Rolls-Royce created a myth around it that it shouldn’t be driven but rather enjoyed instead. The tycoons that can afford cars with the Spirit of Ecstasy on the bonnet usually spend their time on the back seat, being driven around instead of the wheel. That might lead some to think that the cars are rubbish to drive around in. Nothing was ever less true.
Even though BMW took over the luxury brand more than a decade ago, the spirit of the cars first created by Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce is still very much alive in every car sold but adapted to the demands customers have these days.
Amongst them you’ll find a more than comfortable suspension (the best in the business by all accounts), bespoke interiors and materials as well as powerful engines. In that department, Rolls-Royce really made use of the BMW engineering.
Even though their cars today still have huge engines, they are also extremely more potent and reliable. The Rolls-Royce Wraith, for example, the car we’re looking at here features a BMW-sourced 6.6-liter V12 that’s twin-turbocharged, making 633 HP and 800 Nm (590 lb-ft) of torque. That sort of an plant is meant to be driven and felt from behind the wheel, not the back seat.
That’s exactly what the guys from Tax the Rich thought when they got their nifty hands on one of these Wraiths. They took it for a more-than-casual ride, in their own characteristic style. Basically they drove it like they stole it and we’re loving every second of it.
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