Captain of industry who hates flying - what's your choice?

[Wheel_Turned_Out]

Meetings, functions, and of course a few illicit dealings here and there. You need a car to take you to all your many engagements, both at home and abroad - what do you choose?

Budget not an issue, a car from any time period you like. Can be chauffeur driven or you can drive it yourself so saloons/coupes/cabrios/bulletproof SUVs all welcome. You can be sensible and think about how easy it'd be to keep it reliable and on the road, or just presume there's a healthy stock of parts available when you need them and go with your gut.

But whatever it is you're going to have to be happy to cross continents in it. Often.

(Just an idle discussion on preferences, I know if you were a real moneybags you could just make most people come to you or take the private jet).

600 Pullman for me please and thanks.

[Haltamer]

Wheel_Turned_Out said:

Do mods actually read posts before moving them?

I'd go for whatever the latest Rolls offering is - There's not much to compare IMO! - Perhaps a Bentley for the weekend

(directly) German LWB offerings are all a bit boring

[Milemuncher]

M760i for me.

[anonymous-user]

[thebraketester]

RR Phantom Extended. Or a Merc Maybach.

[jamesbilluk]

Aston Martin Lagonda Taraf for me, just to be different..

[knk]

Range Rover

[Baldchap]

Zoom and an Elise.

[otolith]

Chauffeur driven luxury motorhome.

[Checkmate]

Still want to get there quickly. Still want to look like I have an idea or two. Has to be class.
Alpina B12.

[Mr Tidy]

I'd send one of the oiks if at all possible!

Still if being somewhere was unavoidable I'd have a Mercedes 600, but not a Pullman (unless I had some entertaining company)!

[Cold]

The back seat of a LWB Range Rover. Possibly slightly drunk, probably sleeping.

[waremark]

A long wheelbase Merc in a version engined for longer range rather than high performance - so much more discrete than a Rolls, nearly as quiet and smooth riding.

[wisbech]

Lexus LM (tarted up Alphard)



It is what the Captains of Industry in HK/ Southern China use for crossing the border to see their factories - basically an office suite on wheels.

[waremark]

However luxurious the interior of a minivan, I don't think they make minivans with the ride and refinement of luxury saloons. Do they?

[dvs_dave]

Has to be something like this, surely?

[Checkmate]

wisbech said:

Lexus LM (tarted up Alphard)



It is what the Captains of Industry in HK/ Southern China use for crossing the border to see their factories - basically an office suite on wheels.

Yeah, but look at it. Everyone is going to laugh at you when you clamber out of that thing. It's gopping.
The very notion also has more than a hint of that guy in the pub who had a BlackBerry as a personal phone, and one of those bluetooth earpiece things always in their ear, despite nobody ever talking to them.
As a captain of industry you don't need to be doing all the office stuff on the way anywhere, you are always prepared as it is your business, and you have subordinates to do the boring stuff for you. You want to look successful and like someone that those you are meeting want to do business with, not like someone who has had to borrow the nanny's people carrier.

[otolith]

Depends how insecure you are I guess!

[Kawasicki]

waremark said:

A long wheelbase Merc in a version engined for longer range rather than high performance - so much more discrete than a Rolls, nearly as quiet and smooth riding.

By smooth riding do you mean underdamped/nausea inducing?

[donkmeister]

dvs_dave said:

Has to be something like this, surely?

That was my thinking - if said Captain of Industry has time to spend sat in a car, a better option is lounging 10mph slower in something he can work, eat, sleep and poop in, with a small number of staff to accompany him. Do the traveling at night, be where he needs to be by morning. Basically Air Force One / VC-25A on wheels.