You know, if you spent $500 a month or $6,000 a year maintaining this car, that’s less than the car payment on a new Toyota. If you spent $1000 a month, or $12,000 a year maintaining this car, that’s less than the car payment on a Lexus, BMW, Mercedes etc. None of those cars will put the smile on your face that this one does, and 5 years from now this one will be worth what you paid for it while they will be worth 20% of what they cost new. Likely you spend less in a year on this car than ONE payment on a new Rolls Royce Ghost. Those are some pretty impressive economics!
This car had $11k worth of deferred maintenance and repairs needing sorting when I bought it. I worked with my mechanic to prioritize the order in which to take care of things, and in the past 2 years, I've invested about $8k in working down that list, plus some other things that came up. I think it's got about another $3k worth of lower priority items to address. Given what I paid for the car, I think this has been a bargain to own and drive one of the finest luxury cars ever built. And, my old Volvo cost me $2500/year to maintain. This car will probably cost about twice that once everything is taken care of. I think that's great value for money!
Thank you for the wonderful video. I'm driving a Silver Spirit in Japan, but none of the room lamps light up. I have a suspicion about the fuse. Please tell me where the fuse is.
Some one driving a Rolls and not knowing where the fuse box is….or how to do a simple search to figure it out….is the most Rolls Royce owner thing ever.
I absolutely love it! It's not quite like sitting in one, myself, but close. Deliciously fun, thanks!
Great David.
Thanks, Mitch! I'm having as much fun editing as I do driving the car. Who'da thunk it?
You know, if you spent $500 a month or $6,000 a year maintaining this car, that’s less than the car payment on a new Toyota. If you spent $1000 a month, or $12,000 a year maintaining this car, that’s less than the car payment on a Lexus, BMW, Mercedes etc. None of those cars will put the smile on your face that this one does, and 5 years from now this one will be worth what you paid for it while they will be worth 20% of what they cost new. Likely you spend less in a year on this car than ONE payment on a new Rolls Royce Ghost. Those are some pretty impressive economics!
This car had $11k worth of deferred maintenance and repairs needing sorting when I bought it. I worked with my mechanic to prioritize the order in which to take care of things, and in the past 2 years, I've invested about $8k in working down that list, plus some other things that came up. I think it's got about another $3k worth of lower priority items to address.
Given what I paid for the car, I think this has been a bargain to own and drive one of the finest luxury cars ever built.
And, my old Volvo cost me $2500/year to maintain. This car will probably cost about twice that once everything is taken care of. I think that's great value for money!
Thank you for the wonderful video. I'm driving a Silver Spirit in Japan, but none of the room lamps light up. I have a suspicion about the fuse. Please tell me where the fuse is.
Thanks for the question. I am not sure where that fuse is. I'll check my owner's manual later today and post after I've checked.
Some one driving a Rolls and not knowing where the fuse box is….or how to do a simple search to figure it out….is the most Rolls Royce owner thing ever.