Originally Posted By: G-MAN
Originally Posted By: hattaresguy
Originally Posted By: G-MAN
Originally Posted By: hattaresguy
Rolls Royce still does custom cars, as does Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley, and Zonda.
If your willing to blow a few bucks a lot of manufactures will customize for you.
This is not a customization of an exiting model. This is a complete one-off car and only two were made.
That's what a custom car is. Although that particular RR looks like a stretched model of whatever they were making at the time with different sheet metal and I'm sure a different interior. I'm sure it still has the 6.75L V8 under the hood with the GM transmission and all typical RR running gear.
Every Mercedes 600 LWB ever made was custom in some way, some more than others. Its not uncommon for Royal households to have some very unique features. Like for example the Royal family of Thailand if I remember correctly has an entire fleet of custom Mercedes that they have ordered from the factory over the past 90 years. They also have a custom shade of white that Mercedes will only use on their cars.
Their is a reason that 97% of world leaders roll S class, with Rolls Royce and Cadillac making up the rest. They know how to cater to people.
Maybach for example, you could order one pretty stock, or do some radical stuff if you wanted to pay. The sky is the limit, and I know a few went out the door for well over $1m each.
Every 600 still had the same sheetmetal; it was still a Mercedes 600, albeit with custom features for each owner.
The RR Majestic was indeed built on a stretched Silver Spur chassis (just as RR's "regular" stretch limo was), but the body by Bertone was totally unique. (And when you consider that the Spur is a monocoque, you realize just what a project the Majestic was.) I've never heard of Mercedes (either now or back in the 90s) building a totally one-off car for even their richest customers that had a unique body. I don't even think Bentley or RR will do that now.
Most people don't opt to change the body, but again, you can get whatever you want and its not uncommon at that level. Mercedes and RR have been playing this game for a long time:
Most of the really high end stuff goes to the Middle East or Asia, I don't think their are to many Americans that want to roll around in million dollar plus limos.
Their are always a few Italian companies at Pebble Beach advertising extensive body modifications.
