Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good way
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Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good way
They have actually designed a concept car that is clearly intended to be a Rolls-Royce and is uglier than homemade sin on the other side of a mud fence.
This thing looks like the bastard child of FAB 1 and a Plymouth Prowler.
This thing looks like the bastard child of FAB 1 and a Plymouth Prowler.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Ick...
Unless this thing flies and needs directional airfoils, I don't get it...
Unless this thing flies and needs directional airfoils, I don't get it...
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
That sound you hear is Al wretching in the distance.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Ironically, they claim that they took some of their inspiration from pre-war models, where the wheels and fenders were separate from the body...
Apart from being ugly as sin, this thing also relies entirely on self-driving technology. Today's self-driving prototype cars still have steering wheels and pedals, in case something goes wrong and the computer decides to tell you: "here, you drive for now!" Not so for that "car" (and I use the word lightly...) as it has no hint of a steering wheel or pedals. Indeed, the seating is not set up for a driving position at all. It's just essentially a very comfortable couch for you to sit on.
I would not trust that if my life depended on it...
Apart from being ugly as sin, this thing also relies entirely on self-driving technology. Today's self-driving prototype cars still have steering wheels and pedals, in case something goes wrong and the computer decides to tell you: "here, you drive for now!" Not so for that "car" (and I use the word lightly...) as it has no hint of a steering wheel or pedals. Indeed, the seating is not set up for a driving position at all. It's just essentially a very comfortable couch for you to sit on.
I would not trust that if my life depended on it...
Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Good point. You can never be certain whether "Eleanor" would belake_wrangler wrote:Not so for that "car" (and I use the word lightly...) as it has no hint of a steering wheel or pedals. Indeed, the seating is not set up for a driving position at all. It's just essentially a very comfortable couch for you to sit on.
I would not trust that if my life depended on it...
capable of handling the situations which might arise.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
One can never be too careful...Dave wrote:Good point. You can never be certain whether "Eleanor" would belake_wrangler wrote:Not so for that "car" (and I use the word lightly...) as it has no hint of a steering wheel or pedals. Indeed, the seating is not set up for a driving position at all. It's just essentially a very comfortable couch for you to sit on.
I would not trust that if my life depended on it...
capable of handling the situations which might arise.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Always have a manual override.
If a car doesn't have a way for me to tell it to shut up and let me drive, it's not a car. It's a deathtrap.
If a car doesn't have a way for me to tell it to shut up and let me drive, it's not a car. It's a deathtrap.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
You may not know if "Eleanor" is actually "Christine."
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Or whether "Eleanor" thinks she IS eleanor.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
She knows just who she is. She's Eleanor Rollsevelt.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Or whether "Eleanor" thinks she IS eleanor.
(And before you hiss at me, AFF, please take into consideration the fact that some wag at Rolls-Royce must have intended that pun!)
Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
This isn't all that radical, it's evolutionary...
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
They might not... "Eleanor" is named after Eleanor Velasco Thornton (1880-1915), an English actress and artist's model who was the model for the "flying lady" (aka "Spirit of Ecstasy") that has graced the bonnets of RRs since 1910.Dave wrote:She knows just who she is. She's Eleanor Rollsevelt.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Or whether "Eleanor" thinks she IS eleanor.
(And before you hiss at me, AFF, please take into consideration the fact that some wag at Rolls-Royce must have intended that pun!)
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Yeah, and how well did that car turn out?
It stayed airborne for what... A few seconds?
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Or Red Queen. Or GLaDOS...AnotherFairportfan wrote:Or whether "Eleanor" thinks she IS eleanor.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
To be fair, it is a concept car. I believe that the idea of those is to show what can be done, not necessarily what will or even should be done.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
At first glance, my thought was fancy air car from Blade Runner movie.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
Spinners!Hansontoons wrote:At first glance, my thought was fancy air car from Blade Runner movie.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
I had read in an article manymany years ago (a history of the company in, i think, R&T) that she was the mistress of a wealthy fellow who bought a Rolls-Royce for her and had the bespoke coach-builder (Mulliner Park Warde, i think) put that replica of a sculpture of her he owned on the car, and R-R liked it and made it official.AmriloJim wrote:They might not... "Eleanor" is named after Eleanor Velasco Thornton (1880-1915), an English actress and artist's model who was the model for the "flying lady" (aka "Spirit of Ecstasy") that has graced the bonnets of RRs since 1910.Dave wrote:She knows just who she is. She's Eleanor Rollsevelt.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Or whether "Eleanor" thinks she IS eleanor.
(And before you hiss at me, AFF, please take into consideration the fact that some wag at Rolls-Royce must have intended that pun!)
If not true, i don't care.
Sort of like how the name "Mercedes" got applied to Daimler-Benz automobiles.
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Yep. From Wikipedia {note the caveat}:
t 22 she was the secretary of John Edward Scott-Montagu, who became the second Baron Montagu of Beaulieu in 1905. She became his mistress and they had an illegitimate daughter, Joan Eleanor Thornton that she gave up for adoption. Thornton posed for sculptor Charles Sykes and may have been the model for his Spirit of Ecstasy, which is used as the bonnet/hood ornament on cars manufactured by Rolls-Royce, as well as a precursor sculpture, The Whisperer.
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Re: Rolls-Royce achieves the impossible - and not in a good
"The Whisperer", the sculpture referred to above:
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