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GREAT AFFECTATIONS; Does a more over-the-top luxury car exist than the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe? If so, we wouldn't know where to look.
Byline: DUTCH MANDEL
Really, now. This Rolls-Royce is an ostentatious car. Even the name-Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe (say it like "souffle,'' with accent wandering off, like Brit Prime Minister Tony Blair)-is pretentious. Puhleese. Call it a Roller Convertible, and be done with it, already. It sounds like an entry at the Westminster dog show.
The affectations start early and are deliberate. Only 200 a year will be built, 40 percent of which will come here, and the first year's allotment is sold out. Why, of course it is! Its price is a cool half-mil when the teak decking, stainless-steel hood and chromed, oversized wheels are bespoken and ...
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