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Happy (James) May Day everybody!
Join us for a tenuous Bank Holiday pun-based excuse to trawl through Captain Slow’s finest moments…
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Meet the Rolls-Royce bespoke dept
The men behind this week's Six Senses concept reveal their greatest work to date...
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What happens if you don’t like a customer’s idea?
"If a car's deemed to be "borderline", designers come in to help steer customers away from something that conflicts with the brand. But we still do radical, though we think carefully about the car's location - some bespoke work might not look appropriate in Surrey but in the Middle East, for example, it could really work."
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Unless your name ends in Sugar, Cowell, or Dogg, you probably don't spend a lot of time buying Rolls-Royces. So you probably have no idea about its bespoke department - a division established in 2003 for one-off requests that occasionally builds its own concepts. Like the Ghost Six Senses revealed this week.
In its nine-year history the bespoke dept's modified more than 300 cars to its customers spec, which has spawned several features you'll see dangling from the current lineup. Long wheelbase models and a boot-mounted fridge both started as custom-made jobs before finding themselves on the pricelist as an option.
Demand in personal pimpification's shot up, too - last summer the chaps at Goodwood announced they'd be doubling the bespoke dept's workforce, bringing numbers up to over 50 specialists. So we thought it was about time to pop down to the West Sussex-based factory and gently probe the department's boss, Lars Klawitter.
Click forth for XXXL sumo wrestler Rollers, declined gun racks, horsehair inlays and the most expensive order the department's ever had... -
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Merc axes Maybach
Rappers! Footballists! Theo Paphitis! REMAIN CALM. Here are our suggestions for ‘Bach alternatives.
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Is this the world’s fastest Rolls Royce?
It’s from 1978, it has 2300bhp and it’ll hit 200mph in 6.9 seconds. James will be appalled...
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One-off Rolls Drophead to debut at London fair
Bespoke convertible goes on show at uber-posh Chelsea show. Cufflink holder included…
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Rolls builds electric Phantom
One-off concept car set for Geneva show to test potential future emission-free Phantom
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100 Rollers drive through London
‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ bonnet mascot celebrates its centenary with an epic drive through the capital
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