Rolls-Royce & Bentley Driver

NIGEL BOOTHMAN

I’m far too new to Rolls-Royce ownership to do anything as heretical as criticise the company’s philosophy of engineering, so instead I’ll offer an outsider’s view: over the last fifty years or so, the way Rolls-Royce cars were built can sometimes appear unnecessarily complex.

If this sounds like the bitter reflection of a

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