2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith First Test - Motor Trend
” That’s what the Rolls-Royce driving instructors told us as we were about to drive Wraiths onto the new Thermal Track in La Quinta, California, about 15 minutes from Palm Springs. (Well, one third of the track, as the Thermal Club hasn’t finished building the rest yet. The first is that a vehicle like the Wraith simply doesn’t belong on a track. The other would be, well, I’m not sure your wallet’s fat enough to fully grok it. A quick glance at the Thermal’s website reveals that its slogan is “Private Pavement. ” One has to imagine that anyone who buys a Wraith – base price $288,600, as tested $360,325 – views most of the world as private pavement. Cars this freakishly expensive remind me of when David Letterman was a guest on Jerry Seinfeld’s Web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. ” To which Letterman grins and replies, “We can change that, though, can’t we. ” The point of having too much money might be to remake the world how you’d like it. That sort of sentiment leads me to the night before we got to Thermal. I was invited to stay in a 5000-square-foot Italian-ish villa located in a private community/golf paradise called the Madison Club. I mentioned I like cigars and within five minutes I was holding a Cohiba (a real one), a Padrón, and a pretty decent Romeo y Julietta Churchill. Here’s the real kicker: One cigar had a Connecticut wrapper, one was a Habana, and the third was a Maduro. Source: www.motortrend.com
