Re: Rolls Royce Silver Shadow/Spur/Sprit advice

unit244@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> Finally, can you use a Shadow, Spur, Sprit or Corniche, as an everyday
> driver? Are they reliable, etc? (I am not concerned with MPG)

They're a British, mass produced, car of the 1970s.

And pushing 30.

Do you REALLY think they're going to be reliable?

If you really must - and I suppose from a BMW, a Rolls Royce is about 
the only way the nouveau-riché can go - then the pick of the bunch for 
reliability, image (though, I'm afraid no-one will know you're loaded 
instantly as they would with the Spirit of Ecstacy atop your grille) is 
the Bentley Eight - a "sportier" Mulsanne which was actually a little 
more basic, with a mesh grille, and aimed at the 40-something market.

It is, I'm afraid, a Bentley and not a Rolls Royce (really, one feels 
Shadow/Spirit etc models are worthy of the title "Roller") - but it is 
often overlooked, and good value for the sort of car you're looking at.

If you want British ambience, I think the later (mid 90s) Jaguar XJs 
offer better VFM.

Richard

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