I spotted this at a golf resort the other day. It's a Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, an extremely rare and extremely expensive variant of an already extremely rare and extremely expensive brand. According to the enthusiastic desk clerk (it belongs to his boss), this is one of two examples currently in Canada.
That's two too many, say I.
I'm sure it rides like a dream, bathes its occupants in opulence I can't possibly imagine, and eats up asphalt like a jet fighter at takeoff (and probably so quietly, you wouldn't even know the engine was running). But good heavens, who designed this thing?
The nose looks like one of those front ends that the basketball players put on the Chrysler 300s. The wrinkly top looks like it's off our 1966 Dodge Dart. And that windshield frame -- it looks like something off a plastic model kit, where it has to be oversized because it can't be made to scale.
Several people were all over it, praising it to the hilt, but I think it's just a case of money talking. So I'll be the first to say it: yes, it's expensive, but man, this thing is fugly!
