The ‘Ugliest’ Rolls-Royce in History May Be Worth a Second Look
The overpriced Camargue was the first Rolls-Royce designed by Italians—and prices are on the rise.
The Rolls-Royce Camargue offered automatic air conditioning, extremely generous interior space, and three additional cubic feet of luggage capacity (for 25 cubic feet in total) over the Rolls-Royce Corniche.
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This year, Rolls-Royce is celebrating the 110th anniversary of the inception of its goddess-like muse, the Spirit of Ecstasy.
The bronze sculpture of a woman in a gown that flows behind her like wings first officially adorned the front of a Rolls-Royce coach on Feb. 6, 1911. Subsequently molded in everything from 24-karat gold to frosted crystal, the figure has withstood more than a century beautifying Britain’s most prestigious luxury cars—even the more obscure ones such as the Rolls-Royce Camargue. More than anything, this car requires her to act as a badge to alerts the onlooker that this, too, is a Rolls-Royce, even if it isn’t quite as handsome as one might expect.