Tuesday 26 May 2020

Another Rolls-Royce I Can't Afford.

"Asking Boris Johnson to sack Dominic Cummings is like asking Emu to sack Rod Hull."
 
That is one of my favourite quotes to come out of the recent debacle.
 
Here is emu trying to get in to a toy car:
OK, I put the eye on there - here is the real picture:
Still looks weird doesn't it? Until you realise that is a model car.  Car+Driver have this story.  It's a very realistic model car because it is made by Rolls-Royce using Rolls-Royce materials.  It is a 1:18 scale Cullinan.
 
If the price was 1:18 scale, it would cost £15000.
 
Double it to get the actual price.
 
To quote C+D,
 
"That's around the price of the average new car in the U.S., but if you're worried about being average, Rolls-Royce is probably not your thing anyway."

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    1. You are right -it clearly says 1:8 scale. This means that either Car+Driver have edited their story or my eyesight needs testing. It doesn't look like they have changed anything so it's a drive to Barnard Castle for me.

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