As we speak’s Good Value or No Cube Rolls is named a “collector’s merchandise” by its vendor, however suffers from a salvage title which could mitigate that collectability. Let’s see how this luxurious barge festivals in our critique.
Talking of ‘critique,’ that’s a phrase that the English language borrowed from French. So, too, is ‘Encore,’ which additionally occurs to be the title of the automobile we checked out final Friday: a 1986 Renault Encore Spring Version. Not like French phrases popping up in English, Renault Encores aren’t all that widespread lately, and our automobile was much more unusual because it gave the impression to be in nice form. A CDN$4550 price ticket (round $3,258 American) sealed the deal on the little French kiss of a automobile, incomes it a strong 60 p.c Good Value win.
There’s a fantastic previous British sitcom from the Nineteen Nineties known as Protecting Up Appearances, the gist of which is the primary character Hyacinth Bucket’s (pronounced ‘bouquet,’ for those who please) ambitions of climbing the social ladder. Hyacinth’s efforts are continuously thwarted by her working-class—and idle-class—relations and her long-suffering husband, Richard, who’s completely happy together with his middle-class life.
A part of that life is the automobile the Bucket’s personal, a Rover 216. That was a mid-sized saloon primarily based on the Honda Civic, not the fanciest of rides, to make sure. Hyacinth would have a lot fairly been comported in one thing rather more befitting of her aspired-to stature, ideally one thing as ostentatious as a Rolls-Royce.
And who wouldn’t need to software round in a giant, stunning Rolls? That’s, in spite of everything, the head of luxurious and attainment, proper? In fact, few of us schlubs may ever afford a Rolls as that luxurious is proscribed to an unique membership of Richie-Riches. Or so it appears.
This 2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe is a automobile that appears prefer it ought to value six figures—automated coach (suicide) doorways, starlight headliner, leather-based and wooden inside, and so forth.—however is tantalizingly priced within the higher five-figure vary.
The rationale for that may be a tainted title, which the vendor claims is the results of rear-end injury that wrote the automobile off however has since been totally repaired. Primarily based on the photographs, there’s nothing to let on about that deleterious booty name, nor that the automobile now has a salvage title on account of it. Actually, nobody must know that the automobile is as low-cost as it’s if all of us promise to maintain it on the down-low.
The automobile itself is fairly excessive. Regardless of in depth use of aluminum within the unibody chassis and suspension, these are nonetheless massively heavy automobiles, tipping the scales at greater than two and a half tons. That weight isn’t all that obvious from behind the wheel, although, due to the 452 horsepower 6.75 V12 that’s to be discovered beneath the flowery brushed steel bonnet. That’s backed up by a six-speed automated, which powers the rear wheels.
Talking of wheels, these are big 24-inch aftermarket alloys on this automobile. Spectacular as these are, they’re completely loopy huge. Fortunately, the vendor says that the extra moderately sized manufacturing unit wheels will include the automobile. Different info gleaned from the advert features a strong upkeep historical past and the promise that each one service necessities are present.
Fairly amazingly for a automobile of this stature, there’s a considerable 150,344 miles on the clock. That’s rather a lot and should point out that this Rolls was used as a luxurious rental. No matter such a postulated historical past, it seems to be clear and with out substantial put on, each inside and outside. Additionally, there’s an umbrella hiding within the door jamb, so there’s that.
If all that wasn’t sufficient to encourage your inside social climber, then the $86,000 asking worth simply may be. That’s means beneath what a clear title automobile would command, and so long as the insurance coverage firm doesn’t get its company panties in a twist, who cares about this automobile having a salvage title?
What do you assume? Is a salvage Phantom the right method to see how the opposite half lives at round half the fee? Or is $86,000 nonetheless an excessive amount of for even economically-minded followers of fanciness?
You determine!
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