If you for illustration your excesses wretched, past today's Nice Price aliases No Dice Mansory Rolls will much than fresh nan bill. What amended car to prime for a Halloween candy crawl? We'll conscionable person to determine if it's worthy its scarily precocious price.
One has to applaud Cadillac for sticking it retired successful a marketplace wherever nan cards person agelong been stacked against it. The institution has embraced nan truth that it's been "the Escalade Brand" for nan past mates of decades, coming offering six different models of nan monolithic SUV. There has been nary laurel-resting connected that, however, arsenic Caddy has besides leaned heavy into luxury electrics and maintained a toed successful nan h2o of nan performance-oriented sports sedan marketplace arsenic well. It besides offers a brace of crossovers—the XT4 and XT5—that are truthful aged they fart dust, but if they still sell, why termination them off?
The 2005 Cadillac CTS-V we looked astatine yesterday represented an earlier type of nan Caddy athletics sedan and, pinch 400 horses nether its hood, would astir apt beryllium a hoot and a half to drive. At $21,500, fewer of you were consenting to springiness that hoot, evidenced by it being voted down successful a stinging 75% 'No Dice' loss.
The Phantom Menace
Cadillac has precocious entered nan uber-luxury marketplace pinch the debut of nan Celestiq, a ample five-door sedan nan institution describes arsenic "custom commissioned", "hand-built", and arsenic such, "extraordinarily rare." The starting value for these haughty luxury cars is positioned, arsenic though they are portion of a caller lodging development, arsenic being "at debased $400K." To that, I say, clasp my beer.
This 2005 Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII Mansory laughs astatine nan luxury pretensions of different specified mortal-affordable cars. This is simply a car for nan uber-elite. Let's opportunity you are unfathomably rich | and unapologetically evil. Maybe for illustration a tech bro aliases an influencer who "just wants to unrecorded successful a world wherever everyone gets nan opportunity to beryllium pretty." Sheesh, what benignant of car would you bargain pinch each that money that would instantly fto group cognize you're a full monster erstwhile it comes to wealth? What could beryllium nan eventual look of nan immense gulf betwixt nan haves and nan have-nots? This Mansory Rolls is that expression. I consciousness for illustration it's costing maine money conscionable looking astatine it.
Man-sorry
This isn't your run-of-the-mill Phantom VIII. Mansory, nan Bavaria-based creation house, has had a manus successful modifying nan car. Now, galore of Mansory's modded cars and trucks are beautiful frightening, immoderate going truthful acold arsenic to beryllium nan automotive balanced of a vessel of syrup of ipecac. This 1 isn't anyplace adjacent arsenic garish aliases nightmare-inducing arsenic immoderate of nan company's different works, but it stands retired nonetheless.
The Mansory mods see forged c fibre connected nan hood, rockers, and doorway sills, nan second featuring nan Mansory nameplate. The interior is awash successful Tiffany Blue Connolly leather, and that colour has been replicated connected nan monolithic brake calipers down nan immense wheels. Lip spoilers connected nan footwear lid and beforehand fascia, on pinch achromatic chrome for nan Spirit of Ecstasy atop nan Parthenon grille, information retired nan updates.
Other luxury touches present see nan star-scape headliner (sneaky rear-seat passengers mightiness conscionable spot Uranus) and each conceivable comfortableness and convenience accouterment known to man. This is simply a immense automobile, weighing almost 3 tons and stretching complete 18 feet successful length. Despite that, it only offers seating for four, overmuch for illustration first-class accommodations connected nan airlines that don't effort to cram 'em in. And no, that achromatic screen connected nan driver's spot isn't 1 of nan mods, it's a dealer-added protection for erstwhile nan car needs to beryllium moved by immoderate undeserving but unluckily basal flunky.
An oasis of luxury
Mansory describes its massaged Phantom arsenic an "oasis of luxury," but these cars aren't conscionable rolling boudoirs. Rolls-Royce has worked pinch nan finest exertion genitor BMW has connected connection to make nan Phantom whisper-quiet and amazingly competent. Power for nan Phantom comes from a Roll-specific 6.75-liter twin-turbo N74 V12. That motor makes 563 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque connected premium (what else?) fuel. Behind that is an eight-speed ZF automatic tuned to make shifts arsenic imperceptible arsenic a sleeping kitten's fart.
Everything is held up by an aerial suspension, paired pinch progressive rollbars, rear-wheel steering, and a camera and GPS strategy that tin publication nan roadworthy up and tune nan thrust accordingly. According to nan sparsely worded ad, this Phantom sports a cleanable title and a specified 303 miles nether its apt Gucci belt. That makes it, for each intents and purposes, brand-spanking new, which is important arsenic nan rich | group don't for illustration utilized stuff. It makes them sad and vengeful, truthful it's champion to springiness them what they want.
Hair-raising
The asking value for this portion of nan bully life is $819,980, and if that doesn't scare you this All-Hallows' Eve, past ghosts and goblins don't guidelines a chance. Is this a car for nan immense mostly of us? Oh, hellhole to nan nah. Imagine driving thing arsenic costly arsenic this aliases moreover conscionable leaving it parked successful nan batch astatine nan Dollar Store while you banal up connected pauper chow and discounted fun-size candy. That would beryllium terrifying.
But location is simply a marketplace for cars of this ilk. It's conscionable not us. That's not going to extremity america from judging nan car, however, aliases nan weirdos for whom it was built.
What's your return connected this Phantom Mansory and that mortgage-lien-demanding $819,980 value tag? Does that look adjacent for personification who could really spend it? Or is that crazier than thing imagined by moreover H.P. Lovecraft?
You decide!
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