Today.
Spotted at Collins Barracks, Cork.
A yellow 1919 Rolls Royce, known as The Moon Car, used by the 1st Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army as an improvised armoured car between 1920 and 1924.
News Punt writez:
“It had just been donated by somebody. Don’t know who donated it. It’s taxed and comes with a machine gun.”
Anyone?
Behold: Cullinan – the Rolls Royce of SUVs. And not figuratively.
The luxury marque’s first foray into the world of sports utility vehicles, named after the largest rough diamond ever found, is a twin turbo V12 with rear suicide doors, a separate cargo compartment and an automatic lowering mechanism that drops the chassis 4cm when the driver approaches.
Delivery from 2019 with prices starting at €272,750.
Behold the Rolls-Royce Wraith Luminary Collection – a bespoke edition of an already bespoke luxury car, limited to 55 examples.
Sunburst Grey paint changes from grey to copper when hit by the sun. Tudor Oak cabin veneer is perforated by a ‘constellation’ of 176 LEDs.1,340 fibre-optic lights in the headliner recreate the night sky with eight shooting stars that cross overhead as you drive. Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös describes it thus:
…progressive and trailblazing; the pinnacle in hand-crafted luxury. This is a motor car that celebrates visionaries who achieve eminence in their respective fields. Indeed, this collection is for the world’s luminaries.
Price not yet released but if you have to ask then you’re a dreadful little oik.
The Rolls Royce Dawn Black Badge – an 593 hp 6.6L twin-turbo V12 ultra premium, ultra dark version of the regular bourge-mobile.
With a black canvas top, black chrome headlights, black leather interior, black grille and black Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament, Rolls Royce claim the paint job is the ‘deepest black’ ever to grace any automobile.
A half-scale, 152,455 brick model of the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 jet engine (which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner) commissioned by Rolls Royce and built by Bright Bricks for last weekend’s Farnborough Air Show.
Build time: eight weeks, guided by four Rolls Royce engineers.
@broadsheet_ie spotted in ballymount twitter.com/TheRoasht/stat… — Ronan McCormack (@TheRoasht) April 10, 2012
Ballymount Industrial Estate, Dublin, this afternoon.
