Like there's two fundamental problems with Rolls' design language. One is the attempt at visual continuity with the past which is just fully and completely self-parodic, skeuomorphisms on top of skeuomorphisms.
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Eventually the Phantom will be electric but it'll still have that big tall stupid grille and then Baudrillard's corpse will walk the earth letting us know that there's no more room left in hell.
jul 27, 2025, 2:43 am • 6 0 • view
The other big problem is that it's just trying to be the biggest, heaviest, most monolithic luxury sedan and so it simply beats every basic aesthetic principle about the proportions and shape of a sedan to death... a car this large should be an SUV, but it can't because that's not old-money enough.
jul 27, 2025, 2:43 am • 6 0 • view
This aesthetic is bad on a sedan but it becomes truly vomit-inducing when Rolls steps out of their lane and tries to make something 'sporty'.
jul 27, 2025, 2:51 am • 7 0 • view
oh my god I see what you're saying now this has no justification
jul 27, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
its british, so the underlying design ideology is "it should be able to run over The Poors with ease"
jul 27, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Like it is neat that you can literally have a rock band on the sidewalk outside of your car and only hear it when you will the windows down, but the car is just obnoxious. I miss when 3000 lbs was a heavy car.
jul 27, 2025, 4:49 am • 0 0 • view
this looks like you had a normal 1960s town car and then it got stung by 12 million bees. baffling combination of recognizable surface details with seemingly 0 effort to retain the actual vibe or core appeal
jul 27, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view