Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe

Marketing statistics say that on average, Rolls-Royce's modern clients own 7.6 cars, 4.9 properties, are 17% likely to have a private jet (something like Bombardier Challenge 300 or Dassault Falcon 50, not an Airbus) and 4% likely to have a yacht. Out of 6.7 billion people in the world, for Rolls-Royce to break even, they only need to sell cars to 800 of them each year. That's easy when you produce cars as desirable as this.

The key difference between this and and the standard Phantom isn't the roof. It isn't the two fewer doors. No. The difference is that with the standard Phantom, you get driven in it. With the drophead, you drive it.

£305,000 is the base price, additional options like the brushed steel, bare bonnet, scream 'arriviste' and all in, fully loaded, you could be parting with another £100,000 more. The 12mpg is truly awful and Hummer-esque, however, those who own one of these, tend not to worry too much about the environment. Like that common adage of how the richest 10% own 90% of the world's property and resources, those wealthy enough to park one of these in the garage of their Knightsbridge mews, own the environment.