The Rolls Royce Dawn is the Best British Car the Germans Can Build
Автокөліктер мен көлік құралдары
Review and test drive of a 2018 Rolls Royce Dawn
Review by Bill of Curious Cars
Vehicle is privately owned
Videos mentioned in this review:
2012 Rolls Royce Ghost:
• This Rolls-Royce Ghost...
1996 Rolls Royce Silver Spur:
• 1996 Rolls-Royce Silve...
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I do love Bill's jaundiced view on life. Very dry humour which goes down well here in the UK. I don't watch these reviews for the car, but rather for Bill's acerbic rants.
@thedpsemporiumofdrumtracks5648
5 ай бұрын
He's a national treasure here in the US. I'm convinced he could do a very detailed review on a 1980s garden hose if it ever came down to it.
@Quesadila21
5 ай бұрын
The cars are just a bonus, and a proper excuse to listen to and enjoy the ramblings of an old man.
@BlacKnightRising
5 ай бұрын
oh for the Love of God...
@nekite1
5 ай бұрын
@@BlacKnightRising 🤣🤣🤣
@jonwinship9099
5 ай бұрын
Weaving humor with a voluminous vocabulary makes Bill a delight.
Bill the kind of guy to do burnouts outside a retirement home.
@donaldblock4475
5 ай бұрын
What’s wrong with that? Lol
@MuzixMaker
5 ай бұрын
To cheering crowds.
@danielknepper6884
5 ай бұрын
We love bill. He gives zero craps about anything❤😂
@TRDOffRoad2020
5 ай бұрын
Retirees are hard of hearing anyway 😎
@johnpartipilo1513
5 ай бұрын
Is it wrong?
The flasher reference to the doors being open. 🤣🤣
Rolls Royce styling has gone from “Yes of course dear boy I have money. Always have.” to “Brah check it out! Look at how much money I have!”
Bill has the greatest voice, should have done a career in radio. I love his outlook and his car reviews and am glad to see him still going!
Bill you forgot the button on the A pillar to close the door...one can't possibly close one's own door........
@eaunan
2 ай бұрын
...yes, that's what I was thinking, too! 👍 ...the DOOR buttons (driver/passenger) are visible at 24:00 at bottom of A pillar (or on flat portion above the speaker)...
I don't even have a driver's license 😂 but I'm addicted lmao .. Bill your awesome 👏👏
@homiesenatep
5 ай бұрын
Get your license man ✊
@narrowhwy114
5 ай бұрын
...and have Bill as the driving instructor! 😂
Now you're talkin! Would love to see a Bentley Brooklands or Mulsanne too.
In the case of closing the wide opening doors: there is a button that does it for you so you don’t have to reach out so far.
@markremy4946
5 ай бұрын
Anything for the lazy pampered rich
@CaseOhfoodeater
3 ай бұрын
@markremy4946 rich people are not lazy. It takes alot of work with out sleep
I love how Bill takes a supremely classy vehicle and sullies it a bit with the whole flasher reference! And of course reading the brochure's almost smarmy description of the car. Classic Bill! Thanks for another entertaining review. Enjoy the weather next week, Bill! ❄
Bill. The Man. The Myth. The Legend. 🏆
This dude, with the Chambermaids scenarios😂😂🎉
The Ghost and Dawn are no longer built on the 7-series platform. All Rolls-Royce models are now built on bespoke platform like the Phantom.
The still shot of Harvey Korman from "Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" cracked me up. My dad loved that movie.
@COJones43
5 ай бұрын
I love that movie, even though I’ve seen it numerous times it still cracks me up!
@LongIslandMopars
5 ай бұрын
@@COJones43 Same here!!
@thesolver1970
5 ай бұрын
You mean Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus. Harvey Korman wasn't in the movie.
@LongIslandMopars
5 ай бұрын
@@thesolver1970 Thank you. All these years I never paid attention to the credits and thought it was Harvey Korman.
Poor Bill! At one point he is saying how he has been crushed under the shoe of the world and then in the background you hear a weed whacker, a lawn mower and an airplane all at the same time.
Good day Bill, I hope you've been keeping well.
“It’s no fun being poor when you’ve got a natural talent for improperly using wealth.” Bill channeling Winston Churchill while reviewing a Rolls-Royce. lol
@johnnyrocket4357
5 ай бұрын
Increase Bill's pay grade for producing such a humorously aspirational expression that disparages money and how it brings out the worst in us. Love it!
I love when he complains about the weather!
Bill is the type of guy that would recommend the movies "Goodfellas, "Casino, and Scarface" as role models.
@BeauQuillen
5 ай бұрын
THE WORLD CHICO ITS YOURS
@TheLizardKing1967
5 ай бұрын
lol
@TRDOffRoad2020
5 ай бұрын
@@TheLizardKing1967 Jim....is that you? 😉😎
@ulflei
5 ай бұрын
He also has the face for radio :}
@curtiszzzchicago
5 ай бұрын
This for sure. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKiFrNClmbKpcrQ.htmlsi=AXm2zk4U_vnmolR4
When you showed the flasher you should have written Curious Cars on the blacked out square. :)
The $10,000 umbrella should be an option !
Bill, the flasher reference and graphics were the best ever!! 🤠
Takes on the profile of a flasher 😂 Bill you never cease to amaze and entertain us
I worry about a lot of things. Now I have to worry about psycho ducks? I'm glad your friend healed, and I thank him for sharing this interesting car with all of us. The worst a duck ever did to me was peck at my leg and shoe.
@COJones43
5 ай бұрын
Be thankful. I once had a duck shit on me while flying overhead. 🦆💩
@MisterMikeTexas
5 ай бұрын
@@COJones43 I had a bird 🐦 shit on me on my 34th birthday while I was out walking, back in the late 1990s. ☹️
@Future-Classic-Comics
5 ай бұрын
@@MisterMikeTexas I read all 3 of your comments while doing a shit, and they're very funny and endearing. I once got geese shit on my hands on a school trip. That's about it no duck related trauma.
Hello Bill from Ron in a very wet and cold Manchester England. What a fantastic car to review the Rolls-Royce Dawn which was launched in 2015. In 1998 BMW paid £40 million to Rolls-Royce PLC who built engines for aeroplanes for the rights to use the Rolls-Royce name
Those start up chimes are sexy. I got a little excited. lol. She is such a beautiful car.
Firing the Gardner with the pregnant wife… LMAO
21:32 Bill how dare you close your own door in a Rolls Royce! There's a little control panel in the left and right corner of the dash to close the door automatically.
Rolls Royce!! Now you're talking MY kind of car!! Excellent video, as usual, Bill !
30 minutes! That is short for a Bill video! 😁
Bill the type of guy to Bump out Black Sabbath on the way to a funeral- straighten his tie and switch of the Car stereo *just* before anyone noticed! 😂
Wow what a wild car. Thanks Bill, we all appreciate your efforts!
Love your reviews. Informative and definitely entertaining!
I am sure that there is a button to close that door. There has to be a power self-closing door button for each side.
Thanks for the dedication to this review, Bill. We appreciate it!
Back to Back!
Both informative and absolutely hilarious. Many thanks!
Thanks for the video Bill!
Amazing review, and your humour is priceless...
Dawn is amazing car 😊 thanks a lot for this video
Thanks Bill. One of your best
When I first looked at the thumbnail I thought it was a Chrysler 300!
Thanks for this one, Bill !... Yeah.. I'm simply trying to decide which color combination to go with on my next RR order.. Decisions decisions !!
Really loved it Bill despite the rain.
Thanks Bill now I feel good that for a short time I have Arrived !!
I love how the fan in the front shot where you revved the engine is louder than the engine very rolls royce
24:45 Truer words have never been spoken.
Nicely done!
Hey Bill, wow, a Rolls Royce!!! Bringing some British (?) class to the channel!! Thanks for the weather report!! 👍👍🙂
As always, Bill, love your humor!! And what a trooper, filming in the rain! The front of this car reminds me of a Chrysler 300.
@resomony
5 ай бұрын
And the tail lights look like the ones on my old Cavalier
This satisfied my curiosity, thanks.
There's an incredible amount of profit made on these cars. It has mostly 7 series parts and costs 3x the amount. And they still make money on the 7 series as well. Certainly a beautiful car but I just couldn't justify the cost as the one off over engineered cars of the past are gone. Cheers!
@mavisbeeswax8136
5 ай бұрын
You'd think British management could manage to make a profit on 7 series with a drinks cabinet... but ohhh no. Haha😅. They are expert...at being losers.😮
Thank you Bill!
Totally gorgeous inside and out. Woww. Only ever seen one RR in person and I live in an affluent area
Forget about the Mansory edition, the Gucci edition and the Pucci edition. If Rolls Royce wants to inject a little class into its lineup, they ought to just make a Bill edition. Big cigarette lighter, max capacity ashtray, laser guided bird detector, Dalton Abatement System and...🤔... for the piéce de resistance...🤔...uh...a glass of coronavirus whiskey as a hood ornament. 🥃 ...or miniaturized version of Marianne from back in the day. Whataya say Rolls? Ya got it in ya?
@COJones43
5 ай бұрын
And also a crystal decanter of coronavirus whisky and two crystal glasses in the console.
12:45 U ARE HILARIOUS!!!!😂. The bad neighborhood reference😂
Thank you for standing in the rain to do this review.
I personally prefer the stand alone Grille rather than the inset one.
The finest cows educated at Cambridge 😂😂😂. Love the video on something I will never own.
@jonwinship9099
5 ай бұрын
Oxford got snubbed.
U R the best talent on KZread ! 🎉
Bill does car reviews? I just listen to the weather and the reports on vicious man eating sparrows, rabbits, and cats.
I keep thinking Ford Crown Victoria every time I see that rear view! 😂 All that money for the rear end of a Crown Vic. 😂
This is Top 10 Bill material.
Fun content !!!!
Sweet ride. But if I had it first thing I’d do is disable those bloody chimes.
I’m here for today’s weather report!
Bill the kind of guy to leave a funeral home a 1 star review for not being “lively enough”
To me this is a Masterpiece. Rolls Royce should consider offering a Masterpiece option group to further differentiate themselves from those other plebian offerings from lesser-than automobile companies.
You are cracking me up doing this in a rain storm.. LOL
sooooo EN-TER-TAIIIIIN-ING *lol* I LOVE your videos !!! Best wishes from Germany
Awesome motorcar, no doubt. Not a fan of the suicide doors, though. Thanks Bill, another great presentation!!
Funny guy. Great video.
Bill they smart , all doors need to open like that on all cars ❤
Keep'em coming! Hilarious!
I haven't googled it but I'm pretty sure that Bentley had an option for a £180k clock on the dash... and I'd be surprised if you can't get similar in an RR.
The level of professionalism in your videos is impressive. You have a polished and well-produced content.
Achtung. Just stunning.
OMG! What a car!!! 😍
“Only the poor and very rich smoke”…Classic Bill.
When you yell at the binging sound, it should play you a message about bullying and inclusivity.
*Bill is too hilarious. Would love to have a beer with him lol*
❤cool Bill 😎
Thought depreciation would've hit these but even with 50k miles these things still command $200k, low miles still asking 350-400 😮
@NaNa-wj8tw
5 ай бұрын
No chance. This isn't a Bentley old boy😂
@Mabeylater293
Ай бұрын
How reliable are these rolls Royce’s including the phantom?
You sir are finally reviewing one of my biggest dream cars! Love it!😃😀😄😁😉😏🖤💜🤍
The turn off - At the rear, looking at the rear of this car the shape of the taillights and how they wrap around along with the chrome strip above the license plate resembles very much the rear of the 1990/91 Ford Crown Victoria. And vintage it is especially those buttons under the air vents on the dash that look like mini jukebox selectors at a greasy spoon diner. Oh, I forgot. That chrome circular I guess speaker cover in front of the door handle - Grandma had those on her colored matched radio and toaster from the 40s. Ending with this, the selector switch for the headlights. What the hell is that? Reminds me of a knob on a toaster. Imagjne that.
@santaclause2875
5 ай бұрын
Hilarious!!!!
I’m really surprised that they don’t have a button inside that closes the door for you
Another great review as usual...love the german poser in the English trench..very funny
Gave up counting them in South Florida over Christmas.
quite the contrast between this car and the 68 chevelle ss 396 in the last video . if i had to pick this or the ss 396 i would for sure go for the chevelle
A coop is where you keep chickens, dear boy. It's a coupé.
The press release was was wild 🤣
7:53 Ironically, thats an electric converted Rolls Royce by Lunaz (on the licence plate) :D
Is the powertrain two bored-out (ie. an extra 50ml per pot) stock BMW 3.0 liter straight-6 engines, arranged in a V?? _Et voilà..._ a 6.6 liter V12.
Just one question, can you make the horn do farting sounds? If not I don’t want one! I want to be able to pull up to the front of the country club and summon the valet with farting noises.
The retractable Spirit of Ecstacy is worthy of Q Branch...
I might be able to bring myself to buy an older, mechanical RR. But, no way would I buy one of these modern, RR gizmowagens.
How many Canadians can fit in the back seat? Any good gun storage spots? I have so many questions…
That's lovely
This car is built in the UK by British people, just because they put a German engine in it does not make it a German car. I have a Maserati with a Ferrari engine and a German ZF Transmission. Does that make it German? No.
Bill, 1). I missed the back seat Canadians ? -- 2). The car is Huge - But: Still at least 16 inch "shorter" than an early 70s Eldorado or Mark IV. They were even longer and wider than the RR Phantom, ft. an 8.2 L ( ! ) V8 motor ... and 3). The erotic brochure is only fitting for a car that has a "Spirit of Ecstacy" hood ornament, lol.