"Black Ruby" Rolls-Royce coupe
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"Black Ruby" Rolls-Royce coupe
One-off Million-Dollar "Black Ruby" Rolls-Royce coupe up for sale
Funny thing about one-off creations. Sometimes you look at them and wonder why they only made just the one, and sometimes you thank your lucky stars they're not roaming the streets in packs. Whatever side of the fence you come down on with the DC Design Rolls-Royce coupe, that one and only example is now up for grabs.
The product of Indian coachbuilder Dilip Chhabria – also responsible for the Porsche Cayenne coupe and the $220k Tata Nano – "The Black Ruby" combines the grille of a Rolls-Royce with the shape of a Nissan Z, packing exotic-style scissor doors and the spirit of the Maybach Exelero. It was reportedly built for an Indian maharaja, and has been spotted as far away as London.
It's now available for purchase for the low-low price of £750,000, or about $1.2 million. Check it out in the gallery below for a closer look... if you dare.
Funny thing about one-off creations. Sometimes you look at them and wonder why they only made just the one, and sometimes you thank your lucky stars they're not roaming the streets in packs. Whatever side of the fence you come down on with the DC Design Rolls-Royce coupe, that one and only example is now up for grabs.
The product of Indian coachbuilder Dilip Chhabria – also responsible for the Porsche Cayenne coupe and the $220k Tata Nano – "The Black Ruby" combines the grille of a Rolls-Royce with the shape of a Nissan Z, packing exotic-style scissor doors and the spirit of the Maybach Exelero. It was reportedly built for an Indian maharaja, and has been spotted as far away as London.
It's now available for purchase for the low-low price of £750,000, or about $1.2 million. Check it out in the gallery below for a closer look... if you dare.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/23/o...pe-up-for-sal/
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Basically when a RR and a 370Z mate you get this lol. It's definitely one off that's for sure
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Front end-- loving it,, killer,, just absolutely breathtaking. Want to see more of this in the lineup
Sides and rear end- Oh,,Oh,,oh,,I'm sooo sorry. You werte good until I got a look at the rest of you and then WHY??? FAIL!!!!
Sides and rear end- Oh,,Oh,,oh,,I'm sooo sorry. You werte good until I got a look at the rest of you and then WHY??? FAIL!!!!
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Gorgeous automobile. Good point about how it'd be awful to see these things roaming the streets in packs. By the way, I just joined this site and I think it's awesome that the forum topics are so broad. Any other sites like this that I should check out?
Oh... and here's the $220,000 Tata Nano...
A Tata Nano that’s more expensive than a Lamborghini Gallardo? As outrageous as that might sound, Mumbai based D.C. Design’s version of the world’s cheapest car is set to cost $220,000 or 10 million rupees, which is quite some distance away from the 100,000 rupee (1 lakh) price the Nano was designed to fulfill.
“We would like to keep the cost low but with the technology and the amount of work we will be putting into the car, the 10 million rupee price tag will be justified,” said Dilip Chhabaria, head of the specialist car refitting group that has worked for Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Anil Kapoor
Much of D.C.’s Nano will be bespoke. The car’s basic silhouette will be retained, but everything else will go. The standard two-cylinder 624cc engine will be replaced by a 1.6-litre engine and the car will roll on 20-inch wheels. To accommodate the new engine, the rear seats will make way. D.C is targetting a top speed of 200 km/h.
“There will be a lot of tech wizardry in it, plenty of IT-enabled equipment. The idea is to give the world a feel of what India’s IT and automotive industries are capable of when working in synergy,” Chhabaria added.
The image above is of an earlier styling concept. The mega-money Nano prototype is expected in two months.
“We would like to keep the cost low but with the technology and the amount of work we will be putting into the car, the 10 million rupee price tag will be justified,” said Dilip Chhabaria, head of the specialist car refitting group that has worked for Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Anil Kapoor
Much of D.C.’s Nano will be bespoke. The car’s basic silhouette will be retained, but everything else will go. The standard two-cylinder 624cc engine will be replaced by a 1.6-litre engine and the car will roll on 20-inch wheels. To accommodate the new engine, the rear seats will make way. D.C is targetting a top speed of 200 km/h.
“There will be a lot of tech wizardry in it, plenty of IT-enabled equipment. The idea is to give the world a feel of what India’s IT and automotive industries are capable of when working in synergy,” Chhabaria added.
The image above is of an earlier styling concept. The mega-money Nano prototype is expected in two months.
