Rolls-Royce EX17 - Telegraph
Rolls-Royce has always had a problem with sports cars. Take the new £200,000 Ghost, launched at the recent Frankfurt motor show. With a 0-60mph time of 4.7 seconds, this 563bhp, 18ft-long behemoth will be fast, certainly. But a sports car?
Sadly, the sporting half of Britain's most distinguished car maker died in Britain's first air crash in 1910. Had he lived, Charles Rolls, gentleman, entrepreneur, pioneer aeronaut, racing driver and all-round daredevil would have been the perfect foil to Henry Royce's fastidious and cautious engineering excellence.
Rolls-Royce EX17 - Telegraph
Sadly, the sporting half of Britain's most distinguished car maker died in Britain's first air crash in 1910. Had he lived, Charles Rolls, gentleman, entrepreneur, pioneer aeronaut, racing driver and all-round daredevil would have been the perfect foil to Henry Royce's fastidious and cautious engineering excellence.
Rolls-Royce EX17 - Telegraph
