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Right. Trickle-down economy. Really helping poor people to finally acquire a Rolls-Royce. Just what every working-class family needs. Even an Aston Martin might probably make more sense.
@j_w_pepper Talking to yourself Sheriff?
You've got a point mentioning that talking to myself (I probably quoted my previous post instead of Gerard's by accident), though I'm not too sure how that came about. There probably was a different idea for the answer.
But other than that, I and my wife will probably keep our two (diesel-powered, six-cylinder) cars until they irreversably break down (or we can't afford the fuel any more!), and even if we had the money left over, we wouldn't spend it on a Rolls-Royce. Nor an Aston-Martin, by the way, which would be much more of a dream-car for me. And buying a battery-powered vehicle (of whichever make) is a long way away.
The rear looks ugly
and the interior lacks class.....
There's something Porsche 928 about the rear, I think it's in the shape of the side of the rear windscreen. It's got that coupe look, in spite of being an estate.
It's lots of bits stuck together, really- kind of reminds me of the SUX car in Robocop! :D The back end is a bit 928y, yeah; but it made me think of Jensen Interceptor more.
The blunt and sharp door pillars just don't work with the rather blobby rest of the car.. I think it's horrid.
(just because I love posting pictures) I think Porsche nailed it with the shape, it's the most elegant of the 3 cars. The Jensen always looked odd to me. The Cadillac's rear design does not work for me, the glass-dome is better suited for a 2-door GT format.
Here's a scan of a "Supercar" quartet game of mine from the late sixties. The Jensen had good chances to prevail against any other card if one could invoke its displacement. Even the twelve-cylinder Italian sportscars had a smaller engine than this one, using a Chrysler motor.
That being said, it was slower (at 225 kph) than my Mercedes E-Class 320 Diesel station wagon (2004 - 2016 in my possession) and my now-14-year-old BMW 330d convertible. And the price given on the playing card won't even buy your a decently equipped VW Golf these days.
Instead, these car (or ship, or airplane, or maybe even something else I never encountered) quartets went their own way. The goal was to win the entire set of cards. And you did so by challenging the other player(s) regarding one of the specifications of your car (or else) in question. In this case (Interceptor), and if it was your turn, you'd most likely say "displacement", and the other guy(s) would have to state what their current car(d) said to that. If your own car's displacement was bigger, you'd collect the cards of your opponents, and go on with your next card. If not, you'd lose yours to the one with the best of those involved, and it was that guy's turn to determine what the next criterion would be. Say if you had a Ferrari, you'd choose the number of cylinders (12...), or maybe the top speed. Ultimately, someone ended up with all cards in the game.
I still have been keeping several of those card sets for purely sentimental reasons. At least they don't take up a lot of room. I once posted a card from an airplane quartet (it was a B-58, by the way) on some other thread of this board (don't remember what it was) several years ago. The principle was the same. Bigger is better...long before anyone would have thought the opposite.
We played those card games basically during every break between classes when I was 11, 12 or 13 or so. I guess it stopped when we got interested in girls instead :-).
https://mi6community.com/discussion/18550/its-gr%CE%B5%CE%B5%CE%BA-to-me/p8
PS: OK, no need to tell me...I should have edited my previous posting for this rather than sending a different post :-)... but at least NickTwentyTwo responded in the meantime.
I think both are great in different ways. The Interceptor has a nicely odd style.
Both have Bond connections: Bond drove an Interceptor in William Boyd's novel SOLO, and a 928 actually stunt-doubled for Bond's Aston DB5 in Skyfall! :)
Clever, isn't it? Even ten years later I can't quite figure out how they did that.
The morning after :)
Oh, and there's another 928 in AVTAK, parked next to Cubby's Roller.
I agree, the Porsche’s design is more balanced-out, it just fits, the other ones seem to be a bit off, and they are also too blocky for my taste.
Lately blocky seems to be really in though, especially with electric cars.
little to add. The Rolls is more of the same when it comes to Rolls design, with strong herditary lines. The Cadillac is just..... big. And American. Could've been a KIA.