>>A part of it difference in thinking is probably fuel price - must be double the US price in the UK. But non-US models (ok - not European) seem to me to be just as good, if not better, on acceleration, top speed and handling.
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>>Heard from a friend of mine in Germany over Christmas - he went out to change his two-year old, top of the range Mercedes for a later model and came home two hours later with a Roller. I asked him if he'd part exchanged the Mercedes - but, no - said there were some places where a Rolls wasn't suitable so decided to keep them both!
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>As this was about a german; "Roller" went into the german decoding matrix, which there describes Vespa-type 2wheelers, not Emily bearers... Made even minimal sense under fuel cost aspects ;-)

That was my term not his :-}

Your right about fuel consumption though - I drove one around the U.S. and got about 12mpg. Upside was that when we were done I sold it in the states and made a £10k profit (even allowing for shipping costs) - almost enough to cover the speeding tickets I collected :-}