Talk:Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé

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Is this just a VW EOS or BMW 3-series with different skin? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.110.237.188 (talk) 04:48, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

External link to be discussed[edit]

High resolution wallpapers of the Phantom Drophead Coupe

Link added by an anonymous contributor. Although interesting, this link seems purely commercial. Aeons | Talk 20:46, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Advertisin[edit]

This paragraph is not about the car and if used should be in a section on scale models.

Although a number of unauthorized scale models of the Phantom Drophead Coupe have been produced, Rolls Royce has awarded Exoto the exclusive right to make a 1:18 of the Phantom Drophead Coupe. The model will sell for US$498 making it one of the most expensive scale models. Minichamps, a German model maker has been given the right to produce a 1:43 scale model costing about US $70. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.10.170 (talk) 06:50, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rolls-Royce Hyperion Pininfarina Drophead Coupe??[edit]

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3758/Rolls-Royce-Hyperion-Pininfarina-Drophead-Coupe.html Should this be included with the Phantom drophead coupe? Or does it need its own article? --Ragemanchoo (talk) 03:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Joke?[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rolls-Royce_Phantom_Drophead_Coupé&direction=next&oldid=197097861

Added that only black will be available, sounds like a T. Ford joke, I would say citation needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.212.69 (talk) 18:00, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suicide Doors[edit]

The article uses the American slang term suicide doors to refer to this car's rear hinged doors. This term is not in use in Britain and, given that this is a British car, I feel the use here without further elaboration is inappropriate. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 20:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could we also add suicide doors to the description? I know it is not used in the UK but is easy for us to understand over here. --Akrasia25 (talk) 18:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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FANPOV? Or just ADVERT?[edit]

I really didn't know which template to attach to this thing. The former semed less unkind, and that's why I plumped for it in the end.

Here's just one section:

The interior is a modern avant-garde reinterpretation of the traditional English gentlemen's clubroom with stylistic influences ranging from minimalism to Art Deco. Perhaps the car's main design showcase is the yachting-inspired wood veneering that wraps around the 8/9ths top portion of the cabin from coach door to coach door and terminating in a crafted convertible tonneau cover, hand-finished in nautical-grade teak wood panelling sandwiched between an interior band of contrasting hardwood and the bare stainless steel motif of the car's upper exterior bodywork.

I've never been in a clubroom of any kind, let alone a "traditional English gentlemen's clubroom", and so can't comment on that. (But am I unusual in my ignorance?) I think I do have some understanding of "avant-garde", "minimalism" and "Art Deco". Each started off with a clear enough meaning, but I sense that each is now little more than a marketing term. Who applied them to the interior of this rather bloated automobile? Shouldn't it be, "According to [named pundit], the interior [blah blah]"? Haven't all more than averagely opulent British cars (Wolseleys, Jags, Bristols, Daimlers, Armstrong Siddeleys, Bentleys, etc) had wood veneering if not solid wood? How is this example inspired by yachting, rather than by, say, expectations of opulent British cars? What's the difference between a crafted cover and a non-crafted cover? (Without "crafted", might the reader imagine a rectangular tarpaulin?) What's the meaning of "nautical-grade" in this context, and who says it's of this grade?

I could say similar things about the other sections, too. But I'll spare you.

The aim of the article should be to inform readers, not to bemuse them. (They're then free to be bemused by the dispassionately presented, carefully referenced facts, plus perhaps some scrupulously attributed opinions.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:50, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Perhaps the car's main design showcase"? Yeah, that's encyclopedic. Surely much of this stuff is copyvio, also? I found it on a number of sites, of course copying each other, but none of them crediting Wikipedia. Please feel free to clean up drastically, User:Hoary. Bishonen | talk 09:18, 24 June 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks, Bishonen. I've cut some junk from it. -- Hoary (talk) 12:48, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]