The area formerly known as the Brecon Beacons was visited T recently by the new Prince and Princess of Wales. Apparently their cavalcade of limousines wasn't quite as impressive as ours, though.
Standards matter - and if not the royal family, you can always depend on Autocar to set them.
Well, at least, as far as transport is concerned.
If this comparison exercise had been an owners' club meeting instead, none of us assembled participants would have even approached the expected dress code requirements. Luckily, we had a job to do - and it was thanks to a reader whose name you will know.
Formula 1 racer turned motorsport magnate Jonathan Palmer consumes his weekly issue of Autocar as avidly as you do, and at a recent meeting with us he bemoaned the state of ride comfort in modern cars - that it hadn't advanced as quickly as so many other dynamic facets.
"Why don't we get a bunch of the most comfortable and very best-riding new cars together, along with something much older," he suggested, "and take a considered view on the state of the art?" How could we decline? The standard-bearers we assembled, in descending order of price, were the recently updated Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII, Bentley Flying Spur V8 Azure, Range Rover P440e Autobiography and BMW i7 xDrive60 M Sport. Some 10 tonnes and nearly a million quid's worth of brand-new, super-luxury metal, then (and we were still upstaged, as Dr P arrived in his no-doubt-fine-riding Agusta helicopter).
Another reader and friend of Autocar, Joe Ward, generously brought along his recently restored 1964 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III as a yardstick by which to measure the accomplishments of the new boys.
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