Rolls Royce Camargue.
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This is an unusual model in the history of the company. This product company addressed to customers who prefer to manage Rolls-Royce independently and wanted to combine traditional quality with an unusual and stylish body. Therefore, for the first time in the history of the company, Rolls-Royce instructed the development of the body of a foreign company. She became the Italian Designer Bureau PinInfarina.
The car was developed on the basis of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and had a similar technical stuffing: a V-shaped eight-cylinder engine (6750 cm3), an automatic gearbox transmission from General Motors and an independent suspension. The car developed the maximum speed of 119 mph / hour.
Camargue was released only in a two-door version. The car turned out to be long and wide. Length - 5170 mm, width - 1920 mm, height - 1470 mm. Wheel base 3048 mm. There were four separate seats in the cabin. The model was equipped with advanced for the time with multi-level air conditioning.
And, although Rolls-Royce never considered a new model as a "sports", always subconsciously customers were confident that Camargue had a longer character than other cars in this series. But still, its characteristics and handling practically did not differ from any other family of the family.
Some time Camargue was the most expensive British car. The cost of Camargue in the year of the debut was 29 250 fs, while Silver Shadow cost 15,500 fsp, and mini 850 is only 1184 fs.
This is partly due to the process of producing the car. So, for example, since 1978, Prased Steel was supposed to supply ready-made bottom of the bodies of Motor Panels to Coventry, which manufactured the body itself and sent them to the Cru. There they passed anti-corrosion treatment, painting and entered into the assembly shop. Sales of the new model went sluggish, and the company moved to the construction of Camargue only on special orders.
In the early 1980s, the price has increased to 83 thousand pounds. As a result, a year was able to sell only 20-25 cars, which, by the standards of Rolls-Royce, did not ensure profitability. And in 11 years only 531 copy was sold.
In 1986, they released the last series of 25 snow-white coupe with the interior of red skin on the order of the American Rolls-Royce dealer, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the sale in the United States of the first car brand. This series was completed with a whole set of luxurious attributes from the phone and leather case to silver fountain pen and silver plated flashes with the owner's monogram.