all over it. Rolls-Royce is the premium manufacturer of premium luxury cars, and taking the fabulous Phantom and chopping it into a coupe seems like blasphemy. Rolls-Royce has the best luxury car in the world, and it is a very prestigious, very expensive, very gentlemanly car...and changing it into a two door coupe is just the wrong thing to do. The prestige and class of a Rolls-Royce Phantom evaporates in an instant when you try to transfer it onto a "sporty" (cough, cough), beatdown version. This has that faint but noticeable tinge of BAD IDEA all over it. Rolls-Royce is the premium manufacturer of premium luxury cars, and taking the fabulous Phantom and chopping it into a coupe seems like blasphemy. Rolls-Royce has the best luxury car in the world, and it is a very prestigious, very expensive, very gentlemanly car…and changing it into a two door coupe is just the wrong thing to do. The prestige and class of a Rolls-Royce Phantom evaporates in an instant when you try to transfer it onto a "sporty" (cough, cough), beatdown version.

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