Why Are Rolls Royces Getting So EXPENSIVE!?

so now, looking at it from the back, this is where some of the questions start to arise in 2021. British luxury coach maker Rollsroyce shocked the automotive industry when it revealed the boat that, at $28 million, was the most

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car of all time. put into production now was until last week, somehow Rolls-Royce launched another jaw-dropping size and opulence with the new Amethyst dropping up to a price tag of over $30 million is the combination of unparalleled aesthetics and of course that Sufficient attention to detail. To justify its exorbitant price, is it the Tail's abundance of complexity and technology that elevates it to the zenith of luxury or is it just the richness in price?

Let's take a closer look now at the first three things that catch my eye on first impression. are that grille, there's something about it that I can't really put my finger on, but there's just something about it that doesn't tell me Perfection, next up are the headlights, they're too simple, they're modern, but they have enough character and Then on the roof, it's happening something very strange here, where the roof and the glass just don't seem to match, it doesn't seem to match, but overall, at first impression, it's a Rolls-Royce, nothing has that kind of presence. the road is almost an architectural presence, it definitely has a sense of gravity that only a Rolls-Royce could have now, let's take a look at the front, side and rear in a little more detail, now we'll delve a little deeper into that .

Front view as we know it Rolls-Royce has always had a very majestic grille, very proud, very vertical, very architectural, almost Parthenon style, it has the typical elements of that very daring, very striking upper side of the grille and then the blades that They hold her. which are very vertical in this sense here, but maybe it's just because I'm a fan of details to a fault, but what I can't get over in a car of this magnitude and this price is why the space is not absolutely defined in the grill, you might be asking me where, just check the center space here, you will see that the middle space, if you have OCD, it will take you endlessly, every two ribs are apparently equally spaced, but when you get to the middle it looks pinched and again to me that just doesn't feel right.

One additional thing that makes this Rolls-Royce Grill really stand out to them is the slight shine that doesn't look like much, but achieves a pretty nice effect. it's the fact that the ribs go up and then they have that slight bevel, that slight angle at the top that comes back to give a slight overbite to the larger part of the frame with the grill, so in effect it's something that It looks a little bit different from Rolls-Royce but it has a lot of weight and it has a lot of visual power in its visual effect and I think it's a very, very well done piece of design, other than that, yes, it's definitely a modern and improved version. a little more elegant version a little more agile but still very Rolls-Royce now the next element I want to talk about are the headlights, the headlights are like the eyes of the Sun as we call it, but in a car like this they express uniqueness they express the character general of the car but in my opinion they are a little cross-eyed for a car of this size it reveals a lot of character and I wonder what kind of technology? they're using because, as you can see here, the running light or the daytime running light as we call it, is just a very small horizontally linear linear light and maybe that's the least you can get to express any kind of character.

In one of the headlight features there is now a feature line and space on this car that I really appreciate. I think it's quite

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to produce this way, but it's a Rolls-Royce and that's elevating the fender line to this feature. line that goes through the hood, the hood area here and that's where they put the cut line for the hood hood. That means a huge fender and quite expensive to produce in terms of tooling and precision in terms of quality and fit. they finish but they do and it just simplifies and cleans up the whole area, it doesn't break it up into too many visual parts, it looks a little more volumetric or a little more massive and more Behemoth in a way, so the fender outline would actually come down from the line front door closing line back and then I would probably estimate that it would go over here and then become the top edge of the bumper closing line so you can see the side view. a lot more, but like I said before, normally you would bring the fender up to a point like that or maybe even if you were doing what we call a cover, the hood would extend all the way that way and maybe it would end here on the side.

Somewhere except that huge Fender passing by there is a fairly large piece of tooling and it's also a Rolls-Royce from the front view. I would have to say it's because it again looks very architectural in a way, but it's still designed with a lot of sensitivity towards the surface, few details of course, but the car has some quirks and this one no less, maybe that's what makes it such an artistic work of art. Automotive sculpture sculpture sculpture scure scure SC SC SC now from a side view, this is definitely something new for Rolls-Royce. I recognize it as a Rolls-Royce, but it's a bit of an evolutionary approach to its design language.

Let me explain you. First of all, we have this kind of design on the front that gives you that kind of no. Bumpers, uh, short overhang feel, no bumper type feel at the front of the car and again, very few cut lines. You can see that the only cut line that you'll see on the fender in this view is actually right here where the bumper split is over there and then you go all the way back, a big, expansive front fender to this line right here here and then Of course you have the typical Rolls-Royce door handles, almost like a refrigerator or a vault, you have a very large door that is the suicidal type that opens into traffic, as we say, and that could be something that makes the car unique to Rolls-Royce; not many companies are allowed to do that.

Royce, we move back and you start to slightly see the reason why they call it drop tail before we get to that drop tail. I want to highlight a feature that I really like, it's almost a newer interpretation of the surface. the side of a car not many cars do it this way, they usually do it the opposite way, but on the Rolls-Royce here they brought something in a new type of light catcher or a new type of surface for the light catcher . area that is basically open, lit towards the front and narrows towards the back as you return.

I can't explain exactly why they're stopping him here, what's going on in this area here until we actually see it in real life, but there's some kind of new. expression of the new design language that is occurring on the surface of this area here, even for Rolls-Royce, what I also find interesting here is that from now on I recognize a Rolls-Royce by the closed rear line of the door towards back, I would never be. I can tell you this was Rolls-Royce if it didn't have some sort of RR badge on it. Why you might ask what other car have you seen that has a very similar architecture to this one?

Probably no good reason. There are some things. In this design here I would almost use the word complicated because if you look at it, which we'll do in a second from the back 3/4, there are things going on there that kind of J don't seem to go with the cleanliness. This absolute Elegance that we have going through this expanse here in the back, especially at the top, you will start to see things that almost become a little too busy, a little over the top, at least in my opinion, because I think this is the Elegance. of the car, this is something that they've tried to emphasize why the car is going to be so expensive or why it's priced so high and obviously the detail behind that is I would say the justification for this is the current price of this vehicle.

There's something about the door handle that I'm not a big fan of and of course when we look at something so big that it catches the eye and becomes a conversation piece design piece, it better have a reason and I can almost guarantee you that this is probably the easiest opening and closing door in the automotive kingdom. Why put something that is so clumsy and so heavy? I would prefer to have a door that basically welcomes you by opening itself or with a remote control. control or function on the knob that can have anything except something that relates to industrial design and product design, the handle is in no way elegant on this car and I think it deserves to have or at least exude large amounts of elegance , the door handle and Whatever feature is here in front of the door handle, I don't think that weight or that thickness suits the overall intent of this car.

The wheels seem to work with this car, obviously they have to be very large wheels. It's probably a minimum, I would say, 22 inches on this car, probably even maybe 23 inches, but it's very simple, it's a very geometric design that goes well with the overall feel of the front and the side of the car, nothing Too sophisticated, nothing, shall we say, new. terrain, but works well with triangular type of themes. I think we can see through certain areas of the car, you can see that it works, it seems like they tried to keep the body style theme in mind when working on the wheel design now as we move towards the rear of the car, you can start to see some strange things happening for Rolls-Royce.

You can see this coming like this. You can see the window here, open glazed area, something else that almost looks like it. another window coming in this area here a rear deck line falling a line coming across the shoulder that just hints at it falling over there and then something quite angular here at the rear and then another bit of a bumper coming towards down here we'll have to look at that from a rear 3/4 to start to appreciate it a little bit more, but the taillights definitely look very cool, very different from the Rolls-Royce touch of elegance with their little RR logo on this side.

I'm curious because the other side should be the side unless they have airbrushed it where they fill the car with fuel and I would like to see that detail as well because a lot of times not much attention is paid to simple elements like the fuel caps, let's see which are also on the other side and what we're looking at here is the back 3/4 on the right side of the vehicle where you would normally have the fuel cap and as you can see it's actually been airbrushed. This is what it looks like and no wonder they touched it up and the reason it's bad is because it doesn't even look like it was meant to be in that spot and they had to compromise it by removing part of that round fuel cap just so it fit in that area the total commitment should not be done that way I would say now something else besides the door handle that requires a lot of visual appeal, a lot of your energy looking at it is the front door closed line coming in like this, you can see that it has a very distinctive rearward tilt, now not many cars have that and that's the sure reason why this one can have it, it's because of that suicide door opening system that allows you to turn it from here and this line here means that it actually it can swing out and not dig into the side of the car if you were opening it in this matter, so that very distinctive door closing line right there lets you know that we're looking at a Rolls-Royce with a door opening system very special, so looking at it now from the back.

Three-quarter view. This is where some of the questions start to arise. There is no doubt that this car once again has presence from the rear. Distinctive look from the rear again Is it a Rolls-Royce? I've never seen a rear end on a Rolls-Royce like this, but it's a drop tail, it's supposed to look different and it certainly does. I would say the designer probably didn't design. This way it just happened through engineering for me, a small compromise because in a car like this we want zero compromise, it has to be absolutely perfect and one issue I will point out I don't know if you'll agree with it.

Me, but I certainly have OCD, so I have to admit it. Look at this area over here, the way the roof section drops down and then has an almost different curvature than the glass. You can see this amount of compensation happening over there, that's not it. Call it normal or optimal and I am sure that in the design phase the designer would have anticipated that these two surfaces the classroom ceiling would follow the same amount of what we call barrel curvature. That the barrel curvature is in two directions is not useful. that, then it seems that the roof is not made to fit exactly and properly and at the same level as the glass area should not be better.

I would say then you have a glass line tothrough here which again is unique and with a lot of character for this car. It doesn't work, while it's a little bit of that kind of triangular effect that they're generating through different elements, okay, no harm intended, no harm, the corner of the glass we can see how it actually sits on the board, how the corner of the roof really sticks out. or extends outwards from that area, a bit like a ledge sticking out, I'm actually not sure that looks right, but it is what it is, so if we look at the taillights for example, they're not, let's call them very powerful.

In communicating the design feature, they are there, but they are a little inconsequential, a little almost shy, which you would expect in a car like this, even though Rolls-Royces tend to be generally smaller than you would expect, the taillights on this one are almost as small. I would say that from a rear view at night you won't really be able to tell that this is a Rolls-Royce when you look at it from behind it could be that at night it gives it a jewel character, something very special that we are not seeing here I hope so be it.

Once again, a very expensive rear fender on the car. You can see that the split line goes through here. Over here this whole piece here is probably a Fender coming over here now, which is a pretty big Fender to produce and you would expect it to be put together with exquisite quality control, so kudos to Rolls-Royce for being able to produce something, of course. It's probably handmade, but it's still very impressive to see that type of metal produced in such a way that it looks almost as if it were dyed from a single piece of metal, if that's what they're using here, the wood obviously is very interesting, very, very.

Expensive, I'm sure, uh, it probably looks split in half with this kind of grain coming through here. I read that I'm not absolutely sure if any type of aerodynamic testing has been done on it to ensure it works with the vehicle what type of test we normally use to make sure all the parts of the car are working optimally and correctly for the aerodynamics. I like that the surface of this vehicle here has that kind of shift or bevel in that area that goes down very elegantly. creates the wheel arch ellipse again, a very smooth surface across here, a sharp angle change that gives it quite a bit of character, very much like what they're doing on the front of the car, so it sharpens it up or at least in harmony.

With front-end design, a lot of times we have cars that just don't relate to the front and rear and this car with that amount of design on that surface separates itself from what's going on in the front, but below that line , slightly below. At the beltline we have something that looks quite congruent and quite identifiable with the design of the front of the car, so generally from the rear view, where most of the evolution occurs and most of the Revolution, I definitely wouldn't say it looks like a Rolls-Royce it will be in a much more modern way, perhaps or much more different, but in a car like this you would probably prefer to be unique rather than aligned with the current design language that Rolls -Royce has been using for many years, so it stands on its own.

Although some of those details can be questioned, they can be criticized, they can be criticized in a way that maybe there are other ways of doing it that could be better, maybe they're not better, but it's all uh. subjective, I think that in that sense I am only briefly touching on the interior of the Rolls-Royce, there is not much to say, not because it is not interesting but simply because Rolls-Royce hardly makes mistakes in the interior. I mean, of course, very happy to see that we don't have a huge screen here, but it's very nice to see that Rolls-Royce has kept it in the realm of elegance and not high-tech digital, not that we're against the digital.

Of course, but in a car like this I think it's all about elegance and this is absolutely Whispers Elegance. There's one thing that really bothers me about the interior of the car again, it's just a matter of detail and again, it's probably just my OCD, but yes. We're going to have that kind of diagonal element in the wood grain, especially going down on the middle of the car, where they take great care to match the grain in a V-shaped pattern. Why wouldn't you carry that V-shaped wood grain pattern through the center? and you can see here that they haven't done it through the center section that comes out of this part that's near the armrest, as well as through this area here and down there, there's no V-type grain alignment which again would confuse me a bit. a little bit and maybe it's something that, because it's quite dominant, quite visible in the rear deck, you'd want that as a theme to extend through the rest of the car, now there's another thing that I'm very happy that Rolls-Royce didn't has done it.

What has gone in the direction of current trends is the way they present their gauges, their instruments, the way they really make them look like high-precision analog measurement pieces, and that's something I think they should never lose. Rolls-Royce is all about being built by hand. Hand made analog, attention to detail, definitely the look of their analog gauges is supreme, probably the best in the business and I think any owner of a car like this would very much appreciate this type of look as they have done it on their vehicles, unfortunately the Rolls. -Royce droptail fails to fully justify its astronomical price from a critical design perspective, while it certainly carries the cachet of the Rolls-Royce brand, its conservative design, impracticality and relative lack of technological innovation make it less attractive by comparison with some of its competitors.

For buyers looking for a balance between opulence and innovation, I believe there are more valuable options available in the ultra-luxury automotive market; However, if you were the buyer of this car, you couldn't care less what others think about it because for you this is your ruling art. sculpture made by Picasso made by rembrand made by uh what's that guy dripping paint everywhere Jackson poock thank you and you don't need to ask people what they think about it you're in love with this product it's yours you're the only one who owns it and for that reason and that reason alone this car could be worth even 5 billion and no one should question it because it's what you want and what you can and are willing to pay, as always let me know in the comment below what you think is

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Getting out of hand now, where's that limit?

Or is it fun to see these kinds of artworks coming out every two years or so, and on the other hand, they cost you a normal leg? We are looking for a car that pushes the boundaries of technology and innovation. I'm afraid you won't find it here. Thank you very much for watching and we'll see you in the next episode.