Why is it that Rolls Royce cars are expensive?
The Short Answer :Because nearly every task is completed by hand.Where in the modern world, most of the luxury car companies prefer to build their cars by robots, the Rolls Royce prefers to use humans instead.Let’s take an example,The grills on the front portion of the Rolls : No measurement instruments are used to build this grill, it's solely made by hands. It takes one man one day to build a Rolls Royce grill and 5 hours are spent polishing it.The Long Answer :[1] This is Goodwood plant, the birthplace of Rolls. All in all there are only 4 robots in this 7-acres massive plant, but even they can’t completely replace the human touch.Inside the car, the leather is had from Scandinavian bulls only. (Rolls Royce gets leathers from only those bulls that have been already killed for food.)The cars space frame chassis is first built in Germany and then shifted to Goodwood plant (England).Inside the paint expanse, it requires 22 steps, 5 layers of paint and seven days before the body is perfect and in total 45 kilograms of paint is sprayed onto the body shell. This takes almost a week to 10 days because, even the paint works are mostly done by hands & the last layer of paint is done by couple of robots.The process of polishing takes 5 hours.A special tradition is used named “Bookmatching”, where the veneers are given glossy finish to give the mirror look from each side.450 pieces of leather and 17 days are necessary for completing the interior.The star looking roof needs one of the best and skillful workers, who take about 12 hours to build one roof.The cars interior consists of 42 different parts of veneers totally handcrafted. The veneers are sourced from all over the world and many different woods are available.Each car takes weeks at least to create. The fastest car that Rolls can make is the Ghost, which takes a minimum of 30 days and 60 hands to make. The Phantom takes a minimum of 45 days. Some Rolls-Royce's can even take up to a year.Footnotes[1] A Day in Goodwood: We visit the Rolls Royce factory
How reliable are rolls royce cars?
Yes, they are very reliable cars, but they are also very expensive to fix and upkeep. A jaguar's tune up is over 1k, and they cost between 50-90k. A Rolls cost about triple that, can you imagine the up keep costs.
Rolls royce as first car?
Depends upon a few things... Where do you live? Sunny California? It may work there. But the Midwest? It's likely to be upside down in a snow drift during the first snowfall. Can you afford to repair it? Not only the cost of repairing it, but also consider that you may not have a Rolls repair shop in your neighborhood. If you've got a good mechanic who knows how to work on them, great. If your cousin Frankie "knows how to fix cars" this is not a good arrangement. Can you afford to insure it? I know what minimum coverage costs for a '92 Thunderbird, and I can't imagine what'd be for the Roller. But for a kid it's not gonna be cheap. Can you afford the fuel? This car gets about 9 MPG city and 12 highway. Ouch. For $18k you could do a lot worse, but buy something else with about 1/2 the money and keep saving for the Rolls and buy one after you've turned 25, when the insurance will be lower -- MUCH lower. Unless, of course, you already are 25. Whatever you do, I wish you well...
Which is the costiliest car in Rolls Royce and Ferrari?
I have actually owned both Ferrari and Rolls Royce, I have found at least with the models I have owned that Rolls Royce is much more reliable. The cost to keep up the Ferrari was ridiculous, after having a $9000. clutch job, I sold it. The Rolls Royce parts are also very expensive, but at least they last a long period of time, I actually sold my Rolls Royce with 140,000 miles on it, a 1988 Rolls Royce Corniche. For a daily driver I would recommend the Rolls, as an alternative- I would also say a Porsche or Acura NSX is higher for reliability- having owned both of those also.