Rolls Dawn Fit and Finish!?

"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain) 06/26/2016 at 22:35 • Filed to: None

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I hope I’m not the only one that realized you see sky with the roof CLOSED on Dawn reviewed on Top Gear. Good luck when it drips on your $10,000 suit in the rain.

not for canada - australian in disguise > Nick Has an Exocet 06/26/2016 at 22:39

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It’s British. It’s a feature.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Nick Has an Exocet 06/26/2016 at 22:48

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I see what you’re talking about but it doesnt look like daylight to me.

Alfalfa > Nick Has an Exocet 06/26/2016 at 22:48

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I don’t know how it looks in the video or another screenshot, but that just does not look like sky to me.

Sam > Nick Has an Exocet 06/26/2016 at 22:49

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Let’s be honest. People that buy them won’t be driving them in the rain. They’ll be driving them like this -

Berang > Alfalfa 06/26/2016 at 23:10

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The sky looks like a lighter shade of headliner, everybody knows that.

Svend > Nick Has an Exocet 06/26/2016 at 23:20

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It looks like ambient light hitting chrome trim to me.

Besides every Rolls Royce is subjected to the monsoon test.

Granted the car in the video below is a Wraith but it’s still the same test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWDjGQdpBE

wiffleballtony > Nick Has an Exocet 06/26/2016 at 23:46

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Made in England, check.

Flavien Vidal > Alfalfa 06/26/2016 at 23:47

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It does move as if you could see through it on the video. As if there was a gap indeed.

Flavien Vidal > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/26/2016 at 23:47

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If you look at the video, you will notice it is daylight. It might have been a pre-production unit though...

Flavien Vidal > Svend 06/26/2016 at 23:50

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Nah, it’s really the sun coming through. It’s much more visible on the video as lightning change while it drives in front of trees.

Svend > Flavien Vidal 06/27/2016 at 00:08

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Which couldn’t possibly be the chrome reflecting what’s going on outside the window, just a large enough gap that light can clearly be seen but not penetrable from water from 73 high pressure jets during the monsoon test (which every Rolls Royce completes before leaving the factory).

My bad.

Flavien Vidal > Svend 06/27/2016 at 00:18

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Or it’s a pre-production vehicle that is not properly finished. If you have seen the video, it’s definitely not a chrome reflection, that happens to only reflect there, without ever moving. If you have not seen the video then, yes, sure this picture means nothing.

Svend > Flavien Vidal 06/27/2016 at 00:42

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I watched the video and just watched the episode on iPlayer.

Pixel > Nick Has an Exocet 06/27/2016 at 08:52

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There is a piece of chrome trim on the sun visor there, it is visible in Sam Stoner’s pic & the pic below.

The interior trim sticks out a few inches under the top, and the top rest on it. So even if the fit was terrible there wouldn’t be a gap there that sunlight could shine directly through.

Nick Has an Exocet > Pixel 06/27/2016 at 14:23

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So maybe it’s a reflection?

Nauraushaun > Svend 06/28/2016 at 08:47

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Wow :D