The Bentley Azure

This cost over £210,000 when new. Not even houses have depreciated as much as this would have done. 0-60 in 6.1 seconds, it will comfortably waft you to over 2.15 times the National Speed Limit. And you'd still be able to hear Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, whilst you do. Well actually that might not be the case...Prokofiev was a bit of Communist, wasn't he. 'Hail To Stalin', and all that...Capitalists and Communists don't mix...

Funny how you think of these leviathan land yachts, and how they are often commandeered by someone who looks like Conrad Black, smokes cigars like Conrad Black, probably has as much money as Conrad Black used to have....and just wafts around between puffs on his Cohiba, listening to his classical music. But who would he listen too? Beethoven? No, no, NO! Beethoven was bipolar. It's even thought he wrote loveletters to his male friends. 'Ye GADS!' Plutocrats don't like that! Tut Tut! Mozart? Nope. Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. Plutocrats and capitalist titans have no concept of paupers....he certainly won't do. Can't puff your cigar to a poor man's tune. No. Widor? Liszt? Oh gosh, no? Ghastly French music.

No. If you own vast tracts of Sussex countryside, if you maintain a nice summer retreat on the East Coast near 'The Breakers'; you don't fly with the hoi-polloi in First. You have your own jet waiting at Northolt. Rich enough not to waste time. If you like driving yourself in your big Azure, the only composer of choice surely is Wilhelm Richard Wagner.

Big, bold, triumphant, dramatic music.

"Get out of the roooaaaaadddd little man PUM PUM PARAAA PUM PUM PARAAA PARAAA" [BEEEP BEEEEP!!!]

The Bentley Azure. The summer drive for the capitalist titan (whilst listening to 'Parsifal'). 1308 made.